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Late in Life

Coming into My Own at 60

GUEST POST by TONI KIEF The day I turned sixty I collided with a shocking revelation. I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up! I was single again, living alone and on my way to meet my women friends for vodka and cake. The thought wouldn’t stop; it kept repeating. I drove to the party, and took inventory.  At eleven I wanted [...]

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Dusting Off Your Dreams

I have a friend who’s been telling me for years that she’s going to take Italian lessons.  Another friend has a long-standing dream to visit Japan. For just as long every time I pass an art supply store I revisit my dream of taking up watercolors. We’re all members of the late-in-life dream club whose engine is stalled.  But it doesn’t [...]

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The Older Woman’s New Power

Older women are feeling powerful as they discover a voice they didn’t possess in their previous decades.  They’re speaking up with a boldness and confidence unknown to their younger selves. Writer and blogger, 80 year-old Elaine Soloway has shed her passive aggressive self to take on verbal bullies.  The popular Australian writer, [...]

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