Resources

Sister Blogs:

•  aging, ageism, and feature films:  oldwomaninfeaturefilms.wordpress.com
•  Mary Beth Danielson:  www.marybethdanielson.com
•  Gwen McCauley:  gwenmccauley.ca | Aging and sexuality, tours of Portugal
• Lisa Savage:  went2thebridge.blogspot.com  | Peace and justice issues
• Walker Thornton:  walkerthornton.com  |  Sexuality, relationships, women’s health, aging

Online | Websites, Blog and Facebook Groups

• Time Goes By:  
• Sageplace:

• 70 Candles:

• Next Avenue on PBS: Next Avenue is public media’s first and only national service for America’s booming 50+ population

• The 70-Something Blog:  
• Elder Activists:
• Boomers:  
• Women’s Red Tents and Temples Worldwide Group on Facebook
• Wild Women Sisterhood on Facebook

Books | Non-Fiction:

• Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Aging, Lynn Segal
• The Gift of Years: Growing Old Gracefully, Joan Chittister
• Composing a Further Life, Mary Catherine Bateson
• An Unknown Women; The Stations of Solitude, both by Alice Koller
• A Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• The Second Half of Life, Angeles Arrien
• The Crone: Women of Age, Wisdom and Power, Barbara Walker
• The Journals of Solitude, May Sarton
• Being Mortal, Atul Gawande—an enlightened approach for facing one’s mortality.
• Wise Woman (Photographs of Older Women), Joyce Tenneson
• The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion—coming to terms with widowhood.
• The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron—using journaling to unlock your dreams.

Books | Fiction:

• All Passion Spent, Vita Sackville-West
• Marrakesh in the short story collection, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You, Alice Munro
• An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine—older women supporting one another.
• The Memoirs of a Survivor, Doris Lessing

Humor & Articles

• I’m Too Young to Be Seventy, Judith Viorst
• I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Nora Ephron
• “My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age, Grace Paley, The New Yorker, June 17, 2002

Films & TV Series

• Evening, (2007), Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep –  A dying woman reflects on her past.
• Strangers in Good Company (1991), Canadian – Eight elderly women come together to fend for themselves when the bus they are traveling in breaks down.
• Away from Her (2007), Julia Christie –  A woman’s decent into Alzheimer’s

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Judi Dench, Maggie Smith – Elderly people’s retirement adventures in India.
• Amour, (2012) French.  Jean Louis Trintignant, Emmanuella Riva – An elderly man cares for his dying wife.
• Grace and Frankie (2015)  Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlison.  Friendship that develops between two 70ish women post divorce.
• Call the Midwife (2012)  Midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950’s.  Central to the story are several remarkable older nuns.