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Is a Renegade Retirement Right for You?

GUEST POST by SUSAN SAINT-ROSSY   If you were super rich, and had all the support you wanted from family, friends, and society (no matter what), what bold thing(s) would you choose to do with the next phase of your life? This may sound like a frivolous question, but for some women, it is THE essential question in retirement. Finding the [...]

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No Sex for Me

During a recent Sunday brunch with two single women friends both, like me, in their ‘70’s the conversation turned to sex, but not in the same way it did when we were decades younger, sharing juicy tidbits about our sex lives. This time the conversation centered on how sex had lost its appeal. One friend, B confessed to losing interest [...]

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When You Long For an Apology . . .

Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking new book, The Apology opens with these words: I am done waiting. My father is long dead.  He will never say the words to me.  He will not make the apology.  So it must be imagined. For it is in our imagination that we can dream across boundaries, deepen the narrative, and design alternative outcomes. Ensler [...]

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Embracing Your Aging Body Can Be A Radical Act

Can you imagine a scenario where you, a vital older woman, actually liked your body instead of making it a battleground where you fret over your weight, wrinkles, and saggy boobs?  What if food wasn’t the enemy and sleepless nights had their own advantages?  What if you had practices for honoring your body? Body acceptance for the older [...]

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Home Alone at 70-Something

GUEST POST by TESSA CALVERT-LINNELL   Close the front door behind me, then turn on the lights and put the shopping away. Nothing will move in this house – not a chair or a spoon – unless at the touch of my hand. Nothing breathes but me – except for a few plants in pots and the occasional spider, because I’m one of millions of [...]

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