Book Club: Still Life with Bread Crumbs, by Anna Quindlen
Still Life with Bread Crumbs: A Novel is a new book by Anna Quindlen, a bestselling author and journalist that I have admired for years. Her collective works show her to be a woman of great depth and compassion. Read More
Famous Women Turning 60 in 2014… and Why They Should Join Sixty and Me!
It took me 3 years to fully be able to admit that I was sixty years old. I think it’s hard for a lot of women to accept that we’re getting older – after all, 60 has the sound of a “big number.” Read More
Starting a Business After 60? Begin with Your Mindset
As women in our 60s, we have demonstrated our resourcefulness and resilience throughout our lives. We’ve become experts at doing things for the first time. We’ve earned degrees, raised families, managed our careers and travelled alone. We have proven again and again that we are masters of reinvention.
Now as we reach our 60s, many of us are facing our greatest challenge yet – how to survive and thrive without a job. One option is Read More
Book Club: The Signature of All Things: A Novel, by Elizabeth Gilbert
After taking a 13 year break from writing novels, and following the amazing international success of her memoir “Eat Pray Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert has returned to fiction with “The Signature of All Things: A Novel.”
The book is set in the 18th and 19th centuries and tells the rags to riches story of the Whittaker family led by the creative and resourceful Henry Whittaker. After conquering extreme poverty and facing personal challenges, he becomes the richest man in Philadelphia. His strong willed and adventurous daughter Alma eventually inherits all of her father’s money and Read More
The Importance of Friends for Women Over 60 – Suzanne Braun Levine (Video)
In this episode of the Sixty and Me show, I share a conversation with Suzanne Braun Levine, a woman who was a legend in the women’s movement and is now an inspiration to midlife women. Read More
6 Questions to Ask Yourself While Planning for Retirement
Many women over 60 are getting ready to retire, if we haven’t retired already. But our generation of women is reinventing retirement in a way that would be unrecognizable to our parents’ generation. For many of us, our “golden years” are not going to be spent sitting quietly on rocking chairs watching TV. Instead of being sedentary, silent and shut away from the world, women over 60 are approaching our retirement years with a new spirit of focus, purpose, energy and ambition. Read More
Finding Your Own Voice – LaDonna Gatlin (Video)
In this episode of the Sixty and Me Show, I had the pleasure of talking with LaDonna Gatlin, a high energy motivational speaker and author who believes that every woman has a unique song to sing instead of living someone else’s dream. Read More
The Stages of ‘EX’ – Dealing with Divorce After 60
Elizabeth Kubler Ross wrote about the five stages of dealing with death and loss – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Read More
The Pro-Age Revolution and Makeup for Older Women – Cindy Joseph (Video)
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking with the radiant and inspiring Cindy Joseph about how the pro-age revolution is impacting the world of makeup for older women. Cindy is a make-up artist, supermodel, and CEO of her own cosmetics company. Read More
Guest Posting with Sixty and Me – Terms and Conditions
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