Feisty Side of Fifty/Baby Boomer Women

I’m the proud owner of a midlife crisis convertible. As my snappy ride is heading toward its twelfth birthday and getting up there in car-years, there’s some good new/bad news involved. The good news is that I’m no longer in crisis, the bad… well let’s just say I’m stretching the definition of midlife when I [...]

December 6th, 2011 | Tags: baby boomer, baby boomer women, baby boomers, boomer, boomers, Mary Eileen Williams, mature women, menopause, midlife crisis, older women, over 40, over 50, over 50 women, over fifty women, women 50+, women fifty plus, women over 40, women over 50, women over fifty | Category: Aging With Attitude, Inspiring Each Other | Comments (1)

As women who’ve sailed past our fiftieth birthdays, we’ve already learned a number of life lessons. We know that life isn’t always easy, you don’t always get what you want, and larger disappointments can seem like unbearable hardships if you look at them that way. On the other hand, it is from just these types [...]

October 7th, 2008 | Tags: 50+, aging, aging with grace, anti aging, attitude, baby boomer generation, baby boomer woman, baby boomer women, baby boomers, boomers, fifty plus, first-wave boomers, forum for women, healthy aging, marriage, maturity, menopause, midlife, midlife crisis, midlife transition, over fifty, peri menopause, post-menopausal, post-menopause, senior, turning fifty, women over 50, women over fifty | Category: Inspiring Each Other | Comments (3)

Many of you may remember my cyber friend, Mags, of the Magnolia Diaries. I’d asked her to be my guest blogger a couple of weeks back, as I consider her thoughts on a woman’s journey through peri-menopause to be so helpful. She has recently honored me once again with a mention in her blog and [...]

July 1st, 2008 | Tags: aging, baby boomer women, boomers, depression, first-wave boomers, maturity, menopause, midlife, midlife crisis, midlife transition, peri menopause, post-menopausal, sadness, symptoms of menopause, women over 50, women over fifty | Category: Inspiring Each Other | Comments (9)

In her book about women’s second adulthood, Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, Suzanne Braun Levine provides us with some exiting data concerning the aging brain. Dr. Francine Benes, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has discovered that there is a growth spurt that takes place in the human brain around the age of [...]

June 28th, 2008 | Tags: 1960’s hippies, 50+, 60s hippies, aging, aging process, aging with grace, anti aging, attitude, baby boomer, baby boomer generation, baby boomer woman, baby boomer women, baby boomer women over 50, baby boomer women over fifty, baby boomers, body, body image, book, boomer, boomers, career, career development, career transition, careers after 50, connect, counterculture, creative, early menopause, Eileen Williams, emotion, empty nest, empty nesters, encourage, female forums, feminist, feminist history, feminist movement, feminists, Fifties, fifty plus, first-wave boomers, forum for women, forums for women, friends, fun, generation, goal, goal attainment, goal setting, groovy, health, healthy aging, hippie, hippie chick, hippie culture, hippies, hippies in the sixties, hippy, humor, inspiration, invitation, lifelong learning, M. Eileen Williams, making goals, marriage, Mary Eileen Williams, mature resources, mature women, maturity, menopausal symptoms, menopause, midlife, midlife crisis, midlife transition, old broad, older women, over fifty, peri menopause, post-menopausal, post-menopause, psychedelic, reaching your goals, retirement, retirement planning, senior discount, senior services, seniors, Seventies, share, signs of menopause, Sixties, speak, story, support, symptoms of menopause, the 50's, the 60's, tips for baby boomer women, turning fifty, voice, wisdom, women, women over 50, women over fifty, write, writer | Category: Of Mind and Matter | Comments (6)