Archive for the ‘Aging’ Category
AGEISM UNMASKED: An Interview with Author Tracey Gendron, PhD by Melissa Couch Salim
January 24th, 2022
When did you discover ageism and become passionate about it? I have been studying aging for over 25 years, but it was only about 10 years ago that I recognized just how invisible and pervasive ageism is. While giving a talk, I related that I became a gerontologist because I ...
An Interview with Ada Calhoun, author, Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis
January 13th, 2020
In a few sentences, can you please tell us what Why We Can’t Sleep is about? Why We Can’t Sleep is a book for middle aged women who are having a hard time. If you’re sleepless, anxious, freaked out, broke, exhausted, or overwhelmed, this book is about all the reasons why ...
Guest Post: Letter from a Good Enough Daughter by Sandra Butler, co-author with Nan Gefen, It Never Ends: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters
January 29th, 2018
Dear Ma, I miss you. There are so many things I want to tell you, so many conversations I didn’t know enough to have when you were still here. Sometimes I’ll put a picture of you on the side table and talk to you in my mind about what your granddaughters ...
Guest Blog Post: Frazzled, Frumpy, Fat, and Fatigued by Cindy Dupuie, CN, Functional Medicine Nutritionist
March 15th, 2017
You’re nearing fifty, heading into uncharted territory of perimenopause and menopause. You’re feeling a bit depressed and/or anxious, you have no energy, you’re struggling with your weight, you’re losing hair, you would rather sleep than have sex, you have brain fog, and all of a sudden you’re suffering from IBS ...
Embracing the Image in the Mirror by Stephanie S. Faubion, M.D.
August 9th, 2016
Excerpted from Mayo Clinic The Menopause Solution: A doctor's guide to relieving hot flashes, enjoying better sex, sleeping well, controlling your weight, and being happy!. Copyright © 2016 by Stephanie S. Faubion, M.D. Reprinted with permission from Oxmoor House, an imprint of Time Inc. Books. All rights reserved. [caption id="attachment_23788" align="alignleft" width="250"] ...
Grandparents and Politics by Maureen Eich VanWalleghan
May 21st, 2016
It’s Saturday morning and I am reading, reading on my iPhone. My daughter is relaxing. I’ve written little here because I have had little to say, particularly on Wednesdays, the day I thought I could write unencumbered. This morning I realized I have things to say on Saturday and that ...
BOOK EXCERPT: Geezer Dad by Tom LaMarr
November 2nd, 2015
GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS (excerpt from Chapter One of Geezer Dad) If it wasn’t the boldest decision anyone ever made, it was big for us. After years spent discussing, debating, and generally overthinking our options, we would stop trying to not have a baby. We would place our fate in nature’s ...
Interview with Later Mom: Author Gail Sheehy by Robin Gorman Newman
November 1st, 2015
Gail Sheehy, 77, is the author of seventeen books, including the classic New York Times bestseller Passages, named one of the ten most influential books of our times by the Library of Congress. A multiple award-winning literary journalist, she was one of the original contributors to New York magazine and has ...
Meet Later Mom: Annabelle Gurwitch
June 1st, 2015
NAME: Annabelle Gurwitch AGE: 53RELATIONSHIP STATUS: married to Jeff KahnRESIDENCE: Los AngelesCHILD NAME/AGE: 17 year old son EzraI'm an actress, a mother, a wife and an author. My latest book is I SEE YOU MADE AN EFFORT: compliments, indignities and survival stories from the edge of 50. It's recently out ...
Being An Old Mommy by Maureen Eich VanWalleghan
March 26th, 2015
Isn’t great how kids can keep it real? NOT, especially when it comes to age. One day in the bathroom my daughter let me know in a rather matter-of-fact way that I was an old mommy. I asked why she thought that. “Well you do have wrinkles like Grammie.” Ouch. ...
