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Category Archives: Reinventing Ourselves
Mother’s Day Cards
Dear Reader: I wrote this blog post a handful of years ago for MotherhoodLater, but have rerun it every year. I also received those flowers from my stepson several years ago. However, the two experiences have reaffirmed the power of motherhood … Continue reading
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Cyma Shapiro Interviews Erika Athanas, Co-Founder of 4GOOD
Dear Reader: I was SO impressed by this group and its founder that I requested an interview. Please read more about their 4/7/13 Los Angeles-area event. In 2009, having organized the purchase of school supplies for her then 4 and … Continue reading
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Being Ageless – Resilience!
Recently, I’ve been focusing on inspiring people to Be Ageless. Many of you may imagine that’s about exercise, vitamins, and green-tinted healthy shakes — and it partially is — but one of the greatest keys to agelessness might surprise you: … Continue reading
A Mother In The Middle
March has two events of note, firstly, in the UK (and I know it’s different in the USA) there’s Mothering Sunday, and secondly, the Ides of March … and it struck me that ultimately both are about trust. One, the … Continue reading
A Midlife Mother Defines Success (A Commentary)
All the recent media-hype about Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In has got me thinking again. Thinking like I did last year when Anne-Marie Slaughter’s piece “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” (Atlantic July/August 2012) hit the newsstands … Continue reading
Mom On Demand
I am standing at my new desk, a desk that can be raised to a standing height or lowered to a sitting height. I love it! The room that this desk stands in is my office. It has been in … Continue reading
It’s A Scrunchy, Not a Scrungy?
My daughter loves wearing those “Scrungy” things in her thick, beautiful, curly long toffee- colored hair. Both our current Bolivian and former Brazilian au pair take those beautiful locks and twist, twine and twirl those tresses into works of art. … Continue reading
on loving a teenager
They love us in a different way. I said that when someone asked what it was like to have a teenager. I feel like we’ve lost a daughter. My husband said that after a silent and inconsequential Sunday. Just shut … Continue reading
Cyma Shapiro Interviews Suzanne Braun Levine, Author of You Gotta Have Girlfriends
May 16, 2013
Posted in Commentary, Daily Living, Mothers Over 40, Mothers Over 50, Pioneering Spirits, Reinventing Ourselves | Tagged Suzanne Braun Levine, Women Over 50, You Gotta Have Girlfriends | Leave a comment