I had modest hopes for ABC’s premiere of Cougar Town (Sept. 23, 2009), the sitcom starring Courteney Cox—I hoped it would at least be a funny if not enlightened view of what real women over 40 go through if they’re suddenly single. Unfortunately, Cougar Town is stuffed with silly stereotypes. I know hundreds of women... »
The September 2009 issue of VOGUE features an article and several color photos of a professionally-styled and airbrushed Jenny Sanford (wife of the South Carolina governor who thinks he’s the Adonis of the Andes) posing in the entryway of her family’s beach house. The photo captions accompanying the nothing-new-here article are more a litany of... »
Sick of Liz sucking all the DARE out of the room while you’re there, gasping for DARE? Tell us about it! The DARE-Salon will be your forum—it’s coming soon to Facebook. In the meantime, please comment on this post. Share your own DARE(S)! After all, if Liz didn’t DARE Start this post, her loving but sometimes... »
… Media reports persist about the so-called impending retirement of baby-boomers. How DARE they! Boomers aren’t some monolithic species of zombie lemmings! People over 50 who retire now are either securely wealthy or delusional. Even the securely wealthy are engaged in second careers and other valuable endeavors. Assume all boomers are retiring? STOP that! …... »
Up-STARTS and the START-Ups They DARED Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927): DARED Start the Girl Scouts at 52. Today there are 3.7 million members in the United States, and in more than 90 countries. Famous Girl Scouts include: Elizabeth Dole, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush, Billie Jean King, Mary Tyler Moore, Candice... »
Starting something new is fraught with anxiety. Believe me, I know! Before I decided to spend more than the GNP of a third-world nation to pursue an MBA in my 50s (and suffer the terror of sitting in finance classes feeling as if I’d crashed a secret coven where everyone was interrogating me in Satanic... »
Start Here! Start Now! For many other women, particularly those over 40, the idea of Starting something new is filled with anxiety or dread. And, right now, Starting something new may seem more reckless than DARING. But, if staying put, with your brain in the cerebral equivalent of sweat pants, is not an option, then... »
Right now, you’re probably thinking – “Hah, who is SHE to tell ME to Start something new?” It’s not easy to DARE Start. Not even for someone relatively fearless like me! It was cruelly humbling to squeeze my middle-aged middle into tiny seats in overheated classrooms surrounded by buff 30-somethings who could thumb-stab multiple coffee/... »
