OlderWiserWomen

Sally Field. I don’t know about you, but I remember Gidget and the Flying Nun. I loved her in Steel Magnolias. And now…I love her as an advocate to bring to light the issue of osteoporosis in women.

Thanks Sally!

Do you feel like you are taking life too seriously? Do you laught and play enough? I had not heard of the Older Woman’s Circus until now…but I think we need this more than we know.

Life is complex these days. We need to lighten up, need to laugh. Read Life Saving Circus and see how some women are accomplishing this….

The CBS Early Show did a segment on women and midlife. I love the opening sentence of this…”Midlife doesn’t need to bring crisis. Sometimes, it just brings change, in the form of reinvention.”

I often hear the term “midllife” used right along with “crisis”. I for one have not felt like I’m in crisis. Yes, I’m changing and my world is changing. It’s exciting, sometimes a bit scarey (most of us don’t like the “unknown”), yet I would not have it any other way.

What changes are you experiencing? How do you see midlife? Feel free to post your comments below…I’d love to hear form you.

…as did the generations coming before and after. Here is one persons thoughts…

Oldest baby boomers, turning 60, have seen - and made - history

By JIM BUTLER
Eagle Staff Writer

July 20, 1969, on live television, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to walk on the moon. The baby boomers were there.

Nov. 4, 1963, on live television, in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters, Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. The baby boomers were there.

In the rice paddies and jungles of Vietnam and on the steps of St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington as John-John Kennedy saluted the casket of his father, the baby boomers were there.

This is the year that the oldest baby boomers - born between 1946 and 1964 - turn the big 6-0. That means they’re only two years away from eligibility for Social Security, a milestone that could mean an economic crisis for the nation.

To give some background, the “baby boom” occurred when U.S. soldiers returned from World War II and produced babies in numbers that caused a population spike.

Famous boomers include President George Bush and first lady Laura Bush, former President Bill Clinton, pop singer Cher, actor Sylvester Stallone and iconic boomer singer Jimmy Buffett. All of them remember the astronaut triumphs, events surrounding the JFK assassination, and Vietnam War protests and battlefield bloodshed.

Television broadcasts are intertwined with those memories.

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