Being in love knows no age limits, and our bodies can experience great sex throughout our lifetime. That is the message of my new book How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood. But as I have been talking up that message, I have learned a...
281 Comments | Posted January 14, 2012 | 1/14/12
When I went to work at Ms. in 1972, I wore a matching pink skirt and blouse -- and a girdle. I had just gotten married and was, therefore, not able to get a bank loan without my husband's approval. I had given up playing basketball (half-court for girls) in...
4 Comments | Posted January 4, 2012 | 1/4/12
My new book How We Love Now is out this week. The date was chosen because in publishing January is "self-improvement month." The thinking is that at the start of the New Year we want to repent for all the guilty pleasures we indulged in over the holidays. Which is...
9 Comments | Posted December 9, 2011 | 12/9/11
Most of us consider our fiftieth birthday a milestone, but of what? Is it the beginning of the end, as the conventional wisdom predicts? Our lapsing memories, spreading waist-lines, and lost fertility can make us think it is. Or is it the beginning of a beginning, as I and countless...
Posted December 4, 2011 | 12/4/11
Suzanne Braun Levine's new book 'How We Love Now' hits bookstores next month. Levine spoke at the TedexWomen conference at the Paley Center in New York on December 1. Click here to see a video of her talk.
Being in love knows no age limits. The kinds of...
Posted November 24, 2011 | 11/24/11
Thanksgiving is my absolute favorite day of the year. The way I do it, it has all the advantages of a holiday with none of the oppressive side-effects. There are no presents, so there is no guilt or financial stress. The food is wonderful and comforting (with lots of leftovers)....
Posted November 14, 2011 | 11/14/11
Whether we like it or not, being 50 or 60 means that we aren't in Kansas any more -- body wise. There is no way that the belt we wore in our thirties will fit, even if the hip-huggers we also wore at the time still do.
Many of...
Posted December 18, 2008 | 12/18/08
Whether or not she becomes the junior senator from New York, Caroline Kennedy has already become the poster-woman for those of us thriving, changing, and taking chances at an age when our mothers were encouraged to retire modestly to sitting by the phone, awaiting a call to baby-sit for their...
Posted October 1, 2008 | 10/1/08
Bella Abzug - the shrewd, hard-hitting, passionate and idealistic legislative genius who led the women's movement and represented New York in Congress - once remarked that we would only have true gender equality when an incompetent woman could go as far as an incompetent man. That milestone appears to have...
340 Comments | Posted February 7, 2012 | 2/7/12