See It Then Be It
See It Then Be It Geena Davis did not worry about all those stories of movie roles drying up for women in their forties, until it was her turn. After making a movie every year throughout her career, and starring in huge box office hits like Thelma and Louise and A League of Their Own, the […]
Power and Madam Pelosi
Power and Madam Pelosi We watched with interest as Nancy Pelosi fought to regain her role as House Speaker when the Democrats took the House after the November 2018 election. Congresswoman Pelosi is part of a generation of older leaders in government, including Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. No matter what we think of their […]
A Sex Goddess for Older Women
The world is made of stories, not atoms. – Muriel Rukeyser Myths are Ideas and stories and images that shape how we see the world. Celebrating and creating myth is one way to see and be seen. A Sex Goddess for Older Women? Last year I asked a friend who is a mythology buff to […]
Making Women Visible After Midlife
Making Women Visible After Midlife The anthropologist Margaret Mead married a series of men, each one a researcher about to travel to a place she wanted to study. At the end of an assignment, she divorced and married anew. An extreme method, perhaps, and yet it enabled Mead to examine and write about cultures all […]
Dress Like You Have Diamonds at the Meeting of your Thighs
Dress Like You Have Diamonds at the Meeting of your Thighs “Does my sexiness offend you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I have diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?” — Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise” We have all read those articles, the ones that tell us what not […]
