How To Find Your Voice By Telling Stories After 50 (and BE HEARD!)
For most women in our generation, if we were heard in the past, it was within limits. More often than not, our generation of women let others do the talking. We worked hard behind the scenes, and consciously or unconsciously, allow others to have the voice. Now we are...
Let your skirt tell the story: a dance from Puerto Rico featuring skirt and drums
Let your skirt tell the story, a dance from Puerto Rico featuring skirt and drums at the musuem of american history, Washington...
How Sharing Stories Boost Your Brain, Especially After 50
When we share stories our brains sync and minds meld, we produce the good stuff our body needs. Here’s how sharing stories boost your brain, especially after 50. when your brain hears blah blah blah When you read or listen to facts, or watch a...
Meryl Streep turned 70! Here’s 5 of My Favorite Meryl Streep Roles. What Are Yours?
Meryl Streep was born on June 22nd 1949 in Summit, New Jersey. She graduated from Vassar and Yale, was a stage actor for three years before her first major movie break in The Deer Hunter. She won an academy award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as...
5 reasons you need to tell your stories now after 50, and be the author of your life
5 reasons why you need to tell your stories now after 50, and be the author of your life. 1.You have so many stories You have lived a lifetime. You have so many stories! Childhood stories. Growing up stories. Tales of adventures in the 60’s. Missteps in the 70’s....Recent Stories
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Bucktooth(image courtesy of Vintage Everyday) When my mother […]
Chapter 4. Challenges and CelebrationsThose times were BP, Before Penicillin, and there were a number of serious childhood illnesses, which were expected for most children, like rites of passage. I only know from being told that my first severe illness, which had to have included some pain, was a kidney infection when I was just a baby. I don’t know how this was treated, but the after-effects would follow me into my teens due to my mother’s lifelong concern for my plumbing […]
Chapter 3. Coping With Change1943 – The shelves in German stores may have […]