No Sooner Do We Think We Have

Young Women Who I Think Do The Best Job Of Balancing Family Life And A Big Career Start Businesses Or Work For Themselves. That's The Best Way Of Being In Charge Of Your Life.

Ah, Mastery... What A Profoundly Satisfying Feeling When One Finally Gets On Top Of A New Set Of Skills... And Then Sees The Light Under The New Door Those Skills Can Open, Even As Another Door Is Closing.

My Research Offers Impressive Evidence That We Feel Better When We Attempt To Make Our World Better...to Have A Purpose Beyond One's Self Lends To Existence A Meaning And Direction - The Most Important Characteristic Of High Well-being.

A Seasoned Woman Is Spicy. She Has Been Marinated In Life Experiences. Like A Complex Wine, She Can Be Alternately Sweet, Tart, Sparkling, Mellow. She Is Both Maternal And Playful. Assured, Alluring, And Resourceful. She Is Less Likely To Have An Agenda Than A Young Woman-no Biological Clock Tick-tocking Beside Her Lover's Bed, No Campaign To Lead Him To The Altar, No Rescue Fantasies. The Seasoned Woman Knows Who She Is. She Could Be Any One Of Us, As Long A She Is Committed To Living Fully And Passionately In The Second Half Of Her Life, Despite Failures And False Starts.

The Work Of Adult Life Is Not Easy. As In Childhood, Each Step Presents Not Only New Tasks Of Development But Requires A Letting Go Of The Techniques That Worked Before. With Each Passage Some Magic Must Be Given Up, Some Cherished Illusion Of Safety And Comfortably Familiar Sense Of Self Must Be Cast Off, To Allow For The Greater Expansion Of Our Distinctiveness.