The Perceptions Of Middle Age Have Their

Sex And Older Women Used To Be Considered An Oxymoron, Rarely Mentioned In The Same Breath.

Would That There Were An Award For People Who Come To Understand The Concept Of Enough. Good Enough. Successful Enough. Thin Enough. Rich Enough. Socially Responsible Enough. When You Have Self-respect, You Have Enough.

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.

My Mother Had Demonstrated That The Best Way To Defeat The Numbing Ambivalence Of Middle Age Is To Surprise Yourself - By Pulling Off Some Cartwheel Of Thought Or Action Never Even Imagined At A Younger Age.

The Secret In The Search For Meaning Is To Find Your Passion And Pursue It.