Nonfiction Fiction
Sixty and just getting started.
At last, there’s time for me.
Life isn’t perfect. But we don’t stop growing, dreaming, or making a difference just because we reach a certain age. Our voices still matter. Our lives still have meaning.
Intrigued by how society is determined to see women—if we are seen at all—over the age of sixty as elderly, “aged-out,” and less competent, I compiled an anthology of essays, Sixty and Speaking Up, about what it really means to be a woman in her sixties today.
Writers (from the USA, UK, and Canada) remind readers with heartfelt honesty that aging is not an ending but an opportunity for renewed purpose, growth, and hope. Learn more
“I loved this book! Approaching my 63rd birthday this month, I am so glad I picked it to read. These women all have emotions that exist in me. In your 60s you can be open without reservation. If you're over 60 or approaching it, you must read this book!”
“I read the Kindle edition, then ordered hard copies for myself and my sister. The essays make it easy to read for 10 minutes or spend an afternoon turning pages. I already know which ones I will come back to first.”
“As a woman in my 60’s, I found this book to be a refreshing reminder of who I am and what I can do.”
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Seventy is a new beginning.
One life to live.
Women in their seventies wrote, “What about me? I have something to say.” In Seventy and Speaking Up, the essayists reframe seventy not as a time to wind down, but as an exciting and hopeful decade filled with new beginnings and self-discovery.
“This book is wonderful for any woman who is aging, struggling, or not. All of the women have different backgrounds, so much rings true. The chasm between what our bodies can do and what our minds wish to do and our feelings about it.
I wish I had found books like this for different periods of my life sooner.”
“Contemporary culture frequently treats women beyond midlife as either invisible, ornamental, dependent, or improbably heroic. This book refuses those constricting archetypes. Instead, it presents women who are contradictory, discerning, wounded, humorous, resilient, uncertain, intellectually alive, and still in motion. The collection does not ask readers to admire age abstractly. It asks them to listen to particular women as they narrate the consequences of choices, losses, recoveries, marriages, separations, illnesses, careers, friendships, and hopes that have accumulated into a complex present tense.
One of the collection's most compelling qualities is its resistance to a single thesis about aging. The women represented here do not appear to agree on one definitive meaning of their seventies, and that divergence is precisely the point.
Some writers look backward in order to understand the architecture of the self, while others look forward with practical curiosity. The anthology gains authority because it permits plurality rather than arranging experience into a consoling sequence of problem and resolution.”
Sixty and Speaking Up
Available in paperback or ebook, and soon to be an audiobook; buy here.
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Seventy and Speaking Up
Available in paperback or ebook, and soon to be an audiobook; buy here.
For reader reviews, click here.
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