Telling My Age

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What do we do when the world is on fire?
You might have noticed that I haven’t written in this space for a while.
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When is the last time you had fun?
If you had told me I’d willingly take a photo of myself in a bathing suit for publication at ANY AGE, forget about this one, I’d have told you that you…
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Adventure and connection, 40 years on.
We met in 1985, ten perfect strangers who had signed up for a 10-day Outward Bound adventure in western North Carolina.
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What's your late-career superpower?
Maybe it's time we talked about retirement differently.
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What lessons from high school do you carry with you?
I don’t know how it was in your high school, but at the large public high school in the southern Ohio suburb where I grew up, the spring day the…
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When your encore career makes lasting change.
When you meet Linda Brashear, you might not guess that she’s retired, even though she’s dressed in workout clothes on the day we meet for lunch.
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How to learn to be brave.
There was no doubt: It was a lump.
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Telling My Age
Telling My Age
Resources, community and encouragement for women with decades of wisdom to share. Because how we talk about ourselves matters.
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