Offers humorous observations on women's friendships, moving, chicken soup, second parenthood, marriage, the fiftieth birthday, Girl Scout cookies, cars, air travel, names, fashion, and aging.

Wise Choices Beyond Midlife began as a study group that became, over a period of two years, an inspiring, informing and empowering book for women over 60 that explores practical ideas, resources and suggestions for action on eight major life issues. They include health, relationships, income, health care, ageing and death. The four authors pool their personal and professional experiences as psychologists, teachers and social workers to discuss the uncertainties and anxieties of becoming elders, and preparing for a full life after midlife.

Well-known political author Margaret Randall delivers her unique acerbic yet lyrical social commentary juxtaposed with actual recipes. Her collection embraces cooking, eating, anguishing and rejoicing in the sustenance it gives. Food is one of women's most basic methods of communication, passing on histories, love, a sense of community. These poems speak of social responsibilities and relationships -- women cooking pots of soup, then patrolling a neighborhood to keep it safe -- marveling at both the joys of love and the anguish of famine and human need. Ms. Randall's many followers will discover her personal struggle with body image, compulsive overeating, and finally her delight in coming to terms with what she really savors in life. Some of the poems are literally recipes that Ms. Randall received, begged, pondered, dreamed about, prepared, and consumed. Through her inimitable metaphors, Randall insists that food is not just tasted through recipes but experienced through cultural, physical, intellectual, and emotional issues.

Menopausal Musings is a collection of small novellas. Each novella follows the inner world of one character's contorted thoughts as they cope with the crisis of middle age. We observe these afflicted people as they exist at different times of day. All are urban characters who live alone in New York City. All are trapped within the walls of their apartments and trapped in their minds and unable to escape. We listen and observe as their minds twirl with hopes, dreams, bitterness, and anger. We cringe as we watch their souls cringe because of isolation from family, friends, and the rest of humanity. They're humans set adrift in a unforgiving world with its billions of unmarked faces. Yet, their pain is our pain; their longing is our longing. And, that is the whole point.

This text aims to humorously eradicate the notion that ageing is both depressing and hopeless. With down-to-earth information and cartoons, the author suggests looking to the positive - seizing opportunities instead of slinking into boredom.

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