Resources & Suggested Reading

Resources and Suggested Reading

Resources

Ian McIntosh's website which allows grieving users to build personalized memorials dedicated to their loved ones at www.remembered-forever.org.

A website where fun, fashion, food, family and faith merge to empower and inspire boomer women all around the world.

National Association of Baby Boomer Women at www.nabbw.com

Paula Caracappa is a holistic practitioner using meditation, visualization, imagery and energy healing to help people let go of stress and live fuller lives. www.PaulaCaracappa.com 914-422-1784

Suggested Reading Regarding Women & Aging

Anderson, Joan, A Year By The Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman, Broadway Books/Random House, 1999

Beckford, Ruth, Still Groovin’: Affirmations For Women in the Second Half of Life, Sourcebooks, Inc., Naperville, IL, 1999

Bender, Sue, Stretching Lessons: The Daring That Starts From Within, Harper Collins Publishers, 2001

Black, Cynthia (editor), Our Turn, Our Time: Women Truly Coming of Age, Beyond Words Publishing, 2000

Bracken, Peg, On Getting Old for the First Time, page 81, Brook Partners, Inc., 1997

Brenner, Marie, Great Dames: What I Learned From Older Women, Crown Publishers, 2000

Cary, Cynthia, A Foxy Old Woman’s Guide to Living with Friends, The Crossing Press, 1998

Dailey, Nancy, When Baby Boom Women Retire, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2000

Davis M.D., Nancy D., et al.., Editors, Faces of Women and Aging, The Harrington Park Press/The Haworth Press, 1993

Dean, Amy E., Growing Older, Growing Better: Daily Meditations for Celebrating Aging, Hay House, Inc., 1997

Delany, Sarah L., On My Own at 107 , HarperCollins, 1997

Diekemper, Ph.D., Lou Dunn, Women Who Take Care: Choosing to Live With Wisdom, Grace and Power After Fifty-Five!, Blue Dolphin Publishing, Nevada City, CA, 1997

Dowling, Colette, Red Hot Mamas, Bantam Books, 1996

Eckford, R.N., L.C.S.W., Leslie and Lambert, M.S., Amanda, Beating the Senior Blues: How to Feel Better and Enjoy Life Again, New Harbinger Publications, Oakland, CA 2002

Ellis, Neenah, If I Live To Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians, Crown Publishers, 2002

Ellison, Ph.D., Carol Rinkleib, Women’s Sexualities: Generations of Women Share Intimate Secrets of Sexual Self-Acceptance, New Harbinger Publications, Oakland, CA, 2000

Freeman, Phyllis R. and Schmidt, Jan Zlotnik, Wise Women, Routledge, NY, 2000

Gordon, Helen Heightsman, Age is a Laughing Matter: How to Laugh Through the Second Half of Your Life, Anacade International, Santa Barbara, CA, 1999

Greene, Phyllis, Shedding Years: Growing Older, Feeling Younger, Villard, NY, 2003

Gross, Zenith Henkin, Season of the Heart: Men and Women Talk About Love, Sex, and Romance after 60, New World Library, Novato, CA, 2000

Grumbach, Doris, Fifty Days of Solitude, Beacon Press, 1994

Hauser, Susan Carol, Full Moon: Reflections on Turning Fifty, Papier-Mache Press, Watsonville, CA, 1996

Heilbrun, Carolyn G., The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty, Ballantine Books, 1997

Henderson, Sallirae, A Life Complete: Finding Peace and Purpose at Midlife, Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 2000

Jacobs, Ph.D., Ruth Harriet, Be an Outrageous Older Woman, Harper Perennial/Harper Collins Publishers, NY, 1997

Jarvis, Cheryl, The Marriage Sabbatical: The Journey That Brings You Home, Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001

Kaigler-Walker, Ph.D., Karen, Positive Aging: Every Woman’s Quest for Wisdom and Beauty, Conari Press, Berkeley, CA, 1997

Kitzinger, Sheila, Becoming a Grandmother: A Life Transition, Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, London, 1997

Latimer, Rebecca, You’re Not Old until You’re Ninety (also available on audiocassette)

Marston, Stephanie, If Not Now, When?: Reclaiming Ourselves at Midlife, Warner Books, NY, 2001

Martz, Sandra Haldeman (editor), Grow Old Along With Me The Best Is Yet To Be, Papier-Mache Press, Watsonville, CA, 1996

Meredeen, Shirley, Cooper Mary, et. al., The Hen Co-Op, Disgracefully Yours: More New Ideas for Getting the Most Out of Life, The Crossing Press, 1996

Mitchell, Shirley and Rubietta, Jane, Fabulous after 50: Finding Fulfillment for Tomorrow, New Leaf Press, Green Forest, AR, 2000

Moran, Victoria, Younger By the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit, HarperCollins Publishers, NY 2004

Morris, Monica, Looking for Love in Later Life: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Joy and Romantic Fulfillment, Avery Publishing Group, Garden City Park, NY, 1997

Morrison, Mary C., Let Evening Come: Reflections on Aging, Doubleday, 1998

Morrison, Mary C., Without Nightfall Upon The Spirit, Pendle Hill, 1994

Pederson, Rena with Smith, Dr. Lee, What’s Next?: Women Redefining Their Dreams in the Prime of Life, Perigee Books/Berkley Publishing/Penguin Putnam, NY, 2001

Perls, M.D., M.P.H., Thomas T. and Silver, Ed.D., Margery Hutter with Lauerman, John F., Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential At Any Age, Basic Books/Perseus Books Group, 1999121

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin, Getting Over Getting Older: An Intimate Journey, page 66, 1992, Penguin Putnam, Inc.

Quinn, PhD, R.N., Janet F., I Am a Woman Finding My Voice: Celebrating the Extraordinary Blessings of Being a Woman, Eagle Brook/William Morrow, 1999

Reilly, Patricia Lynn, Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself: Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness, Conari Press, Berkeley, CA, 1999

Rountree, Cathleen, On Women Turning 50: Celebrating Mid-Life Discoveries, HarperCollins, 1993

Rountree, Cathleen, On Women Turning 60: Embracing the Age of Fulfillment, Harmony Book/Crown, NY, 1997

Rountree, Cathleen (interviews and photography), On Women Turning 70: Honoring the Voices of Wisdom, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1999

Sachs, Judith, Sensual Rejuvenation: Maintaining Sexual Vigor Through Midlife and Beyond, Dell Publishing, 1999

Sarton, May, At Seventy: A Journal

Sarton, May, After the Stroke: A Journal, W.W. Norton & Company, NY/London, 1988

Sarton, May, Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year, W.W. Norton & Company, NY/London, 1992

Sarton, May, At Eighty-Two: A Journal, W.W. Norton & Company, NY/London, 1996

Schlehofer, Jo, Celebrate the Older You: Becoming A Wiser, Warmer, Mature Woman, Ave Maria Press, Inc., Notre Dame, Indiana, 1998

Scott, Ph.D., Lucy, Wise Choices Beyond Midlife: Women Mapping the Journey Ahead, Papier-Mache Press, Watsonville, CA, 1997

Scott-Maxwell, Florida, The Measure of My Days, Penguin Books, 1968

Sher, Barbara, It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now: How to Create Your Second Life After 40, Delacorte Press, 1992

Simpson, Eileen, Late Love: A Celebration of Marriage After Fifty, Houghton Mifflin Company, NY, 1994

Sinetar, Marsha, Don’t Call Me Old I’m Just Awakening!: Spiritual Encouragement for Later Life, Paulist Press, Mahway, NJ, 2002

Stasi, Linda and Rogers, Rosemary, Boomer Babes: A Woman’s Guide to the New Middle Ages, St. Martin’s Press, NY, 1998

Swartz, Susan, Juicy Tomatoes: plain truths, dumb lies, and sisterly advice about life after 50, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., Oakland, CA, 2000

Tenneson, Joyce, Wise Women: A Celebration of Their Insights, Courage, and Beauty, Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company, 2002

Thoele, Sue Patton, Freedoms After 50, Conari Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998

Thone, Ruth Raymond, Women and Aging: Celebrating Ourselves, Harrington Park Press/Hayworth Press, Binghamton, NY, 1992

Vickers, PhD., Joanne F. & Thomas, M.S.Ed., Barbara L., Interviewers, No More Frogs, No More Princes: Woman Making Creative Choices at Midlife, The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA, 1993

Viorst, Judith, Suddenly Sixty and Other Shocks of Later Life, Simon & Schuster, 2000

Weaver, Frances, I’m Not As Old As I Used To Be: Reclaiming Your Life in the Second Half, Hyperion, NY, 1997

Weaver, Frances, The Girls with the Grandmother Faces, Hyperion, NY, NY, 1996.

Welch, Elizabeth, Learning To Be 85, Upper Room Books, Nashville, TN, 1991

Wyse, Lois, Funny You Don’t Look Like a Grandmother, Crown Publishers

Zukerman, Ph.D., Rachelle, Young at Heart: The Mature Woman’s Guide to Finding and Keeping Romance, Contemporary Books/McGraw-Hill, 2001