After her divorce from comedian David Steinberg, Judy Steinberg decided it was time for her to begin life anew. Her book Fabulous After Fifty: And Sexy at Sixty! is the result.

In the book, Steinberg encourages women to get in shape and spruce up their wardrobes. She advises women to “find the glamourous new you and show mother nature who’s boss”.

Steinberg shares with women her mechanisms for surviving divorce and learning to look towards the future, even if it is going to be different from the future they had envisioned. She talks to women about changing things in their lives, from the decor of their bedrooms to their attitudes towards their bodies. Being single and sixty doesn’t mean you can’t also be sexy.

The book deals with the issues of single life after fifty with both humor and compassion. It is now available in paperback at Amazon dot com.

When you reach a milestone, it is only right that you celebrate it by doing things that you have never done before. If you are short of ideas, the book Fifty Things To Do When You Turn Fifty (Fifty Experts on the Subject of Turning Fifty) can be a great resource.

Edited by Ronnie Sellers, Gerit Quealy, Debra Gordon, Brian O’Connell, Sarah Mahoney and Allison Kyle Leopold, this book is a treasure trove of both practical and fun things you should consider as you reach that half-century mark.

The list of “experts” include Bobbi Brown, beauty expert; Harold Kushner, Rabbi; Diane von Furstenberg, clothing designer; Garrison Keillor, radio personality and humorist; and many others.

The book has advice on financial and social strategies as well as delving into spiritual matters and important medical tests. Throw in a good helping of humor and you have fifty great essays on turning fifty. A great resource and a lot of fun to read for anyone entering their fifth decade. The book makes a great gift as well.

I love reading carefully crafted words which touch me deep where I live? I recently had that joy from an unlikely source:  An email.  But being that the email, and the poem, came from “The Borzoi Reader,” Random House’s online literature publication, I guess it is somewhat understandable.  The poem is about being a woman and coming to middle age.

The name of the poem is “Boat,” and it is by Deborah Digges. I, of course, had to research her a bit and I have all of her books on my wishlist! This is the kind of poet that makes you want to go back to college and pick up another degree - this time in literature.

The poem “Boat,” explores the feelings of facing middle-age with young mothers surrounding, in lines such as,

“Once they looked back to show me myself at fifty, frightening to them, not yet recognizable…”

The last line was, to me, absolutely breaktaking and she observed her 50+ years by considering her, “brilliant, trivial unmooring.”

“Boats” A Poem by Deborah Digges

About Deborah Digges

More Poems from Deborah Digges

To me she will always be, at least on the screen, Bob Newhart’s receptionist, secretary, and Girl Friday.  Marica Wallace was one of the best reasons to turn on the original Bob Newhart Show, back in an era when sit-coms actually made you laugh.  But Marcia is much more than that; she is a breast cancer survivor and a woman who redefined herself after being widowed.  She also lives on the stronger side of a nervous breakdown, and knows all about being a “menopausal” mom.  She has conquered a weight problem and a hard childhood.  In short, Marcia Wallace is a survivor, and she is going to be online July 11th to talk about her life.

The Spirited Woman Circle is conducting a series of interviews with women that have brought the best, and worst, of their experiences to bear in creating their lives.  Along with Marcia, over a series of weeks, Rochelle Krich, Fannie Flagg, and The Saucy Sisters will be interviewed through a telephone interview that you can listen in on. 

Rochelle Krich is the author of 14 novels, including Where’s Mommy Now? which was adapted to a television movie, Perfect Alibi.  Fanny Flagg is an actress, author, broadway star… and generally famous redhead.  I especially love her creation, Fried Green Tomatoes - if you haven’t read it, do.  You will love it.  And get the movie too because it is marvelous.  The Saucy Sisters are known for their lectures and books on wine - including, and maybe especially, their newest idea, the wine diet. 

Each of these teleseminars are $15.00 each but if you buy all four, you pay only $55.00.  You can pay with a major credit card or through PayPal so it is accessible to all.  It is a great investment for the woman looking for motivation and hearing about success “against all odds.”  We can succeed if we have the motivation, proper tools, and role models to get us there.  The Spirited Woman has gone out of their way to bring us seminars that will bring much of that valuable information to you.

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