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/fiftēnəs/ (noun): the quality of women living a fearless life after fifty

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Fearless Flying With Courage And Laughter (Watch)

Fearless Flying With Courage And Laughter (Watch)

May 20, 2017 by Erica W. Jamieson | Leave a Comment

Fearless Flying brought a group of women together to celebrate the launch of Fiftiness! Behind the screen at Fiftiness, we always knew that we wanted to get off the page and gather women in a room together, doing something. There is magic that occurs when we are in action, talking, laughing, and most importantly, learning from […]

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Filed Under: Editors choice 6, Listen & Watch, Workout Tagged With: aerial sports, events, fearless, laughter

Watch This – Fiftiness in Conversation

Watch This – Fiftiness in Conversation

April 25, 2017 by Erica W. Jamieson | 1 Comment

Fiftiness in Conversation: Waking An Optimist Thank you to the women of Fiftiness – my early R&D group for letting me facilitate and record them in a conversation about being over 50! In this video I asked whether you wake an optimist or a pessimist. I had been walking in the mornings to Rihanna’s song […]

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Filed Under: Editor's choice 7, Listen & Watch

Peri-Menopause Dissected By Poet Julie Grass

Peri-Menopause Dissected By Poet Julie Grass

March 31, 2017 by Erica W. Jamieson | 2 Comments

I Am Pink Hot Tamale Red! If it’s April, it’s National Poetry Month! We are so excited at Fiftiness to celebrate National Poetry Month by introducing poetry to our site. What a perfect form of the written, or spoken word, to give us perspective on the universal truths of being a woman over fifty. Introducing Julie Grass . […]

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Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Listen & Watch, Menopause Tagged With: menopause, Poetry, poetry month

The Best Dos & Don’ts of What to Wear in your 50’s!

The Best Dos & Don’ts of What to Wear in your 50’s!

March 29, 2017 by Michelle Combs | 18 Comments

The Dos & Don’ts of What to Wear in Your 50’s turns the notion of style guides on its head. As Michelle Combs points out, it’s not about what you put on, it’s how best to wear your own self esteem. Making the list of no-no’s for Michelle are shame and regret and the weight of […]

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Filed Under: Listen & Watch, Sexiness, Your Body Tagged With: body image, inner beauty, style guide, what to wear

Will Nightwear Fit In An Airstream Dream?

Will Nightwear Fit In An Airstream Dream?

January 13, 2017 by Laura Lyster Mensh | Leave a Comment

Laura Lyster Mensh dreams of her empty nest life in an Airstream.  Freeing herself from stuff, she’s cleaned out most everything & is proud of her newly streamlined shelves. As she notes, the trash bags going out of her house are heavier than the shopping bags coming in! But what to do about her overstuffed pajama […]

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Why I Am the Least Likely to Podcast About Sex Over Fifty

Why I Am the Least Likely to Podcast About Sex Over Fifty

December 6, 2016 by Laura Lyster Mensh | 3 Comments

“Being interested in the topic of sex,” says Laura Lyster Mensh, “at my age, is neither sleazy nor pathetic. It’s a little bit heroic!” In Laura’s first podcast for Fiftiness she talks about the joy of talking about sex in her fifties! At Fiftiness, we’ve found that so many women wanted to talk about what’s […]

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Welcome to Your Fifties – Let’s Talk (a short video)

Welcome to Your Fifties – Let’s Talk (a short video)

December 6, 2016 by Erica W. Jamieson | 9 Comments

Fiftiness began as a conversation in early summer 2015. Two years into my fifties, and just coming out of the fog of sending my oldest to college, with my youngest getting ready to begin her applications, and about to celebrate twenty-five years of marriage (to the same person!), I was feeling as if I had […]

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4 Solutions To Dish-Duty Equity With Adult Children

4 Solutions To Dish-Duty Equity With Adult Children

December 2, 2016 by Laura Lyster Mensh | Leave a Comment

  Laura Lyster-Mensh confronts the final frontier for the modern feminist mother – Dish-Duty equity when your adult children live at home. Calling dish duty the lowest domestic position, she offers four solutions to managing the kitchen sink pile-up in today’s modern family of working adults, parents and children! Listen Here and share your family’s solutions in the […]

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Roots & Wings: A Podcast on the Empty Nest

Roots & Wings: A Podcast on the Empty Nest

October 24, 2016 by Laura Lyster Mensh | Leave a Comment

Let’s face it: We have feathered the empty nest comfortable with a full, easily accessible fridge.  No wonder our children come back. Yet, if we’ve been successful as parents, we raised not only kids we genuinely like, but kids who like us as much. Connected by so much more than just Verizon and Netflix accounts, we […]

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Filed Under: Emptynestness, Family, Listen & Watch Tagged With: empty nest, podcast

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