Dear Beauty, Years ago, when we were having a bad day, Grandma would say, “Well, the first 100 years are the worst.†And then she’d laugh to assure us that better times were coming. When I planned this series, I wanted to celebrate a woman who had actually lived those 100 years. Even though the 2010 census tells us that […]
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Dear resilient woman, Last night, my brother, Dr. Len Whalen who lives in Florida, called me about our series on age. As an avid supporter of the Whalen Voices blog, he made an interesting observation about people in general, inspired by the inspiring women we’ve been featuring this summer. He said that there seems to be two types of people
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Dear wonderful woman, The years speed by, just like this journey we’ve been on, celebrating women who are turning a new decade. I hope you are able to catch glimpses of your own life as reflected in the lives of these gracious women. Looking back, when I was 15, I wondered if I would ever
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Dear precious woman, When our children are young, we teach them: NEVER ask a woman her age. I’m sure it makes no sense to the young mind who counts age as a victory; feeling smug to be older than her sisters, brothers and friends. So what’s the big deal with age? I really don’t have an answer,
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Dear very cool woman, Today we celebrate turning 60 with Linda. Does it sound odd to use the words “celebrate†and “60†in the same sentence? I used to think that 60 was a time to start shopping for a porch rocking chair so one could be comfortable waiting for life to crumble—but of course,
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Dear cool woman, I’ve always thought that being 50 is reaching the half way point of life. Of course, we get no longevity guarantees, but in the case of this blog about women turning a new decade, we are truly midway. I have to laugh as I write “turning†as if the day we reach a new age
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Dear beauty, Today we feature a woman who is ‘pushing’ fabulous forty. I find it encouraging that as we age, we gain so much and Tinisha’s life reflects that wisdom. Tinisha was born in the Chicago area but moved to Phoenix in 1999. She, like many of us, wanted to live in a warmer place.
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Dear very cool woman, Are you enjoying our journey with women who are stepping out of one decade of life and dancing into a new one? Our third fascinating woman, Niamh (pronounced NEEV) gives us a glimpse of her world at 30; and with three decades of living to her credit, she has much to show us.
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Dear lovely woman, Today we celebrate being 20 with Katrina—or Kat, as she’s sometimes called. This is the second blog in our series celebrating women who are entering new decades from 10 to 100. Kat reminds us of all the cool things about being 20. I feel a tinge of envy as she describes her
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