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Inventing the Rest of Our Lives by Susan Levine Braun

Catherine — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 07:56:11 +0000

Yesterday, I had a milestone-ish birthday. 55, which means I can no longer say I’m in my early 50s. Boo to that. I’m not generally one to find age markers to be difficult—I thought 40 was a blast, but this one, for whatever reason hit me harder than any other in awhile. I decided I […]

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Rodin’s Lover: A Novel

Catherine — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 07:54:55 +0000

I have been intrigued by the life of Camille Claudel since watching the 1988 movie by the same name. She was a sculptor, living in Paris in the late 1800s, a time that was not conducive to female artists of any kind. At seventeen her talent was already such that, because of her father’s belief in […]

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Bristol House

Catherine — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:19:34 +0000

Annie Kendall’s life has not gone the way she’d hoped it would. In the midst of a stellar academic career as an architectural historian she let a fondness for alcohol get away from her and in doing so lost custody of her young son. By the time she regained her sobriety both her personal […]

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Inventing the Rest of Our Lives

Catherine — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:11:08 +0000

I recently had the opportunity to read Suzanne Levine Braun’s Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood. Although not a new release its message is still relevant for mid-life women. The book explores what Levine calls the Second Adulthood, the years from fifty forward, years that are often portrayed as a winding down […]

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