Saving the Best For Last
Creating Our Lives After 50
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Book Details
About the Book
Due to the overwhelming response of the authors' first book Invisible No More: The Secret Lives of Women Over 50, Saving the Best For Last incorporates several new chapters, as well as an exciting interactive element throughout. You, the reader, can not only read Renee's, Jean's and Joyce's enlightening and very real experiences of aging and reinvention, you can also participate in powerful life changing individual and group exercises and processes that will forever change the way you see the years after 50.
The three authors speak candidly about many topics, including:
*sexuality
*dating and mating
*money
*faith and spitituality
*our mothers
*loss
*friendship
As you, too, pass the threshold of fifty, you may discover, as these women did, that this is a moment in your life to celebrate--a beginning, rather than an ending. This is a journey you will not want to miss. Saving the Best For Last is your roadmap and your guidebook.
About the Author
Renee Fisher has been writing fiction and poetry since childhood. In 2001 her novel, King of the Gypsies, was published through iUniverse. She has had several short stories published in literary magazines, including Kingfisher and Metropolitain. She is an Honorable Mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. She is currently working on her second novel. Formerly an artist and special education teacher, she has been a Realtor in the Washington, DC area since 1979. She is currently a Top Producer of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors. In addition, in 2000 she started the first non-denominational speed dating company, Brief Encounters USA, and presently is involved in the startup of a brand new company “Diva Diversions.” Joyce Kramer taught English in inner city Baltimore for 25 years. After retiring, she became Director of Volunteer Services and later Director of Development and Public Relations of the first major community-based HIV/AIDS organization in Maryland. She followed her work in Baltimore with a position as Development and Public Relations Director at the National Association of People with AIDS in Washington, DC. In her mid-50s, Joyce began her third career incarnation when she became a self-employed consultant on global HIV/AIDS and health broadcasting in Washington, DC. She traveled to East Africa to research and write case studies on anti-vaccination rumors in three countries. Jean Peelen is a women’s advocate, civil rights attorney, policy writer, model, actress, radio show host, and “Women of a Certain Age” workshop leader. She is the author of Federal policy documents on subjects including the rights of women and girls in sports, the desegregation of public schools, and sexual harassment in schools and colleges. Jean published management articles in The Public Manager, such as “How to Fire a Federal Employee and Stay Sane.” Jean left a position as Chief of Staff of a Federal agency to become an advocate of the power and possibility of women over 50. At age 59, she became a successful model and commercial actor in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Jean also is a National Spokesperson for The Sister Study, a National Institutes of Health Funded study of the sisters of women who have had breast cancer. In this position, she is speaking to “women of a certain age” across the country.