Here I am at my new website. This is really an exciting moment for me. A year and a half ago I first started really thinking about, and writing about, what it would be like to move from a career-life to the life of a retired woman. I grew up firmly rooted in the feminist movement and believed that I could have it all; career, family, travel, joy. Sometimes I really did believe that I had the best of everything: a career that was engaging, challenging and rewarding; three wonderful children; good recipes for home-made bread and raspberry preserves, because after all super-Mom had to both career woman and earth mother; husbands (got to smile when I write that) that shared my life; and lots of adventures. My identity was all of those things. And then I realized that before long the picture would be oh so different; no more career, kids grown up and living their own lives, husband (just the one now) busy with his own life and children, and generally less interest in baking or canning although I do spend more time preparing gourmet feasts. Leaving my professional life behind, I was about to become a “housewife” and that didn’t sit so easily with me. And now … here I am … busy and happy (mostly) and launching a website which includes my blog and information about the women and retirement workshops I’m ready to do. The first one’s already scheduled for the Crones Counsel Gathering in Atlanta, Georgia later this month. If you know of anyone who organizes these kinds of events or workshops, please do forward my website info to them. Can’t wait to gather with more women who are travelling this most interesting road.
Meanwhile, before I get to what was going to be what I was going to write about (now there’s a convoluted sentence … if you read it very slowly it should actually make sense), I want to tell you about an amazing thing that happened this afternoon. Continue reading
For The First Time: Feminist Women Entering Retirement 