Aging

[close] Some women in their 40s still have young kids at home while others are closer to being grandparents, or happily never had any children, or maybe are still hoping. We’re lifelong singles, married for the first time, or third, homemakers or careers women … there’s a lot of variety. The thing that brings people in their 20s together, for example, is that they’re all essentially in the same “life stage,” but as we move into our 30s, the gap in our experiences widens, and by the time we’re in our 40s, we no longer have a recognizable group.

[close] A group to list & discuss books who have a "woman of a certain age" as the protagonist. I dare you! Can you come up with books that have an old woman as the protagonist?

[close] Social Security and Medicare are hot button topics for this year's presidential elections. Yet almost half of aging baby boomers are financially -ill prepared for retirement and will likely be as dependent on those programs as their parents have been. Will boomer politically mobilize to defend those programs? Is AARP, with its 40 million members uniquely positioned to set the national agenda on these topics that matter most to baby boomers? Will it harness what could be the largest-ever senior voting bloc to defend threatened cutbacks to Social Security, Medicare and other pension systems? Join in the conversation about these fundamental issues which will affect the election and our country's future.

[close] ...May 12, 2011 to June 11, 2011... Mike Befeler will answer questions about his two Geezer-lit mysteries: Retirement Homes Are Murder and Living With Your Kids Is Murder; writing about an older protagonist; topics of aging; and humor in mysteries