Adventures of the midlife woman

If you're 50-ish, you're entering a new stage of life--sometimes called midlife--when your priorities might be shifting. If you're in your fifties and you had kids, you're adjusting to life without those consuming responsibilities. If you're 5-plus and still vibrant, you're a modern woman! Gosh, remember when we were kids, and FORTY was considered OLD? We've come a long way, baby...

Anyway, there's a blog called Fearless Fifties that's all about helping women grow and enjoy at this time of life. Some of us might be looking at retiring; a lot of us will keep working long past the I-ought-to-be-able-to-hang-it-up-by-now age.

And of course, a bunch of us midlifer baby-boomer women are single--so let's all connect with each other. Sign up for the Fearless Fifties newsletter. Sign up for our blog (in the lefthand margin). Then come back and tell us what you love about growing older--and it's okay to complain about what you hate about getting older. What are the challenges of being single at midlife? What are you passionate about today!?

I love this saying I read somewhere: "What a man's learned by the time he's fifty, you almost can't write down." And that goes double for women!