What turns me on? I asked myself that recently. And holy shit, I drew a blank. I had just read a staggering essay by Audre Lorde pronouncing the erotic as a source of power. And I wanted to summon this power within myself. I looked for the erotic space in my mind. But my mind kept trying to squeeze old images of my younger, sexier self into a future frame of reference. When I tried...
What would you say if I asked you to consider yourself a work of art? Could you have fun with this notion? Can you get your creative juices flowing around the possibility? Or have I already lost you? I don’t know when I decided to consider myself a work of art. Perhaps it was after years caught up in my shortcomings and flaws. Or maybe it was after years of personal therapy, and a lot...
Combine Women’s History Month with Twisting the Plot for a good dose of insight and inspiration. Twisting the Plot is a platform for women in their 50s to explore creative ways to live their lives. One approach is to uncover examples of women who lived their later years creatively. Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), one of hundreds of women traditionally excluded from history, is one such model. Margaret cleverly wrested her life from the clutches of a...
We remember what it looked like for our mothers and grandmothers. Or maybe we weren’t paying close attention. Like most things, age takes on more significance when it happens to us. Anyway, there we were, sitting on a sun porch in northern New Hampshire, a small group of women who had made the passage into the mysterious fifties. The sun was setting and a soft breeze had come up. The conversation broadened and deepened,...
Each week Dr. Cecilia Dintino and Psychotherapist Hannah Murray Starobin will speak with women who have twisted their plots and discovered that life after 50 can be filled with imagination, inspiration, laughter, and endless possibilities.