FEATURED
How I Became A Menopause Warrior
Chapter 1: Excerpted from Menopocalypse: How I Learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too, by Amanda Thebe. Available October 2020 from Greystone Books. The Chinese call it…
FEATURED
Finding Joy and Purpose in Laos
I was born in Switzerland in 1980, a very sporty and temperamental little girl. During my teenage years, I first studied languages, then sociology and political science and eventually earned…
FEATURED
Digging Up Your Buried Dream at Any Age
I’ve known I was a writer since I was three. I was one of eight kids, and when you grow up in those great big families, you desperately want something…
Change Advocates
How I Became A Menopause Warrior (Part 2)
Excerpt adapted from Menopocalypse: How I Learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too, by Amanda Thebe WHEN MENOPAUSE AND MIDLIFE COLLIDE Have you ever googled the world “midlife”? The first thing that comes…
A Friend to the End: A Story of Loss, Regret and Second Chances
Risa and I met on that first day of college. We were both one of the very few students left by our parents, shortly after the car was unpacked. Most of the student’s families stayed…
How I Learned Living With Less Stress Was a Choice.
I’ve always experienced a lot of stress. As a shy girl I hid behind my mother, blushed bright red when called on in class, and had many skin issues (triggered by stress). The transformative experience…
THE RESILIENT
Infinite Love – One Family’s Childhood Cancer Story
Dan and I met in college through a mutual friend and married two years after graduation. I was working as a photo editor/producer in NYC and Dan was working in a family business in NJ. …
From Afghanistan to America: How My Passion For Art Lit the Way.
Five-year-old refugee My parents had to make the decision to flee Kabul quickly. Afghanistan was embroiled in a civil war and had become unsafe for us. It was 1994, the mujahadeen had taken over the…
Grateful Every Day
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” My life has been a story of highs and lows. What I’ve learned is that while you can’t control what happens, what you can…
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UNCONVENTIONALS
From Rural American Girl to Art Impresario in Vietnam
As I grew up in rural Kansas, I could not have imagined in my wildest dreams the course that my life would take. My journey to becoming an art dealer living in Hanoi is an…
Career Transformation from Nurse to Goat Farmer!
I grew up in Oyster Bay, Long Island surrounded by animals. My dad brought home a lot of strays and we had a menagerie that included horses, dogs, cats, turtles and even an injured owl….
How a High School Dropout Became a Successful Educator
At 86 years old, I’m a widow, mother of four boys, one granddaughter that I raised as my own, and retired educator. I was born on July 31st, 1931 in Newport News, Virginia. My six…
CAREER SHAKERS
College and a New Career After 50
For years through my volunteer work, I knew I had a calling to work with people suffering from substance abuse and mental illness. Because of my life circumstances and responsibilities, it took a while to…
Chapter Two Starts at Age 50!
I recently found a drawing from when I was a lot younger. It showed me with a husband and two children. In the picture, I am holding a book that I had written. Just before…
The Bergdorf Goodman Guide to Animal Welfare
There is an old expression that says gifts sometimes come in strange packaging. I hadn’t thought about that quote in a while. But it came to me early one morning in the summer of 1999…
