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NABBW Newsletter
May 2006
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-- FOR NABBW MEMBERS ONLY, FEATURED MEMBER AND FEATURED ASSOCIATE
-- MONTHLY COLUMNS AND MEMBER NEWS
-- IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Greetings!
Become a student of change. It is
the only thing that will remain constant. -- Anthony D'Angelo
I had to laugh when I came across this quote because we are in
the middle of more changes at NABBW and www.BoomerWomenSpeak.com. Our
biggest change begins with this newsletter. We will no longer
produce a bi-monthly BWS newsletter and a monthly NABBW
newsletter. Beginning today, Boomer Womens’ World
will be our only publication and it will include all things
baby boomer women. You will find our stories, learn about
products, books, vacations, coaching, and many services that
benefit midlife women. You will also be enriched by educational
columns concerning menopause, empty nest, retirement, legal
advice, travel, caring for aging parents, etc.
 Boomer Womens' World will be emailed
the 15th of every month and will include information from
NABBW members only. We will promote NABBW members only.
Members are encouraged to submit their Members Only
information before the 5th of every month. We are happy to
include you in every newsletter. All we ask is that you change
your copy monthly. Be sure to include your Web site link if you
have one.
I am looking for women to interview concerning all baby
boomer women issues for our monthly teleseminars. Please let
me know if you have a topic of interest.
Thanks to everyone who filled out the NABBW survey. I am in
the process of sorting through them. There were many
excellent ideas for future seminars. Next month I hope to share
teleseminar topics for June, July and August. And don’t worry if
you can’t listen in. They will all be recorded and available
through the site.
I have my finger on the pulse of baby boomer women and my
promise is to keep you in the know. Please notify me if there is
a topic you would like to see covered. Enjoy this issue. The
articles are fantastic.
Those of you who live in the Chicago area, please look for an
article about BWS and NABBW in Satisfaction
magazine, www.satisfactionmag.com during
May.
Onward with grace,
Dotsie
dots@nabbw.com
1-877-bboomer
More exciting news: The National Association of Baby
Boomer Women continues to grow.
I am offering all newsletter readers the $50.00 discounted
rate to join the National Association of Baby Boomer Women.
You receive a $25.00 discount by joining in May.
Click this link to register at the reduced rate.
This link is no longer available on our home page.
Membership includes:
� Endless opportunities to network with other boomer
women
� Forums for seeking, claiming and living your passions
� Reduced coaching fees
� Complimentary legal and financial advice
� Reduced web design rates
� 35% off all Arbonne products and 20% off Silpada Jewelry
and Black Rabbit design purses.
� Reduced advertising rates at BWS
� Opportunities to be the Featured Member in our
newsletter
��Free information from experts on fearless aging, women's
health, empty nest, caring for aging parents, living in the
moment, domestic violence, traveling, the new retirement,
writing and so much more.
JOIN today for $50.00!
I continue to witness women encouraging women in our Virtual
Village every day at http://www.boomerwomenspeak.com/cgi-bin/
ultimatebb.cgi. Won’t you join us?
HERE'S OUR FEATURED
SINGLEHOOD FORUM TOPIC. Notice the tone of hope with
new beginnings.
I started to post this under divorce but my divorce is in the
PAST and I am moving into my FUTURE!
I completed the move out of my house that was lost to
foreclosure because of the divorce.
God has blessed me with a small house to rent, cottage style,
cozy and it will be quite comfortable.
Follow the link to read the rest of the story and all the replies.
http://www.boomerwomenspeak.com/cgi-bin/
ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=45;t=000071
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benefits on the Members Only page at www.nabbw.com.
Check it out. Email me at
dots@boomerwomenspeak.com if you've forgotten your
password.
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BWS NEWS
Our Voices, a collection of stories written by baby
boomer women can be found at this link: http://www.boomerwomenspeak.com/
stories.htm. Visit to hear what your boomer sisters have
to say about their life journeys. Stories are added a couple
times a month. Submissions are always welcome.
The advertising campaign is booming. Is your market
baby boomer women? If so, be sure to advertise with us. Click
here: http://
www.boomerwomenspeak.com/advertise.htm to learn
how your product, site, or book can be featured at BWS.
FREE OFFER-Boomer Books: BWS gladly promotes
books written by, for, or about baby boomers. Send us your
information here: http://www.boomerwomenspeak.com/
boomerbooks.htm
FREE OFFER-Resources for Women: Does your web
site connect, encourage, or support women? Send us your link
to be included on our Resources for Women page. http://www.boomerwomenspeak.com/
resources.htm
www.smartwomanonline.com
SmartWoman is launching a summer-long
subscription campaign, called SWAP. They are offering that
people trade their emails for one free year of
subscriptions. Simply go to their site and leave your name
and email address. They will email you for your mailing
address and you will receive their glossy bi-monthly magazine
at your door for FREE. I know the editor, have sponsored a
Smart Woman event, and have been published in their
magazine with several NABBW members.
NABBW MAY TELESEMINAR
Jed promises to help us understand the men in our lives.
Listen up!
Irritable Male Syndrome and Male
Menopause: What Women
Need to Know to Protect Their Relationships and Help
Males
May 30th, Tuesday, 7:00 PM EST; by Jed Diamond
Jed is the author of the international best-sellers, Male
Menopause, Surviving Male Menopause, and The
Irritable Male Syndrome. His books have now been
translated into 26 foreign languages. Irritable Male
Syndrome and Male Menopause: What Women Need to Know to
Protect Their Relationships and Help the Males
"He used to be the nicest guy you could imagine, now he's
become moody and mean." Millions of women are finding that
something strange is happening to the mid-life men they know.
They are becoming increasingly irritable, hypersensitive,
anxious, and angry; and they often take out their frustrations
on the women closest to them. Based on his 40 years of clinical
experience working with men and results of an international on
his 40 years of clinical experience working with men and
results of an international research study with over 60,000
males, Jed Diamond will give you the four key causes
underlying these problems and most importantly what you can
do to protect yourself, heal your relationship, and help the
men.
Registration information for the call will sent to NABBW
members only at a later date.
FEATURED ASSOCIATE
Donna Shepherd
http://www.donnashepherd.com
 Donna J. Shepherd, Children's/Inspirational
Writer:
In January 2003, while surfing the web, Donna came across
Just Between Us, a Web site “for women with a heart
for ministry.” This publication seemed tailored for her, a
pastor’s wife. Just for fun and with no previous writing
experience, she clicked on the Writers’ Guidelines and saw the
upcoming theme – Turning Fear into Faith. Knowing the subject
well, she wrote the required 1,200 words, and with one click
and sent it off into cyber-space.
It seemed nothing short of miraculous when a month later she
received a letter from the editor of Just Between Us
requesting her manuscript for publication. Her first submission
was her first acceptance.
Since that time, Donna’s received her share of rejections, but
has had devotionals, columns, and poetry published many
times on websites, in magazines and included in several
anthologies. She pens a monthly column for The Dabbling Mum
and the NABBW. Her writing appears in Daily Grace for
Women, Devotional Reflections to Nourish Your Soul,
(Honor Books, April 2005) and in the upcoming devotional,
Anytime Prayers for Everyday Moms (Warner Faith,
November 2006). She is also the author of a children's picture
book, Topsy Turvy Land (Hidden Pictures Publishing, July 2005).
Each year presents new, exciting possibilities. Recently she has
spoken and sung at churches and women’s conferences, and
begun teaching at writers’ conferences.
Donna desires that her children’s writing would impart joy, and
her devotionals teach, inspire and encourage the reader.
Devotionals consist of few words, so each word must count.
Focusing on one theme, she leaves the reader with a summary,
challenge, or new perspective. To read more by Donna, visit
Devotionals by Donna: http://
www.donnashepherd.com.
FEATURED MEMBER
Marcia Reynolds
Author of Outsmart Your Brain! How to Make Success Feel
Easy
www.OutsmartYourBrain.com
 Most baby-boomer women have a positive habit of
consuming self-help information. We love to share what we
have learned from the fascinating best seller we just read, the
engaging seminar we attended and the rich website we just
found. Yet, reading, listening and talking about good ideas is
not enough. There is a difference between choice and change.
Although we have good intentions, our busy lives and unspoken
fears often keep us from creating the life we wish we could
lead.
Marcia Reynolds has been teaching classes in communications
and personal effectiveness for over 25 years. Frustrated by
seeing most of what she taught forgotten by participants within
48 hours, she set out to find out why. Her quest led her to the
field of emotional intelligence. She became passionate about
the workings of the brain.
Emotions were never discussed as a part of her studies in Adult
Learning Psychology. Yet clearly, when emotions take over,
logic is lost. In fact, most of our decisions are made on
emotional reactions even when we think we have "thought
things through."
To learn more, Marcia began her doctoral studies in psychology
with a focus on the neurosciences and how we can truly change
our thinking. Her second book, Outsmart Your Brain!,
is intended to help people understand how their brains work so
they can harness the processes and consciously change how
they feel and act. She also sends out a Brain Tip every month
to subscribers on her website. Without understanding how our
brains work, we are victims of our reactions. When we
understand, we can master our destiny by choosing our
actions.
Marcia now teaches emotional intelligence classes around the
world. And students report seeing lasting behavioral change
and effective results. And although she travels frequently, she
chooses to live where she was born, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Read Marcia’s article about why men and women worry
differently at this link:
http://www.outsmartyourbrain.com/content/view/141/56/
FEATURED AUTHOR - MAY BWS
FORUMS
Dee Dee Raap
May BWS Forums
www.deedeeraap.com
 Talk about your mom during May.
America's biggest generation is losing America's greatest
generation, and as author Dee Dee Raap knows firsthand, the
loss can be sudden and especially painful. Dee Dee's mom
died just before Christmas, and nine years later, Christmas
ornaments her mother made took her on a journey she calls
"narrative healing." Dee Dee will share her journey in the
forum, sharing the gifts of her Mom--values, life lessons and
plastic pink flamingoes--as well as prompts that enabled her to
write the series of hearfelt letters that readers across the
country have used to begin their own journey of remembering,
celebrating and healing. Dear Mom: Remembering,
Celebrating, Healing, is an inspiring, beautifully written book
that every baby boomer women can relate to: the relationship
between a mom and daughter.
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MONTHLY COLUMNS AND MEMBER NEWS
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Helping Your Parents Get Rid of
"Stuff"
By Barbara Friesner
Because of a crisis, my sisters and I had to move our mother
into an assisted living which also meant emptying out her
home. Unfortunately, as almost always happens when there’s a
crisis, the timing couldn’t have been worse and, because of our
work schedules, we had 1 week in which to do it!! While my
parents were the most organized people you could imagine and
my sister and I worked well together, one week wasn’t nearly
enough time to sort through the “stuff” my parents had
accumulated throughout their 50 years of marriage and
certainly not enough to make good decisions about what to
keep and what to get rid of. That was almost 7 years ago and
to this day, I wonder what family “treasures” were lost in the
rush.
Continue reading at this link: http://www.nabbw.com/columns/barbarafriesner.html
A Home for the Soul
By Regina Leeds
How would you like to play a little game with me? Walk outside
your home, condo or apartment and take a stroll around the
block. Now enter through the front door as if you have never
been in this home before. What are some of the things you
know instantly about the occupants of this house? My
home reveals, for example, that I have pets. You simply can’t
miss my Golden Retriever’s toys scattered about the floor - or
my cranky cockatiel’s seeds sprayed everywhere.
If you think about it, every time you go to see a movie or
watch a play or turn on the TV, you know a great deal about
the characters before anyone says a word just by looking at
their environments. You may want to work with a decorator or
even a talented family member to help you make a specific
visual statement in your home. I would urge you to take this
work one step further: be sure your home is organized,
including all of the hidden areas. I can’t tell you how many
homes I see with perfect ‘public rooms’ and a war zone in the
every closet and cupboard.
Continue reading at this link:
http://www.nabbw.com/columns/reginaleeds.html
The Dark Side of Friendship
By Karen Baar
Last month, I wrote about the joys of friendships with women.
Unfortunately, things aren’t always so sweet. In midlife, just as
we come to terms with our parents, our spouses, our careers
and our children, we may also sort through friendships,
identifying our most enduring friends and pulling away from
others.
This happens for a variety of reasons. As we get older, our
friendships are no longer based on the same things. When our
children are little, many of our friendships come through them
– we meet women at childcare, or through the kids’ schools;
because we share so much in our daily lives, we feel as if
we’re on the same page. Once the kids are gone, however,
what originally made us so close may be lost, and we drift
apart.
Continue reading at this link:
http://www.nabbw.com/columns/karenbaar.html
Walking Through Fear
By Prill Boyle
We’re all afraid.
If we’re not anxious about getting senile or going broke, we’re
worried that our children will start using drugs or that we’ll end
up as one-hit wonders. It doesn’t matter how accomplished,
brilliant and beautiful we consider ourselves. Fear comes with
the territory of being human. And the better we are at
navigating through it, the more comfortable we feel in our
skins and surroundings.
Facing fear also goes hand-in-hand with realizing our dreams.
Continue reading at this link: http://www.nabbw.com/columns/prillboyle.html
Retirement and the Single Woman
By Jan Cullinane
Are there unique factors to consider if you’re a single, female
retiree? The answer is yes. Even if you’re part of a couple now,
remember that divorce, death, or the break-up with a
significant other can change your status. Since women live an
average of seven years longer than men, your chances of being
single at some point are considerable. So, let’s take a look at
some areas you may want to think about if you’re single now,
or may be single in the future:
Continue reading at this link: http://www.nabbw.com/columns/jancullinane.html
Considerations Involved in the Sale
of a Business
By Patricia McHugh Lambert
Business owners find themselves pondering a sale of their
business for many reasons. Sometimes, it is because they
really had not considered or developed a secession plan and,
as they near retirement, a sale of the business can be a good
and profitable option. In other cases, a secession plan has been
developed, but just doesn’t work out. For instance, the owner’s
children or other principals of the business decide they wish to
pursue a different career. Sales of businesses are also
contemplated as a result of bids for the business from a
competitor or larger company.
Continue reading at this link: http://www.nabbw.com/columns/
patlambert.html
The IT Factor
By Nan S. Russell
American Idol judge, Simon Cowell, periodically remarks about
the "it" factor when assessing contestants. It seems to be one
of those nebulous, undefined and subjective attributes one
either has or doesn't have. And it falls into the category of you-
know-it-when-you-see-it. He's right. You do know it when you
see it and that's true in the workplace, too.
Some people call it passion. And while that's part of it, it goes
beyond the intense driving focus associated with passion.
Continue reading at this link: http://www.nabbw.com/columns/
nanrussell.html
The More Creative Home Office
By Suzanne Falter-Barns
A few years back I wrote here about Kathryn Weber, whose
beautiful ezine, The Red Lotus Letter, is one of the top Feng
Shui ezines out there. (Feng Shui is the Chinese art of using
interior decoration to create an auspicious life.) It’s a great mix
of the practical and the mysterious. To that end, Kathryn has
shared with us some tips on how to set up a more creative
office, using Feng Shui concepts. (Fellow skeptics, please stay
open and read on. You may find some surprises
here.)
Continue reading at this link:
http://www.nabbw.com/columns/suzannefalter.html
Soggy Slippers and All
By Julie Clark Robinson
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
-Susan J. Bissonette
Every day I wake up a little more giddy than the day before.
Steaming cup of coffee in hand, I challenge my slippers to take
on the dew and head out the door to see, literally, what’s new.
I give a nod of acceptance that the daffodils – whose
emergence a few weeks back felt more glorious to me than
any 4th of July fireworks show – are on their way out.
I wonder if my neighbors think I’m nuts. “Of course they
do,” I tell myself. We’re the family who moved in, during
an ice storm, just ten days before Christmas. We’re the family
with a giant Santa on the porch before the refrigerator was
delivered. We pluck worms off the driveway after the rain and
rush them inside (to feed the lizards). They don’t even know
my name yet, but they’ve undoubtedly noticed that I trail
behind my kids en route to the bus stop wearing soggy
slippers. They know that several times a day I meander around
my yard inspecting tiny buds with all the geeky intensity of the
Professor on “Gilligan’s Island.” Neighbors know all.
Continue reading at this link: http://www.nabbw.com/columns/julierobinson.html
The Pleasures of Providence
By Carol Sorgen
When you think of Rhode Island, the first thing that may come
to mind is the colonial charm of its island town of Newport. But
if you haven’t been to the capital city of Providence, you’re
missing out on a city that has enough big-city attractions to
keep any urbanite happy, but with the small-town feel that
makes you instantly feel right at home.
I’ve been to Providence several times and I never fail to be
won over by the friendliness of its residents, the top-notch
caliber of its thriving arts scene—from galleries to museums to
theater—to its first-rate restaurants—and just about all within
walking distance from any downtown hotel.
Continue reading at this link: http://www.nabbw.com/columns/
carolsorgen.html
Busy As Bees
By Donna Shepherd
In him we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's
grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and
understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of his
will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in
Christ. – Ephesians 1:7-9 niv
As children, my brother, sister, and I looked forward to visiting
our grandmother during the sweltering days of summer. Dad
would drive along the winding gravel roads, with me getting
sicker by the moment, until we finally came to her small
house, deep in the hills of Kentucky.
Every evening she’d cook a big supper over the wood stove. We
ate green beans fresh out of the garden, chicken, cornbread,
and crispy fried potatoes – browned in the cast iron skillet.
Continue reading at this link: http://nabbw.com/columns/
donnashepherd.html
MEMBER NEWS
Charleen Micheles
www.geocities.com/tale2bestseller
Always wished you had a friend in the writing business? Well
now you do. Contact Charleen about editing your writing for
publication.
Karen Baar
www.karenbaar.com
Thanks to Karen Baar, author of For My Next Act... Women
Scripting Life After Fifty (Rodale, 2004) for adding links to BWS
and NABBW to her home page. Join NABBW and get Karen's
book free with membership. Visit her site to learn
more.
Cathy Taylor
Everything Menopausehttp://www.everythingmenopause.com/
resources.htm
Thanks, Cathy, for adding our links to your site.
Betsy Masaschi
www.gocleanse.com/isabets
Spring is sprung. Time
to Cleanse the Toxins from our bodies. 410-241-0232
FREE TOOLS FOR NABBW MEMBERS
www.ToolsForPositiveLiving.com
Success Coach and
professional Joyologist KC Christensen-Lang, fellow NABBW
member, provided coaching tips as an expert resource in the
national magazines, Men's Edge and Women's
Health & Fitness recently. Her growing company,
Happiness Is will be featured in the June issue of the
national business magazine, Entrenpeneur as well. For
her FREE "Powerful Tools For Positive Living" newsletter
delivered right to your home or office, visit our site
above.
Patrika Vaughn
www.acappela.com
Perfect gift idea!: How to Write Your Own Life Story or Your
Family's Saga Cassettes or CDs
Write Your Own Life Story
Step-by-step guide works for everyone, even those who have
never written anything more than a letter. Recommended by
Library Journal.
Casey Dawes
Wise Woman Shining announces a series of tele-circles listed
on
http://www.wisewomanshining.com/Tele-Circles.htm.
These tele-circles are a way for 5-10 woman (and like-minded
men) to gather together to bring their concerns and wisdom to
a particular topic. The first topic is "Using Awareness to
Change a Habit."
Angela Rall
arall@pthomecare.com
Personal Touch Home Care
in NY & NJ, during the Month of May, is inviting all baby
boomer women to attend a FREE informative seminar on a
health &/or wellness topic of interest. Visit our website @ www.pthomecare.com to register in
your area.
Elizabeth Appell
www.readelizabeth.com
Author of the novel "Lessons from the Gypsy Camp"
A girl. A gypsy. A murder. A choice.
Buy LESSONS FROM THE GYPSY CAMP from her publisher’s site
and donate $5 to the charity of your choice. www.scribesvalley.com.
Prill Boyle
http://www.prillboyle.com
Looking for the perfect gift for your friends? Prill Boyle's
Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women
is a beautifully-worked mosaic of true stories that profile
"ordinary" women who achieved extraordinary personal and
professional success later in life. E-mail Prill at prill@prillboyle.com
to order a signed copy for your friends--or yourself!
Suzanne Falter-Barnes
www.GetKnownNow.com
Download Suzanne's free list of 50 Top Publishing & Media
contacts at her web site. Or drop by her blog at http://
www.GetKnownNowBlog.com for almost daily tips on how
to get known now - the easy way!
Nancy Mills,
founder of Spirited Woman, invites you to participate in the
SPIRITED WOMAN CIRCLE an exclusive new monthly 1-hr.
phone conversation series with famous women authors and
more. On June 6th guest is Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of
bestselling A Woman of Independent Means. Elizabeth
rarely does interviews. She'll talk about mega fame at forty,
her varied writing career - from newspaper reporter to soap
opera consultant, the importance of journaling in her life, and
her new role as community activist. Call only $15 Find out
about series special. http://www.TheSpiritedWoman.com/
spirited_woman_circle/
Stephanie Montgomery
www.memoircafe
Memoir Caf�, where thoughtful writers share and critique in a
non-competitive environment, now offers women the first three
months free and will give a year’s membership to the first
woman from a state or country not already represented in the
membership. Newly updated, Memoir Caf�’s services now
include: a Collections feature in which members post stories to
particular topics (May is for Weddings!) a monthly e-newsletter,
Forum Mistresses, and access to all the Memoir Caf� radio
shows with a single click. Come listen and then come read and
write with us! stephanie@memoircafe.com
Pamela D. Blair
www.pamblair.com
The Next Fifty Years is a
guide for women at midlife and beyond, a journal and a study
guide all rolled into one. This one-of-a-kind resource offers
wise, friendly, pertinent advice for all women who are aging
and covers every topic to enable graceful, joyful, healthy, sexy
aging with ample opportunity to record personal thoughts.
Sandra Bennett
www.thistlecovefarm.com
Practicing Christian, energetic & gifted speaker, teacher &
consultant specializes in the home and farm. Popular topics
include HomeKeepers - Providing Sanctuary for You and Your
Family & Increasing Farm Income. She is a writer &
photographer, http://blueridgegazette.net &
resident Shepherd @ Thistle Cove Farm - Artisan Yarns from
the Shepherd,
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