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Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 by Susan@FarewellTravels
Susan Farewell got her travel writer "sea legs" as a travel editor at the Condé Nast Publications in New York City. Since then, she has spent more than 20 years as a freelance writer and editor contributing to countless newspapers, magazines, web sites, including The New York Times, Travel and Leisure, Vogue, Gourmet, and Cooking Light. She has served as a travel correspondent for radio and TV programs, authored several books, and now writes and edits FarewellTravels, a boutique online travel magazine for the discriminating traveler.
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Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010 by JoanPrice
When Joan Price fell in love at age 57, she and her beloved Robert were surprised to be having such amazing senior sex, yet be in older bodies that would sometimes give them challenges. She went looking for books on this subject but didn’t find any she wanted to read. So she wrote her own, Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty.
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Posted on Friday, February 05, 2010 by Alice Schroeder
VN founder Stephen Reily spoke with Alice Schroeder about her biography The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
-- and what she learned during the five years she spent researching and writing about Buffett. To learn more about the author, visit her website, aliceschroeder.com.
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Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 by VN Editor
Vibrant Nation recently spoke with Michelle Pfeiffer, 51-year-old star of the new Miramax film Cheri about portraying a woman approaching retirement and roles for older female actors in Hollywood.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 by Susan Posnick
Susan Posnick was a celebrity makeup artist for more than 20 years. Then, in 1998, she developed skin cancer on her face. The experience led her to develop a her own makeup line focused on purity, simplicity, and healthfulness. Today, Susan Posnick Cosmetics offers makeup that works for women of all ages, but is particularly suited to women over 50.
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Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by Beryl Bender Birch
Beryl Bender Birch, spiritual teacher, yoga therapist and author, has been an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness since l971. With degrees in philosophy and comparative religion, Beryl has been teaching the classical system of ashtanga yoga for 33 years, and training yoga teachers as "spiritual revolutionaries" since l980. She is the director-founder of The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute and a founder of The Give Back Yoga Foundation.
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Posted on Friday, May 22, 2009 by Karen Stabiner
Karen Stabiner is the author of eight books, including The Empty Nest: 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop.
A regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Opinion section, The Huffington Post, as well as other major publications, Karen lives in Santa Monica with her husband and her daughter, Sarah, a college sophomore.
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Posted on Friday, May 01, 2009 by Sheila Lukins
Sheila Lukins is the pioneering co-author of the award-winning Silver Palate Cookbook
and many other cookbooks, including her most recent, Ten: All the Foods We Love and 10 Perfect Recipes for Each.
She talks with Vibrant Nation about her groundbreaking career in the food industry.
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Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 by Carolyn Scott
Documentary filmmaker Carolyn M. Scott is our Vibrant Giver for April 2009. Carolyn's award-winning film Texas Gold tells the story of one woman's fight to restore the most toxic place in America. Carolyn's new website, Reel Community Action, helps disseminate key research, tools and media to local groups working to effect environmental change.
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Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 by Suzanne Braun Levine
Suzanne Braun Levine is a writer, editor and nationally recognized authority on women, parenting and family issues, and media. She has defined a new stage of life - Women in Second Adulthood - and continues to report on the changes in women’s lives in her books and on her website www.suzannebraunlevine.com. Her new book, Fifty Is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood
offers insight and practical advice to women on the challenges and unexpected rewards of being 50+.
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