TALKING AROUND TOWN(S)
With the books just out, I find myself with invitations to speak to all kinds of groups. One Monday, I stated with men and women at Eagles Trace, an Erickson retirement center in west Houston. That Thursday, I began the day with mothers at St. Martin’s school and ended with members of IJW, Initiative for Jewish Women (www.ijwtexas.org .) If you have an overwhelming desire to hear me interviewed on the radio, check out www.chatwithwomen.com. Go the archives and click on May 12. You can skip the commercial by beginning at four minutes. Pam and Rochelle, the two hosts are relaxed interviewers, and it was fun to chat with them.
What I love about all this is the chance to meet wonderful, interesting women. For example, Rabbi Amy Weiss and I had lunch to talk about her group. She founded IJW, teaches sex education, is working on bringing Story Corps from NPR to Houston for a year of interviews and seems bottomless in her energy and initiative.
Talking to the women at Eagles Trace gave me a very different perception of life in a retirement center. These seem to be very happy, engaged, busy women who, for the most, part, decided to move from free-standing houses so they could have more control of their lives and their time. I confess to having had a bit of a "not for me" attitude about this life-style. I’m way more open now, thanks to having a first hand look into this lifestyle.
I’ve got speaking opportunities lined up on Long Island in June, New York, Princeton and Philadelphia in September, and maybe Chicago and Denver. It’s kinda crazy to fly half way round the country to talk for thirty minutes and sell maybe 30 books…but it is so deeply satisfying to hear the stories of other women, to laugh with them and learn from them and trip into information I never imagined knowing. I am eager to talk with women about the book so if you have ideas or are involved with groups for whom this would be a good program, let’s talk.
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