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Lifestyle ideas for women who are enjoying their autumn years

I am in my autumn years. While I was making the difficult transition from wife/mother/career woman to divorcee/grandmother/retiree, I learned many things, mostly by trial and error. I offer the results of my experience, which might help make your transition positive, meaningful and, ultimately, joyful.

From the INTRODUCTION: I have read many books and magazine articles about not only simplifying one's life but also about finding what one wants out of life. These publications also address modifying stressful lifestyles, but almost all of this material is geared toward those women who are trying to combine career, marriage and/or love affairs, child rearing, self-fulfillment, exercise, healthy eating, and self-improvement. Very few, if any, of these publications deal with the more mature woman who is undergoing a life change due to getting older and out of the mainstream. We older women have much to contend with, also, but the challenges are different from those of the thirty-and-fortysomething career woman and/or homemaker.