by Justin Price | Feb 3, 2012 | Journalism
Gail Sheehy wrote bestselling books about the life stages that we pass through in adulthood. But she wasn’t prepared for the exhausting, complicated stage of caring for her second husband through four cancers. Those 17 years also included times of joy and growth....
by Justin Price | Nov 18, 2011 | Blog
With seemingly little alarm from society, our smartphones, iPads, and Kindles have become our best friends. In this latest Women Who Dare episode, Gail speaks with renowned sociologist, Sherry Turkle, who dared to be one of the first researchers on the social and...
by Justin Price | Nov 4, 2011 | Journalism
Editor’s Note: This is the final installment of a four-part series on Passages to Well-Being, an exploration of what contributes to high well-being in women ages 45 to 55, the largest demographic in America today. Why, then, did we choose Mary Claire for this series...
by Justin Price | Nov 3, 2011 | Journalism
“When I turned 40, I swear, it struck midnight and I gained 5 pounds!” Mary Claire Orenic confided to me. When she complained to her gynecologist, he gave her the straight skinny: “From now on, if you do everything the same as the year before, you will gain 3 pounds a...
by Justin Price | Nov 2, 2011 | Journalism
“I’ve never worked less than 40 hours a week,” acknowledges Mary Claire Orenic, our poster woman for high well-being at age 50. “In my 20s and 30s, I sometimes worked twice that.” She still managed to raise a child, keep a marriage happy, and start a new business. How...
