A well-known and highly successful writer is creating a lot of buzz with her new book, "Between a Rock and Hot Place: Why 50 is Not the New 30."
Tracey Jackson is a writer, director, producer and screenwriter, who wrote major hits like "Confessions of a Shopaholic" and "The Guru."
She says she just doesn't think you can look at your life at 50 and think you're actually 30. She says by the time you've reached 50, you've survived so many major life experiences and are probably in the midst of experiencing new ones, like children leaving home, parents getting sick and dying and even ageism in the workplace. To pretend to think about these issues as a 30-year-old, Tracey says, does an injustice to yourself and your experiences.
Tracey says even though you may be happier and healthier at 50, 60 and beyond than you were in your 20s and 30s doesn't mean that bad things aren't going to happen to you. She says it's time Baby Boomer stop deluding themselves.
Tracey is fascinated by the experiences and lifestyles of the 50+ set. That's why she's launched a series on her website called 50 At 50, in which she interviews 50 people 50 and over to look for common threads and to learn from their experiences.
She reveals the one thing nearly every person told her.
Plus, find out why this happily married woman joined Match.com (with her husband's blessing) to prove a point to her single friends that there "just aren't any good men or women out there." Find out what she learned about the 50+ dating world.
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Bob Ellal
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Posted 7:08am May 4th, 2011I thing 50 is the new "49!"
Carol Shriver
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Posted 6:13pm April 28th, 2011I tried to give this 5 stars, but that function didn't work.
Thank you Tracey and I hope your book hits the best-seller list. It's a message that is LONG OVERDUE. Thank you to the producers for "allowing" Tracey on the show and not filtering her out.
Tracey's message is essential, and frankly I find her presence here on Growing Bolder a great relief.
I'm a bit disenchanted (to put it mildly) with the way Baby Boomers have presented themselves as they age, and with the way Baby Boomers HAVE ALLOWED "THE POWERS THAT BE," from the media to the health care industry to the government, to represent Baby Boomers in ways that do a great injustice to our generation and to us as HUMAN BEINGS.
For those Boomers who may be out of touch, many younger people (some not so young, in their forties) have NO RESPECT for Baby Boomers. These people see Baby Boomers as self-indulgent, myopic hypocrites who, in their youth tried to "change the world" only to sell out and lead materialistic self-absorbed lives.
I agree with Tracey when she says words to the effect that we should be gathering en masse and marching in the streets. We did this when we were young, as a generation, but now we seem to be disappearing over the horizon. No one is paying attention, and we need to ask "WHY?"
I have struggled with a corporate medical system for years to simply keep this system from killing my elderly parents in horrible ways. The medical system is broken for everyone of every age, but without a family member to advocate for them an elderly person doesn't stand a chance.
Laws have been passed essentially gutting the rights of patients, ESPECIALLY ELDERLY PATIENTS. The medical system is gaming US while we stand by and do nothing.
Whatever we go through with our elderly parents, we should be looking at that and realizing: that is OUR future. When admins at rehab centers decide whether a patient goes to an "acute" rehab bed (short-term), or a "sub-acute" (i.e. nursing home) bed, and it is NOT the doctor, NOT the physical therapist or occupational therapist who decides this, then something is terribly wrong.
Nursing homes are big business, and the people who own them cannot wait for us to get old, cannot wait for us to break a hip, cannot wait to TAKE AWAY the chance for us to recover and get back to our "rewarding senior years."
ON A DIFFERENT TRACK:
I sat up one night glued to the TV watching 2 hours of a reality show about aging people: one half hour after another of a show called "Sunset Daze."
Think about THAT. "Daze." The first thought I had was Led Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused." I love that song! But wait a minute. This is a TV show about over-55 people living in retirement communities in Arizona, living in a world made just for them, ABSORBED in their own little lives, and "having the time of their life." REALLY?
I could write a blog about this, and maybe I will. I'm 53 and I feel and look like a young 53. But I cannot fathom why Baby Boomers have allowed the SUGAR COATING of their own lives. I'm all for accentuating the positive, but not if it means STICKING OUR HEADS IN THE SAND.
If we are, in fact, growing bolder, then how can we sit back and accept on any level the ageism that exists from the work place to the doctor's office; the portrayal of our "Boomer Bump" SOLEY AS A HUGE FINANCIAL BURDEN AND NOT MUCH ELSE: the biggest financial burden to Social Security and Medicare this country has ever seen.
How can we accept the portrayal in the media of us as silly self-absorbed people who "never grew up, and never want to grow up."
I THOUGHT WE LEFT SUGAR MOUNTAIN! (a reference to Neil Young's song, in case you forgot.)
Thank you Tracey. I have found and bookmarked your blog. You can contact me anytime:
thewildoat@ymail.com
Carol Jean Shriver
http://www.thewildoat.com/
Rotnrichard
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Posted 1:00pm April 28th, 2011As much as I hate to agree with anything, I have to here, I'm 77 and I sure can't pass it off as 60. People do live longer, tho I have no reason why. If you were to go way back, when life expectancy was 35, you might say 50 is the old 16. All horse puckey to me..