Frustration Is The Mother Of Risk.

A Seasoned Woman Is Spicy. She Has Been Marinated In Life Experiences. Like A Complex Wine, She Can Be Alternately Sweet, Tart, Sparkling, Mellow. She Is Both Maternal And Playful. Assured, Alluring, And Resourceful. She Is Less Likely To Have An Agenda Than A Young Woman-no Biological Clock Tick-tocking Beside Her Lover's Bed, No Campaign To Lead Him To The Altar, No Rescue Fantasies. The Seasoned Woman Knows Who She Is. She Could Be Any One Of Us, As Long A She Is Committed To Living Fully And Passionately In The Second Half Of Her Life, Despite Failures And False Starts.

It Is A Paradox That As We Reach Out Prime, We Also See There Is A Place Where It Finishes.

Husbands Come And Go; Children Come And Eventually They Go. Friends Grow Up And Move Away. But The One Thing That's Never Lost Is Your Sister.

If Menopause Is The Silent Passage, 'male Menopause' Is The Unspeakable Passage. It Is Fraught With Secrecy, Shame, And Denial. It Is Much More Fundamental Than The Ending Of The Fertile Period Of A Woman's Life, Because It Strikes At The Core Of What It Is To Be A Man.

The One Thing Prostitution Is Not Is A 'victimless Crime.' It Attracts A Wide Species Of Preying Criminals And Generates A Long Line Of Victims, Beginning With The Most Obvious And Least Understood - The Prostitute Herself.