title: The Ageless Way: Illuminating The New Story Of Our Age (Revised Edition 2018)
author:  Karen Sands 
description: It's all here. Everything you need to know about being an over-50 woman today and the prospects of becoming the best you can be as you grow older. Karen Sands is the ideal guide across this uncharted territory. <b>- Suzanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, Fifty IS the New Fifty, How We Love Now, and You Gotta Have Girlfriends</b><br /><br />Brava to Karen Sands for weaving together powerful storytelling with spot-on insights. While Sands speaks specifically to women, this book will be invaluable for anyone crossing the threshold into the second half of life. <b>- Marc Freedman, CEO/founder Encore.org and author of The Big Shift</b><br /><br />Just as a focus on wellness is now the norm for forward-thinking healthcare, so The Ageless Way overturns our culture s bleak perspective on growing older and replaces it with a positive template for being fully alive in every stage of life. Filled with humor, heart, and hard-won wisdom, The Ageless Way is a handbook for evolutionary aging. It should be read and recommended by every healthcare practitioner whose work touches those in the middle years of life and beyond. <b>Debra Gibson, N.D., naturopathic physician and writer</b><br /><br />We all need this book-women, men, Gen X, Y, Boomers, everyone-to remind us that what we expect, we get. Sands points the way to a new expectation of thriving throughout our ages and stages together in the Longevity Economy. <b>Elsie Maio, founder of Humanity, Inc./The SoulBrandingSM Institute</b><br /><br />Karen Sands has done it again! She stirs us up with her uncanny vision that age cannot wither, while also weaving a refreshing new perspective forecasting that women entrepreneurs (especially 40-plus) will be redefining growing older, catalyzing a transformation of the business of aging around the world. <b> -Anne Garland, executive managing director, eWomenNetwork, Hartford & Shoreline </b><br /><br />Applause! I love this book! <b>Joyce Cohen, president, Life Planning Network</b><br /><br />Given our rapidly changing world, The Ageless Way couldn t be better timed! With a comprehensive overview of contemporary women's history in a well-structured framework with thoughtful commentary, Karen Sands aims to help us navigate midlife and aging. If you're seeking a path for reflection, renewal, and restructuring your life, you've come to the right book. <b>Cyma Shapiro, MidlifeMothers.org, MotheringintheMiddle.com, author of The Zen of Midlife Mothering</b><br /><br />The Ageless Way is an enthusiastic, provocative, and highly informative yet authentically personal book. Filled with growth promoting, consciousness raising exercises, the book asks us to creatively consider our future life direction, discussing the stories we tell ourselves about our past, present, and future and how to reassess and reconfigure these stories to open new possibilities in our lives. <b>Tom Lombardo, Ph.D., futurist, psychologist, philosopher, and science fiction scholar, director of the Center for Future Consciousness and The Wisdom Page</b><br /><br />The Ageless Way beautifully and eloquently dismantles old perceptions of aging, unveiling a new paradigm for living longer, healthy, joyful, independently financial lives. Karen is the everlasting past, present, and future mother, encouraging women of all ages to take a giant leap into self-discovery and empowerment, to rightfully take their place in a vast, fast-changing universe. <b>- Mary Madeiras, TV director and independent filmmaker, two-time Emmy winner</b><br /><br />The Ageless Way is a guidebook for Baby Boomers searching for a new model of aging. <b>Paul Irving, chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and distinguished scholar in residence at USC Davis School of Gerontology</b>
zlib_text: Jennifer Crusie
  Anyone But You
  
  For Meg Ruley, Fred’s godmother and my partner in crime and lit-ra-chure
  
  Contents
  Acknowledgment
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Coming Next Month
  
  Acknowledgment
  My heartfelt thanks to Laurie Grant for her ER expertise
  
  Chapter One
  The last thing Nina Askew needed was Fred.
  “I want a puppy,” she said to the brown-uniformed woman behind the
  scarred metal counter at Riverbend Animal Control. “Something perky.”
  “Perky.” The woman sighed. “Sure. We got perky.” She jerked her head
  toward the gray metal door at the end of the counter. “Through there, one
  step down.”
  “Right.” Nina shoved her short dark curls behind her ears, grabbed her
  purse and walked through the door, determined to pick herself out the
  perkiest birthday present on four paws. So what if yesterday had been her
  fortieth birthday? Forty was a good age for a woman. It meant freedom.
  Especially freedom from her overambitious