The award-winning authors of
Invisible No More are back with
another award-winning book!
Saving the Best for Last is the perfect book for self-reflection, book club study, or just plain fun. It is also the perfect gift for mothers, daughters, and friends.
“For these three brave women, life began at 50 years of age when they made a decision to be honest about themselves. Thankfully, they have shared their stories with us.”
- Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique, on Invisible No More: The Secret Lives of Women Over 50
National Awards
- iUniverse Editor’s Choice
- iUniverse Readers’ Choice
- ForeWord Magazine – Third Place in Mind/Spirit category
- Beach Festival Award – First Place in Self-Help category
…I have derived great comfort from reading about your experiences. I empathize with each of you for the losses you have suffered, and I applaud you for your honesty in revealing personal details about your lives. Your book has given me renewed hope that I can perceive this next chapter of my life in positive terms and to think of it as a new beginning instead of the end…
—A reader in Albuquerque, New MexicoI really enjoyed the [Red Tent] event… I loved the speakers – it takes a lot to hold my interest for 90 minutes – and they did! I enjoy all that introspective stuff so any of those kinds of speakers really appeals to me.
—Attendee in Columbia, MarylandWhat you shared touched each and every one of us, perhaps in different and singular ways, but always deeply. And yet for all the earnest and serious tone of the insight and wisdom you shared, there was also humor and, that most elusive of emotions, joy!
—Attendee in Bradenton, Florida
Read Renee’s original posts for babyboomers.com!
Some photos from the AARP Convention. Poor Stedman Graham hardly knew what hit him! Can you tell we had a blast?
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Upcoming Events
- Radio Show Interview
When: Sat Jan 28, 2012 10am to 11am EST Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Renee will be a guest on Marsha Merrill's show. - Relay for Life Anna Maria Island
When: Tue Jan 31, 2012 6pm to Tue Jan 31, 2012 7pm EST Where: Relay for Life Anna Maria Island Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Joyce, long term cancer survivor, will speak. Miramar Room. 100 Bridge Street. - Bookworm Book Club
When: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:30am to 11:30am EDT Where: Bacall Recreation Center, 2041 Canal St., The Villages, FL 32159 Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Jean will speak to the book club about the adventure of writing. - McLEAN NEWCOMERS CLUB
When: Wed Apr 18, 2012 12pm to 1pm EDT Where: Indigo Landing Restaurant Alexandria, VA Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Renee will present "Meet the Author" to the McLean Newcomers Club
Life in the Boomer Lane by Renee Fisher
- The Rebuttal January 21, 2012As Sitting Bull said, after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, “There are two sides to every story.” And, because I would heartily agree, I hereby present a rebuttal from Movie Man. Movie Man, aka Mike, is actually a Good Guy and he has become a good friend of Susan’s, in spite of their first date. When […]
- Sex and the Sixty (Year Old) Pt 5 January 20, 2012I’ve had a lot of fun writing about Susan this week. Many of you, consisting of one person, asked if Susan was real. I have actually asked her that same question on several occasions, and she has always considered thoughtfully and then told me to shut up. Susan and I have been friends since 1998. […]
- Sex and the Sixty (Year Old) Pt 4 January 19, 2012When my friend Susan goes on actual dates, she does exactly the same things that most people do. She goes out to dinner. She goes to the movies. She goes to female impersonator shows. But somehow, the end result always seems to veer off course. Sometimes, she and the guy never even make it to […]
- Sex and the Sixty (Year Old) Pt 3 January 18, 2012When Susan arranges her first meetings with men, she has to make sure she meets the right person. This is because she has, on at least one occasion, had an entire conversation with the wrong person in a public place. His wife, when she arrived, was not amused. Susan’s way of making sure that this […]
- Sex and the Sixty (Year Old) Pt 2 January 17, 2012For those of you who believe my friend Susan hasn’t given online dating enough of a chance, rest assured she has been doing this since the original site, cavematch.com. Thus far, she has only excluded the sites that would result in the FBI confiscating her computer. After she is contacted by men, and, after she […]
- Sex and the Sixty (Year Old) Pt 1 January 16, 2012Welcome to a five-part series of reposts, a veritable cornucopia of past drivel, a best of, a past hits, a test of quantum physics. If all reality isn’t reality at all, and if everything is happening at the same time with no past, present, or future, then not only isn’t this a repost, the events portrayed are […]
- Death by Audit January 13, 2012(The following is the 11th in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a slow weekend, blogging-wise). This week’s Newsweek has a really interesting articled titled, […]
- Zite Makes Right January 10, 2012Apple’s #1 news app of 2011 was Zite, described as a “Pandora for news reading.” If you are over age 50, the word “Pandora” might conjure up “Pandora’s Box,” which is not exactly a good thing. Pandora, according to ancient Greek mythology was the first woman. After the gods created her, they gave her a box […]
- Wanting Sex Less and Enjoying it More January 9, 2012A new study is out, conducted by the American Journal of Medicine. The researchers were people who have perhaps the best job on the planet, next to those who are in charge of quality control for Haagen Dazs, analyzing sexual desire and satisfaction in 806 women, age 40 or older, with a median age of 67 years. […]
- Friend Me, Tag Me, Call Me in the Morning January 6, 2012(The following is the tenth in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a slow weekend, blogging-wise.) London Daughter has asked that I write about […]
Jean’s “Gray Matters” Radio Shows
- SPIRITUALITY MATTERS August 31, 2011This is my last show for WSLR. I'm taking a break to explore other new adventures. This really is a double show. The first half is an exploration, with friends Joanne and Gail, about spirituality. The second half is friends Joyce and Renee talking not about our books, but about what we learned from the adventures of writing and promoting our books. […]
- BALI MATTERS - Part 2 August 10, 2011This episode of Gray Matters is "Bali Matters: Part II." Your host, Jean Peelen, spent almost a month on the wonderful island of Bali. Although the beauty of Bali, the amazing artistry that is everywhere, the vibrant Hindu religion, and the sweetness of the people is entrancing, it also was clear that many people were poor and suffering on Bali. […]
- BALI MATTERS - PART I July 20, 2011I recently returned from three wonderful weeks on the island of Bali - only 26 hours away. Argh! There aren't words to tell how beautiful the island and the people of Bali are. Being there, around their culture, was beyond my experience. I talked for this show with two wonderful people: Wayan Amor, our driver, guide, and friend; and Nadya an America […]
- BRAVE NURSES MATTER May 24, 2011I've always thought that nurses were brave simply because they dealt with human beings, with all of our bodily yuckiness. But recently I talked with three retired nurses who truly were brave, in the sense that they struck out in the world in times when women just didn't do that. These women were some of the brave women who modeled for the rest of […]
- Dreaming of Music Matters April 6, 2011Andrea Ross Greene is a friend of mine. She left the east coast for sunny California to pursue her dream of singing and songwriting. She writes beautiful music and performs it for appreciative audiences. Andrea's music and rich voice have been used in independent films. Her songs capture experiences and emotions that connect immediately with the lis […]
- Waking Up and Shaking Up the Dreamer Inside February 20, 2011Last month I was asked to speak at a fund-raising brunch for the American Association of University Women. I spoke about waking up your vision for your life. This is a recording of that speech, with the addition of comments about the role of vision by co-authors and friends Renee Fisher and Joyce Kramer. Enjoy! […]
- Cruising Matters February 20, 2011This week's show was recorded aboard the Royal Caribbean ship The Monarch of the Seas. I went for a four-day cruise with my sister and her husband and had a wonderful time. I decided to take the time to interview both the Cruise Director and a passenger who seems to cruise non-stop. Hope you enjoy it. […]
- MONEY MATTERS January 23, 2011Money is what Matters on this week’s Gray Matters: Changing the Conversation About Aging. Money makes the world go around for sure and sometimes, as we age, money is a difficult subject for us. We come from a generation that never spoke about money—our own money—to others. For many of us money is more private than sex. Listen to Rebecca Mitchell who has […]
- ALTERNATIVE HOUSING MATTERS January 7, 2011As we age, we all think about how we will be living in the future. Our future. We all know about living alone and about living with our children and about living institutionally in independent or assisted living. So the question is: Are there any other choices? And the answer is: possibly. There is a national movement toward co-housing. Co-housing isn’ […]
- Alternative Doctors Matter December 28, 2010It is no secret that the system of medical care in this country is broken. Human contact, yes even friendship, between a doctor and his/her patients is a thing of the past. Insurance companies run the way medicine is practiced, and that is not a good thing. In this episode I talk with two doctors who gave up on the system. Both opened their own practice […]