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The May/June issue of On Purpose Women is now available online here. It has a good review of Invisible No More. It is also available on newstands in Anne Arundel county, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Harford County and Howard County.

The Marc Steiner Show
Marc talks about the lives of women over fifty with professor Kriste Lindenmeyer and the authors of Invisible No More: The Secret Life of Women over Fifty.

Hitting 50 is a time many women dread. It’s decidedly over the hill, and many women of this “certain age” expect the remainder of their lives to be a sullen slide into wrinkles, gray hair and an increasing familiarity with “senior moments.”

However, for the authors of the new book, “Invisible No More: The Secret Lives of Women Over 50,” nothing could be farther from the truth. Throughout its 122 pages, Renee Fisher, Jean Peelen and Joyce Kramer, three friends living in Northern Virginia, take on what it means to be women with a half-century tucked under their belts. Assembled as a collection of anecdotal, personal essays, the book runs the gamut from their experiences with breast cancer to motherhood to the trials and tribulations of aging. Each chapter is approached with vivacious wit and an occasional dose of sassiness that dissolves any stodgy notion of life after 50. Sometimes it’s funny. Sometimes it’s heart breaking. But overall, many readers have agreed on one thing.

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Most life stories start at the beginning. But more than halfway through life, three Northern Virginia women say they have only just begun to live and have published a book about the “epiphany” of life after 50.

Through 122 pages of anecdotes
Renee Fisher, Joyce Kramer and
Jean Peelen share the magic of midlife
in “Invisible No More: The Secret
Lives of Women Over 50.”
Fisher, 58, remembers the exact
moment the book was born — three
years ago during “a complete idiotic
weekend” in Rehoboth Beach, Del.

“We were at the beach, eating 30
hours a day, complaining about men
and being fat and Jean said, ‘I have a
great idea. Let’s write a book,’” Fisher
said.

After returning to Northern Virginia,
the three pored through several
books within the genre in which
they would be writing.

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From the Arlington, Virginia Connection

In present times, it is not uncommon for women to panic when their biological clock turns 50 or older. When they begin to view sags and wrinkles appearing on their bodies, some women tend to feel they are "over the hill." If they are unmarried or don't have a man in their life, they become anxious — if not desperate — that they have lost their chance to obtain a preconceived state of happiness. They shudder at the thought that men will be attracted to women half their age, and competing with youth in their middle-age stage of life is often a threatening experience.

Renee Fisher of Arlington and two of her good friends have written a book titled "Invisible No More: The Secret Lives of Women over 50." These local authors have a clear vision of what it means to be a woman age 50 or older. Through their marriages, divorces, life experiences and worldly wisdom, they have gained a degree of confidence about their inner selves. They recognize that the essence of their beings is who they are and where they are in life. These women have empowered themselves through self-confidence and letting life play out naturally. Most importantly, they recognize one cannot force a situation to happen in life and that it is critical to do what one enjoys, and things will somehow fall into place in ways they are meant to be.

Their book is a vivid illustration that women need to demolish their ill-perceived notion about chronological age and realize that their experience, wisdom and inner confidence is what makes them attractive not only to themselves but to others. They reinforce these notions humorously, seriously and with great validity.

Renee Fisher, Joyce Kramer and Jean Pellen — the authors of the book — are fine examples of local mid-life women who are sexy, savvy and salient role models for women in search of themselves.