Welcome to The Third Third, an online journal and virtual community for women committed to realizing our most creative, passionate, energetic, and fulfilled selves in the third third of our lives.
Join us — Moms, Daughters, Sisters, Friends — in the thoughtful exploration of what we need to know.
Be Happy
2013-04-23
Therapy for The Third Third. It's catching on. See this NY Times report.
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Parenting Adult Children -- Still?
2013-04-04
Most of us don’t think about it consciously, but parents will spend at least twice as much time being a parent to an adult child than to a young child...
Summer Camp
2013-04-04
Summer Camp. For folks like us. (Note: I did not use these words: retirees, seniors, older adults. These are camps for adults. Only.) If you ha...
Our already-complex relationships with our parents can be tested at this time in our lives - and theirs — by mental and physical health issues, financial constraints, your sense of responsibility, their sense of entitlement or fierce independence, and the absence of a roadmap for this part of the journey. Let's talk about what we know, what we're learning, and what we need.
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Marriage, adult children, aging parents, friends, mentors, grandchildren. Does anyone else matter?
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Where do you find meaning in life? What is the source of your spiritual longing, or spiritual strength? Are questions of faith on Life's final exam? What are other women thinking, feeling, and doing about their faith at this stage?
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