About The Third Third

The Third Third is a new online journal for thinkers, writers, activists, moms, sisters, daughters, and friends -- all women engaged in making the most of their lives, careers, interests, and relationships in the decades beyond age 50. Developed in 2006 as an interactive and intelligent journalistic forum, The Third Third redefines what-women-need-to-know in terms of what-we-want-to- know to realize our most creative, passionate, energetic and fulfilled selves — and to make a lasting, positive contribution to our world.

 

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Conversations

The Third Third’s own Twitter or Facebook — with class and panache. Our answer to “What’s Up?” or “What’re you thinking?” With a Question of the Week to get things going. Seriously.

Q & A

The experts weigh in. Our current guest: Julie Halpert, author, with Deborah Carr, Ph.D., of Making Up With Mom — with informed insights into our Mother-Daughter relationships, from your daughter’s point of view. You ask the Question; she Answers. Then we all can join in.

Blog

You don’t trust blogs, right? You don’t want to sign in. It feels unseemly, tacky maybe. So you’re going to let the 21st Century’s most important media tool pass you by? I don’t think so. You’re a thinking woman in your third third. So read. Think. Tell us about it. Blog. It doesn’t hurt. Really. We might all learn something.

Perspectives

If, as I am finding, The Third Third is an Age of Adjustment(s), how can we ease the transition and invest this newly defined developmental stage of our lives with meaning and purpose? Contributors share their Perspectives in stories, columns, articles, and other tomes about all the choices that matter to us: faith, health, relationships, work, retirement, finances, lifestyle, and current events.

Resources and Links

Don’t call us senior citizens. Or The Elderly. Don’t paint us gray. Don’t count us out. Instead help us refashion our image and our role as women in the third third of our lives -- online. To assist us, some resources — a few as predictable as AARP and others covering the gamut from investing to housing — and a collection of bloggers, some as fabulously feisty as Margaret and Helen. With your helpful additions, this site will be the ultimate Resource — capital R — for women of the third third.