Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50

In reading Susan Swartz’s wonderful Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50, I laughed out loud, recognizing so many of my own internalized myths about the aging process. What a relief to realize that there are so many gutsy and brave women over fifty who have life’s detours and challenges into grand opportunities through their amazing resourcefulness and creativity. The passionate and daring risk takers are a joyful testimony to the possibilities of womanhood. The lives of so called “ordinary women” are woven an most extraordinary tapestry of good advice and celebration of joyful living. Resonating throughout every story is the profoundness of Eleanor Roosevelt’s message, "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Molly Murphy MacGregor, Executive Director and Cofounder of the National Women’s History Project. 245 pages, paperback