DISCOVERING THE SECRETS
OF BEAUTIFUL SKIN--AT
ANY AGE
Think we Boomers have to subject ourselves to invasive and costly treatments like Botox to get healthy, youthful skin? Not according to chemist Ben Kaminsky, whose Beyond Botox, 7 Strategies for Sexy, Ageless Skin Without Needles or Surgery offers "the first skin care book by a pharmaceutical chemist, with insider information from the front lines of the beauty industry...[Kaminsky] upends much of the conventional wisdom--as well as some current theories and trends--about skin care..."
EXPLORING NOTIONS OF LOVE, LUST
AND INTIMACY IN MIDLIFE
Frank, poignant essays make up the collection of prose about Boomer love and sex in Over the Hill and Between the Sheets, Sex, Love and Lust in Middle Age. Consulting magazine editor and adjunct professor of journalism Gail Belsky edited this volume of essays and joins me to talk about them. Among the 20+ writers included in the collection are, Jacqueline Mitchard, Susan Cheever, Joyce Maynard and Marion Winik.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
HOW A QUEST FOR
A FAMILY RAVIOLI RECIPE
CHANGED ONE WRITER'S LIFE
Laura Schenone's attempts to retrieve her great-grandmother's recipe for ravioli took her on a remarkable journey. In her memoir, The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken, A Search for Food and Family, Schenone, winner of the James Beard Award for A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances, chronicles her trek through the "gritty landscape of New Jersey's industrial wastelands...to the dramatically beautiful coast of Liguria--homeland of her ancestors--with its rapturous pesto, smoked chestnuts, torte, and most beloved of all, ravioli, the food of happiness and celebration."
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
THANKSGIVING EDITION
"RIGHTSIZING" YOUR LIFE
According to veteran print and broadcast journalist Ciji Ware, if you're like a lot of other Boomers beginning to think about how you'll be spending your bonus decades, some of the questions you'll ask may include, "Where do I want to live now?...How can I build a meaningful, happy life...without a lot of stuff weighing me down? Join me for a conversation with Ciji Ware, to discuss her fascinating new book, Rightsizing Your Life, Simplifying Your Surroundings While Keeping What Matters Most.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
C-SPAN CREATOR BRIAN LAMB
If you're a fan of C-SPAN, be sure to tune in to my conversation with the man who helped found the TV network, and serves as its chief executive officer. (12:05 p.m.)
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