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In This Issue

Featured Associate

Media Buzz

Testimonials

Boomer Women Speak Forums

I continue to witness women encouraging others in our Virtual Village at Boomer Women Speak Forums. Won't you join us? Here's a peek at some things we're chatting about:

Remember when people "our age" seemed older?

Whose style of dressing do you admire?

Education Level?

Greetings!

July 16, 2009

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
~Sam Keen

I'm the type that has to schedule my laziness, but this time of year, when the warm weather strikes, I'm much better about accepting a slower pace. Even as a kid, I recall making tents out of cotton sheets and hiding away from the heat with a deck of cards or a Highlights magazine. May all of us give ourselves permission to be bit lazy and embrace a slower pace this summer.

If you have not recently visited our homepages, I recommend you check out our Boomer Mall. In addition to regular shopping at most of the main stores across the country, we also feature the Reverse Auction which is the latest way to shop. People believe it will pass the success of EBay with time. It's going gangbusters in Europe. All items in the auction are already the lowest price you will find online. You simply purchase tickets for 80 cents. Then you see what you are interested in buying. The price is not showing so you use a ticket to reveal the lowest selling price at the moment. Once you see the price, you may purchase at that time, or keep watching and try revealing the price a couple hours later. Every time someone checks the price, the price drops! People from around the world are bidding so the price continues to drop until someone decides to buy it. People are saving a small fortune!

Here's a list of recent auctions to give you an idea of the savings:

Pochette Louis Vuitton
Saved 87% auction completed
Value: $700.00 Sold for: $87.00

AK Anne Klein Watch
Saved 94% auction completed
Value: $46.99 Sold for: $2.50

Apple iMac 20 inch
Saved 89% auction completed
Value: $1,179.00 Sold for: $124.50

KitchenAid KSM150PSER
Saved 83% auction completed
Value: $269.99 Sold for: $43.50

Amazon.com Gift Card
Saved 88% auction completed
Value: $350.00 Sold for: $40.50

Apple iMac 20 inch
Saved 87% auction completed
Value: $1,179.00 Sold for: $150.50

Sony PlayStation 3 80GB
Saved 72% auction completed
Value: $399.99 Sold for: $110.25

I hope you'll jump in and begin shopping. I almost got the Kitchen Aid in black, but I guess I was too cheap because someone got it before I made the move.

We've gotten a very nice response for our upcoming teleseminar with Kathi Casey titled, Avoiding the Physical Limitations of Past Generations - Removing, Re-training, and Relaxing! I guess we are learning form our parents' generation and interested in making changes with regards to our health and mental health.

It's testimonials like this that refresh our spirits at the NABBW and encourage us to continue on our path of educating and empowering baby boomer women:

Dotsie, NABBW is one of the few national/international organization that takes pains to make one feel like a member of a family. Thank you to you and your editors and staff. Best,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
www.HowToDoItFrugally.com

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. We appreciate you!

Do you like to journal, or are you interested in writing your story? If so, please join Sue William Silverman in our forum community during the month of August where she will meet us on a regular basis to answer and all questions about writing. Her most recent book Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir, has led me to believe she is the queen of memoir wiring. Her expansive knowledge on the subject will jazz you to write your story with guidance, confidence and know-how. Sue is also the author of two memoirs. Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award Series in Creative Nonfiction. Her memoir, Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction, was made into a Lifetime TV Original Movie. Her poetry collection is Hieroglyphics in Neon. Be sure to stop by and join the conversation.

I encourage you to become a Facebook fan of the NABBW, please click this link and you'll see where you can do so. I'm getting my feet wet with social networking and am enjoying it thus far. Now you can follow us on Twitter and connect with me on LinkedIn.

Blessings,

Dotsie Bregel
www.boomerwomenspeak.com
www .nabbw.com

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PASS IT ON: We all know her. She's at midlife. She wants to take

care of herself but can't always squeeze it in because she's so busy caring for any of the following: her husband, mother, father, children, grandchildren, in-laws, neighbors, friends, colleagues, etc. Won't you please help her out by sharing this newsletter and the NABBW with her?

Thank you for connecting, encouraging and supporting boomer women. May we all be enlightened, educated and empowered!
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Sponsors of the NABBW

NABBW Featured Associate

Introducing NABBW Associate
Cathy Taylor . . .

www.SweetheartChecks.com

Are you or your loved ones involved in online dating? Do you ever worry about their safety when they leave the house to meet someone they have discovered online but really know nothing about?

Well now you have one less thing to worry about!

Cathy Taylor has developed a new website service that will keep online daters safer. As an entrepreneur and internet marketer, Cathy developed a way that both women and men can search by their potential date's name and/or date of birth and discover any criminal history.

Sweetheart Checks is designed to help online daters be safer in a preventative manner. This website provides a national criminal records search in 50 U.S. states; including a national sex offender registry. So for a nominal fee of $10 per name, you can find out if your potential date has a criminal history (including felonies and misdemeanors) or has ever registe

red as a sex offender; and the search is completely anonymous.

Cathy talks about why she wanted to offer this service, "I've been involved in background checking for almost 30 years and it is always painful to see innocent people get taken advantage. But when it comes to online dating, we enter into a new world born out of the World Wide Web that can be dangerous. It just doesn't make any sense not to exercise caution.

"And yet," she continues, "I still have women tell me that they would be too nervous about checking up on someone. Or they just want to 'look the other way' and pretend nothing bad could happen to them. It's naïve and a real shame because the data is easily available if you know where to look. With just this one simple, quick check you can feel more confident that your date doesn't have a criminal history and even save yourself potential heartbreak including wasting your precious years with someone who is never going to be a long-term relationship. "

Making public data available and affordable is what Taylor intends to do with this new website. The first step was to launch Sweetheartchecks.com. Next she plans to educate women about what to look for when doing a background check on any individual you want to meet. To begin with, she has launched a series of articles that you can find HERE including a two-part series titled, "How to tell if Your Date is Lying, Married or Otherwise Undesirable."

Seminars and joint ventures with dating coaches and online dating websites are being developed, and a series of new searches are planned for online access including the ability to get marriage and divorce records (faster than if you went to the courthouse yourself) as well as the ability to research real property records, tax liens, judgments, bankruptcies, address history, aliases, vehicle and aircraft ownership. In the meantime, people can call Cathy at 949 635-4923 with any questions about this kind of public record search.

Taylor is long-time freelance writer and she is also developing a series of articles that helps women in particular, listen to their intuition when it comes to reading someone in general and specifically whether or not they are lying. Some of this information is based on Paul Ekman's F.A.C.E. training; who is the man behind the new television series Lie to Me. Cathy Taylor is the founder of Creative Communications specializing in internet marketing including website design and ebook publishing. Her ebook publications include www.HowtoConquermenopause.com - www.Stop-Sex-Offenders.com and www.SilentNightTreatment.com

Cathy also co-founded a public records researching company, www.Apscreen.com, in 1980 that was the impetus for starting up her new venture. Taylor has hundreds of publication credits and you view some of her online articles HERE. She can be reached by phone at (949) 635-4293, or via cathy@sweetheartchecks.com or creativecommunications@cox.net.

NABBW Featured Member

Introducing NABBW Member
Lillian Weber . . .

Growing up in Manitoba, Canada, NABBW member Lillian Weber always wanted to be a nurse. She never thought this career would change into having her own business in her fifties. In fact, when she was young, Lillian thought people in their fifties were old. Says Lillian, "It has been a thrilling and scary, mind building and mind exhausting experience that I will always treasure."

While nursing w

as an enjoyable career, a knee injury forced her to look at other options. Soon she married, had a family, and sewed crafts out of old blue jeans which led to doing alterations, and to production sewing out of her home for a Manitoba company. Lillian discovered that it was fun fixing fitting problems with clothes. The sewing alterations brought her into contact with ladies who had mastectomy surgery and one woman mentioned with such sadness in her voice that because of her mastectomy, she had teddies hanging in her closet she could no longer wear, and clothes with spaghetti straps, too. Lillian recommended sewing teddies and clothes with spaghetti straps, with breast form pockets in them. A lingerie shop owner also offered that ladies were having a hard time finding nightwear with breast form pockets. That was a challenge that Lillian, now 50 years old, could not turn down!

After facing total frustration with trying to make commercial sewing patterns fit, especially in the bust area, she bought pattern drafting books and taught herself how to draft a pattern from scratch to individual measurements. One aspect, how to change a sewing pattern to fit different bust cup sizes, kept eluding her but she knew when faced with a problem, the answer usually is found when you keep on searching. And so she did.

Now after 6 years of "schooling" in pattern drafting, marketing, running a business, and learning about website user friendliness, JSAW Mastectomy Designs offers ladies with mastectomies not just the average normal, small, medium or large B and C cup-sized garment. The mastectomy sensitive camisoles, breast cancer surgery recovery bras, and nightgowns are custom made to individual ladies measurements and needs - combination size or otherwise size, boomer waist or boomer hips, bust cup size ranging from A to L, petite or long or both, high front neckline or low, high underarm height or low, snug or tight, with one or two breast form pockets. All these options are there with a click of the mouse in the online store.

Lillian's passion about JSAW Mastectomy Designs is that everyone deserves to have the opportunity to get clothes th

at fit your particular body shape, size and need. Especially the ladies who so valiantly and courageously have fought, and are fighting, the battle with breast cancer. To Lillian, as the founder of JSAW Mastectomy Designs, this means providing help to individual ladies with their mastectomy clothing challenges through custom made-to-your-measurements-and-needs garments for a time in their lives that is challenging and difficult.

Besides working at designing mastectomy clothes, drafting individual sewing patterns, sewing the clothes, learning about outsourcing work, and keeping the online store up to date, she also teaches seminars on how to draft a sewing pattern from scratch with your measurements using the manual she authored, How To Transform Your Body Curves Into A Sewing Pattern. Included in the book are tips for how to take measurements and make adaptations to the sewing pattern for a mastectomy touched body. For more information, Email Lillian.

NABBW Monthly Teleseminars

NABBW JULY TELESEMINAR

Avoiding the Physical Limitations of Past Generations
Removing, Re-training, and Relaxing!

Thursday July 30, 2009
3:00 pm (EST)
with
Kathi Casey
www.kathicaseypilates.com

The NABBW is excited to have as the host of the JULY teleseminar, Kathi Casey, www.kathicaseypilates.com producer and star of her own TV show, "To Your Health." Kathi is certified in Pilates, an experienced registered Hatha Yoga Teacher, a certified Acu-Yoga Teacher, and has taken advanced courses in Pilates, Somatics, QiQong, Tai Partner Yoga, and Healing Touch. She has over 20 yrs experience working with special needs populations.

Here are just a few items that participants can expect to learn:

How stress affects our health - a recently released 20 year study by Kaiser Permanente reported that 70 - 85% of illness in America is caused by stress.
2 quick and easy techniques that have been proven to lower Blood Pressure. (These can be done at the same time to save time)
Why it's so important to start re-training your body now to regain your youthful health. Many muscles in our bodies have forgotten how to relax due to years of stressful living and simply need to be re-trained.
Another easy technique that releases tension in the neck and shoulders which anyone can do anywhere and takes very little time.
How to remove the welcome mat for Osteoporosis from your hips.
The 3 best exercises for improving memory and concentration.
Why laughter really is the best medicine! Science has proven that sustained laughter reduces 3 stress hormones in the body, releases endorphins or "feel good" hormones AND gives our Immune Systems a boost!
Throw away your scales! How much we weigh is not as important as how we look and feel. Building leaner muscle (which weighs more than fat) burns more calories and gives us powerful long term benefits.
Why starting small, taking baby steps and rewarding ourselves yields longer lasting results in our fitness routines - especially if we have not worked out regularly before.
Meditation can be done while walking, writing, or simply counting our breath. It's not a practice that takes years to master or is as difficult as some think and the health benefits are enormous.

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Virginia Ellen - Suddenly Young Again
To listen, click HERE!
To read, click HERE!

Jed Diamond - Male Menopause, Irritable Male Syndrome, and Midlife
To listen, click HERE!
To read, click HERE!

Boomer Reviews

Reviews are a service we provide for NABBW members. Email us for details. NOTE: Once submitted, please allow ample time for reading/reviewing. Books and other products will not be returned.

Click Book or CD Covers to read reviews

Writing Contest!

The National Association of Baby Boomer Women announces a new writing contest...

Boomer Women Speak
How my Life Changed in One Moment

According to Sue William Silverman, author of Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir, everyone has a story to tell. Here is your assignment from Sue in order to help you get started telling yours.

In 500 words or less, write one scene, a mini-memoir, depicting your life-changing event. Be sure to include sensory details. Here is an example: Think of a woman trying to write about how one night over dinner, in an expensive restaurant, her husband announced he was leaving her. She might describe the sound of rain pelting the windows, the noise of the happy couples surrounding them, or maybe the soup growing cold in the bowl. All of these details help reinforce her feelings at this crucial junction of her life.

Now it's your turn to write a short scene that shows your own life-changing moment. Where did the event happen? Who were you with? How did it impact the larger story of your life?

CONTEST GUIDELINES:
Using 500 words or less, set a scene, using some sensory details, that describes one life-changing moment. Think about;

How this moment marked a turning point, a beginning or an ending;

How you feel about that event now, reflecting back, with the advantage of hindsight;

If it was a sad or traumatic moment, did you overcome it and ultimately feel empowered? Or, if it was a joyous occasion, what did you learn from that?

Please submit your entry in the BODY OF THE EMAILto contest@nabbw.com with Confessions in the subject line. Include your name, email address, and short bio (no more than 75 words) with the email entry. Entries needing editing will not be accepted.

DEADLINE:
August 31, 2009

PRIZES ARE:
GRAND PRIZE - 100.00 and F-R-E-E membership or renewal in the NABBW.

FIRST RUNNER UP - An autographed copy of Fearless Confessions PLUS a copy of Sue Silverman's two memoirs.
SECOND RUNNER UP - An autographed copy of Fearless Confessions

Associate's Columns

Natalie Caine - Almost an Empty Nester...On the way to Emptying Your Nest
Jan Cullinane - Antibiotics for Free?
Jed Diamond - Hey Guys, Are You Depressed and Don't Know It?
Barbara Friesner - Enjoying Your Vacation with Mom
Regina Leeds - Ask the Organizer
Sherri McConnell - The Two Most Important Intentions You Can Set in Your Life and Business
Georgia Richardson - Weather Wimps are Alive and Living in the South
Nan Russell - Choosing a Path
Judith Sherven - Can You Be Loved for Being Different?
Janice Taylor - Is the Food Industry Changing Your Chemistry - An Interview with David Kessler, M.D

Member News

Shelley Hussey
www.shelleyhussey.com
Shelley Hussey, author of I'm Not OK, You're Not OK, But That's OK With God, will be speaking on the topic of book marketing to the Christian Authors Guild, Monday, July 20th at 7:00 pm. Location is the Tommy Nobis Center, 1480 Bells Ferry Road, Marietta, Georgia 30066. For more information visit HERE. Shelley's book was also the featured review this month on NABBW and the review can be read at this LINK.

Judith Sherven, PhD
www.judithandjim.com
www.smartweddingcouples.com
Judith Sherven, PhD and her husband Jim Sniechowski, PhD have authored their 5th book - #1 bestseller, The Heart of Marketing - Love Your Customers and They Will Love You Back (Morgan James Publishing, May 2009) with 62 Free Launch Gifts still available when you get their book through this LINK.

Eileen Bodoh and Katherine Scherer, authors of Gratitude Works
www.gratitudeworks.com
Eileen Bodoh and Katherine Scherer are currently writing daily gratitudes for www.thankgodi.com. To receive these inspirational messages, go to the website and join the community at no charge.

Nancy Mattison
www.storybookquilts.biz
Name the Turtle Contest
Simply click on "Name the Turtle Contest" at the top of our webpage. The contest runs through August 30th and will name [Turtle], the theme character in the latest Storybook Quilt. Each Storybook Quilt combines a patchwork quilt with a children's adventure story, based on the fabrics in the quilt. So, grab a glass of lemonade, put on your thinking cap, consult the children in your life, and help us find a name for [Turtle]!

Gregory Anne Cox
www.midlifewithavengeance.com
Gregory Anne Cox, The midlife women's Lifestyle Tune Up expert just launched 3 new coaching programs. NABBW members get a 10% discount. If it's finally time to get the weight or health thing handled, head over to the program page and pick the program that's right for you.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson
www.howtodoitfrugally.com
Carolyn Howard-Johnson will teach "Creating a Promotion Campaign for Your Fiction or Nonfiction Book." A one-day seminar, it will meet on the UCLA campus' School of Public Affairs Building (Room 2317) Saturday, August 1, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. Learn more about the class (only $125!) HERE.

p.m. terrell
www.pmterrell.com
www.maryneely.com
Internationally acclaimed author p.m.terrell will appear at Austin Peay State University from July 23 through 25 in Clarksville, TN as part of the Clarksville Writers Conference. She'll be speaking several times about writing historical books, writing suspense/thrillers, and marketing and promotion. For more details, visit HERE.

Anita Stelling
www.shopbestweddingsite.com
Anita Stelling, CEO of www.shopbestweddingsite.com is excited to be a part of the NABBW and the forum community at Boomer Women Speak. Her website is the only major One Stop Shop Best Wedding Site nation-wide and world-wide. She invites you to visit her site, and to look it over, where you will find elegant, numerous quality products for weddings and special occasions.

EllynAnne Geisel
www.apronmemories.com
EllynAnne Geisel, author of The Apron Book, Apronisms, Apron Chronicles & The Kitchen Linens Book is tickled pink to be featured in the current issues of Romantic Homes and Paula Deen Cooks! To sign up for EllynAnne's newsletter, click HERE.

Lynn C. Tolson
www.beyondthetears.com
Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor's Story by Lynn C. Tolson is required reading at Towson Universityfor the "Issues in Domestic Violence" course. Students must write a reflection paper. One student said, "Yes, it was required reading and everyone loved it, inspiring and helpful. " Lynn was BWS featured author and also hosted a NABBW tele-seminar. Visit Lynn HERE.

Marlene Chism, Author of Success is a Given
Sign up for the 3 Myths and 4 Lies of Success
www.successisagiven.com
Relationship Builder Booklet includes free gratitude letter. You can send in the mail to a client or use as a staff development tool. For more information go HERE.