Monday, December 15, 2014



Second Lives Club is overjoyed to be hosting Fashion Flash this week!  In the runup to the holidays we have much on our plate and our minds.  These lifestyle bloggers will ease the strain with shopping (consignment shops and unique gifts for men), beauty (faster hair drying, merry berry look and a drugstore cosmetic swap), health (holiday stress and your skin, alcohol effects on your health, low-fat myths and control of your sex life) and how to project good overall body image!

Sunday, July 20, 2014

We're Hosting Fashion Flash

You've seen the Fashion Flash logo and link on our site already but this week we're hosting - our first time!  We are thrilled to be a member of this select group of lifestyle bloggers that covers a range of topics of special interest to women over 40.  And this week they've outdone themselves.  Just see for yourselves.... 

Monday, May 26, 2014

Fashion Flash (Memorial Day) Monday: Summer is officially here!



Are you ready?  You will be after checking out our line-up of posts for you this week being hosted by Barbara Hannah Grufferman at Best of Everything After 50! Fitness, hair, nails, clothes and just overall positive living.  Also learn about a woman who took the fear out of putting on her bathing suit...all for her nonprofit.

Monday, May 19, 2014

It's Fashion Flash Monday with a range of topics important to second lifers.

We are excited to announce that Second Lives Club has joined Fashion Flash, a select group of lifestyle blogs for women in midlife. Fashion Flash covers a wide range of topics including health, skin care, fitness, fashion, make-up and reinvention and is one of the largest forty plus women communities on the web.  Visit any Fashion Flash site on Monday mornings to get a unique perspective on areas of interest to women living their second lives.



This week the site Moving Free With Mirabai is hosting Fashion Flash.  Some of this week's posts are on osteoporosis, thinning hair, spring colors and easy exercises.  And I think you will find Barbara Shaiman's life as instructive as we did!  Enjoy these latest Fashion Flash posts. 

Friday, May 2, 2014

Jenny Bowen: 1st Life – Filmmaker, 2nd Life – Homemaker, Chinese Orphans


Why was Jenny the only American selected by popular vote to carry the Olympic Torch during the Beijing Summer Olympics?

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Judi Henderson-Townsend: 1st Life – Account Executive, 2nd Life – Mannequin Madame

                                                                                                                         (Photo-Senior Entrepreneurship Works) 

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Ann Buttenwieser: 1st Life - Motherhood, 2nd Life - "Floating Pool Lady"

                                                                                                                         (Photo: Etienne Frossard)

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

New Year, New You, New Second Lives Club

                                                                                                               (photo-Happy Herbivore Blog)
Happy New Year, and it is truly a new one for SecondLivesClub.com. We’re changing platforms in more ways than one!  As we come up with some new directions to enhance our community, this blog will continue with some guest posts but be more focused on identifying and promoting exemplary 2nd Life role models.  We want to feature one a week and, in fact you can help.  If you know of a 50+ woman who is in the process of establishing or already living her second life that you think stands out above the rest, let us know and we will feature her.  

Women taking bigger leaps and risks can make for livelier reading but these stories don't have to be about major makeovers. They don't even have to be about reaching the end goal but rather about taking those first baby steps.  And they don't have to be about saving the world, they can be about having a personal adventure. "Reinvention is really ambiguity fused with self confidence", as was redefined for us last night by Jan Pauley promoting her new book on this subject at the 92St. Y in Manhattan.  

Some of you may remember the profile we did on Susan who left her career as a film maker to write her first novel and start a nonprofit organization. And there's Marsha who left corporate America to build her own career counseling company. Maggie was a linguist before joining a real estate venture catering to empty nesters. Now let us introduce you to Annabel Davis who spent 20 years as a police constable in the UK and is now an in demand model and actress at age 60? Want to know how she did it? Read on…