The Girls With Grandmother Faces Author:Frances Weaver From Introduction: — Not many years ago I was in the middle of a busy morning. Sarah was tagging along, helping me around the house. — What're you doin', Grandma?" — "I'm straightening the living room. The girls are coming for bridge this afternoon." — "What girls, Grandma?" By now the kid was jumping... more » on the couch.
"You know, Sarah. The girls I play bridge with on Wednesdays. My friends..."
"Yeah, yeah. I know!" she crowed. "You mean the girls with the grandmother faces."
These girls are my peer group, my generation. We constitute the fastest growing segment of our population. Women over 55 have more discretionary buying power, better health, better housing, more freedom to move around, more opportunities for continuing education, more leisure time, more labor-saving devices, more knowledge of the world around us than any single group in the history of the world. Ever. We also have 20 percent of our lives still ahead of us with choices available for improving the quality of our lives as never before. We are, in a very real sense, blessed by the world in which we live."« less