Coming of Age...
All Over Again
The Ultimate Midlife Handbook

By Kate Klimo and Buffy Shutt

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Published by Springboard Press
ISBN: 0-8121-5839-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-8121-5839-2

 
This is not your mother's midlife!

Kate Klimo and Buffy Shutt have been best friends since they met more than thirty years ago on their first day of college. In the intervening years, they've helped each other through everything: love for their kids, frustrations with their husbands, job successes, health scares -- all of the ups and downs of daily life. But a funny thing happened when Kate and Buffy reached their fiftieth birthdays. At just about the time their AARP cards arrived in the mail, they found themselves facing a whole new set of midlife challenges that took them totally by suprise:

• What happens when my Mom can't live alone anymore?
• Will my kids ever leave the nest?
• How can I stay connected to my friends?
• What are the most important four things in my life?

Never fear! Kate and Buffy are here to share with you everything you could possibly need to inform, transform, and inspire your own fabulous Coming of Age... All Over Again.

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"My midlife crisis began when I read this book and realized all the things I needed to start doing... this is a must read for all grown up women!"

-- Laurie David, Activist

"A wise, funny, and exhaustive how-to guide for the midlife moment when you're just beginning to need a new perspective."

-- Lynda Obst, producer of Sleepless in Seattle and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
and author of Hello, He Lied and Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches

"Coming of Age is a seriously researched, ideologically neutral, sometimes whimsical, and always spectacularly skillful playbook on the vital steps to reconfigure your life. ...What is unique here is the infusion of personal details from the authors' own lives ...and their day-to-day struggles is the added inspiration that will take readers over the top, into actual realization of the book's core and timely message: we can do it."

-- Jonathan Jackson, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist

"Charming, funny, filled with great resources, and written by great gals."

-- Sharon Stone

"An amazingly comprehensive guide for facing the challenges of midlife and beyond. If Coming of Age doesn't address it, it's just not an issue."

-- Libby Gill, author of Traveling Hopefully

"The midlife journey for women gets a little easier with Buffy and Kate along as traveling companions. An essential tool for women dealing with midlife issues."

-- Pat Gaudette, co-author of How to Survive Your Husband's Midlife Crisis

"Not to fear, friends are here. Kate and Buffy will feel like your best friends as they lead you through a warm, funny, and spot-on guide to getting the most out of the second chapter of your life. Their writing is so personal and vibrant, you'll feel like they're in your kitchen having coffee with you."

-- Joanna Johnson, writer and creator of the TV series Hope & Faith

"It's a great book, funny, piercing, to the bone. 'Sandy, Super Senior!' had me laughing and crying. And the stuff about growing up kids. The running side margin contact points: brilliant (along with the thoughtful asides like your recommending the audio version of The Year of Magical Thinking). 'Write it Down' is great too. And hurrah for Chapter 5. 'Self-Help' isn't right at all; it's more autobiogaphy. A twinned autobiography, one friend's life playing off against the other's as they provoke and inspire each other. The stories from your own lives are simply wonderful. This isn't just a book for women and it isn't just for midlifers. This is EVERYBODY'S BOOK! Brava!"

-- Alan Armstrong, Newbery Honor-winning author of Whittington

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