The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50

by Susan Swartz

The Ripe Stuff Jane Fonda, Judy Collins, and Isabel Allende are in their juicy years. So are a Midwest banker and Boston professor, a therapist who became a Mexican inn-keeper, an empty nester who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572244321
• ISBN13: 9781572244320
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Fabulous Fifty and Over Women!

This was a fun, ego boosting read. I actually bought three books in anticipation of my 50th birthday and they were all good but this one made me laugh out loud. It also made me realize that 50 is just the second chapter of my life, not the ending.

Wanna read a guy's review of this?

There is something especially rewarding about reading a non-fiction book that has you just nodding your head in agreement throughout. The book jacket says it's about life after 50, a point I haven't reached yet, from the female perspective, a point I'm not aiming at. It is that, but it's more. It's about life in general, and you'll want to read it straight through, guaranteed. Honest, wise, humor which is totally unforced, and a very easy-to-read style that only comes from a writer who works as hard as possible to ensure the reader isn't aware she's worked at all. I've been assembling a little "reference shelf" of books that I won't sell to the local used bookshops. This book is on that shelf.

Doctors, Doctors Everywhere

I'm not quite fifty yet, but I knew I had to read this book after Susan interviewed me for her chapter, Take Care of Those Tootsies. The chapters dedicated to medical problems in women over fifty are short, smart and funny. Susan Swartz is able to bring humor to difficult subjects. "Make the Damned Appointment" is how she starts these chapters and this tone is carried throughout her book. I love the short chapters, the tips listed in the columns and the humor injected into the absurd things women deal with throughout life. I would recommend this book not only to ALL women over fifty, but also to women approaching fifty.

Ripe on!: when you admire your friend, give her this book

This is the kind of practical, fun to read and inspiring book that reminds us of our ripe side. In sharing it with friends and suggesting it at associations of professional women when I speak at their annual conferences I always suggest that they find a good woman friend and read sections out loud to each other (been such a rich experience for me)- to reinforce in each other that we can all be scouts (and share what we discover) for the adventures and contributions we can create for these next chapters of our life stories - as we choose to live them. Kudos to Susan... and when is your next book coming out?!

Here's a new image of the 50+ age woman

Here's a new image of the 50+ age woman: someone who enjoys her lushness and gets the most out of life. Here experience is an asset and women's power is touted as a strength, not something to be ashamed of. THE JUICY TOMATOES GUIDE TO RIPE LIVING AFTER 50 uses the biographical sketches of women who live this ideal to demonstrate how the best years can be lived after 50. Diane C. Donovan, Editor California Bookwatch