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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Three women write in depth about Creating Our Lives After 50
This is right up the Tempo Toronto alley, if you’ll pardon the expression. Three women – Renee Fisher, Joyce Kramer and Jean Peelen – got together to write a follow-up book to Invisible No More, The Secret Lives of Women Over 50, which presented fifty as something new. This new self help/personal growth book provides “enlightening and very real experiences of aging and reinvention”.
In this easy to read 227 pager, three women tell their real life stories in many life categories – sexuality, dating, money, faith and spirituality, our mothers, loss and friendship – and succeed in making anyone and everyone feel, well, completely normal. If nothing else, the accounts make the reader feel as if they are not alone, and that the journey we are all on is paralleled and shared by the countless over-fifties that are also rediscovering themselves, their dreams and planning a vibrant future.
It was impossible to put it down, so relevant was the material within. It can and will touch the lives and hearts of all women who read it. Our readers were unanimous in their appreciation of the open sharing that goes on in the book. We were not all to keen on the exercises at the end of each chapter, but for those who need structure the process of answering the questions for oneself can be extremely revealing moments, the epiphany some of us seek. Whether you do the exercises or not, it’s a riveting and inspiring read.
Priced at USD $18.95
iUniverse publishers, www.iuniverse.com
www.invisiblenomore.com – for more on these American writers
Tags: dating, faith and spirituality, friendship, Life after 50, loss, money, mothers, sexuality, tempo toronto, women creating new lives
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Russell Peters hosts variety show for Gilda’s Club
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Line-up of supreme Canadian talent, The Canadian Tenors close off the evening, all for Gilda’s Club
What an amazing evening! All-star, all Canadian, cast of entertainers kept the audience rapt or laughing out loud for two hours straight. This line-up of extraordinary Canadian talent donated their time for a great cause – Gilda’s Club. If you didn’t get tickets for this year, you’ll want to make sure you do in 2010.
Tickets for “Toronto’s Number One Night of Entertainment”, It’s Always Something, an evening of comedy, music and dance in support of Gilda’s Club, Greater Toronto, went on sale on Monday, September 28. This eighth annual Variety Show took place on Monday, November 23 at the Princess of Wales Theatre. It’s a benefit in support of Gilda’s Club, named after Gilda Radner of Saturday Night Live fame. Gilda lost her battle with ovarian cancer in 1989, but not before imagining a place where people touched by cancer could go for social and emotional support.
Back for his third consecutive year of hosting, was Canada’s number one comedian and Gemini Award winner Russell Peters, with another all-star cast of comedians, musicians and dancers all donating their talents to Gilda’s Club, Greater Toronto, a cancer care centre providing free emotional and support programs for kids, teens and adults living with cancer, and their families.
Joining Russell was legendary Second City and SCTV star Dave Thomas, former Barenaked 
Ladies lead singer Steven Page, three of the acclaimed vocal group of four – The Canadian Tenors (all four pictured above, but as one was unwell only three pictured at the left with Tempo Toronto Publisher Tina Rogers), comedian and musical theatre star Sean Cullen, Canadian R&B artist and 2009 Juno winner Divine Brown, stars of the Emmy-nominated “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Colin Mochrie (pictured right) and Brad Sherwood, and comedian Irwin Barker. Eugene Levy also stepped on stage to address the crowd of 2000.
As one of the must-attend and always sold out events of the entertainment year, all proceeds go to support Gilda’s Club, Greater Toronto. Over its first seven years, the show raised more than $2.5 million to fulfill Gilda’s wish that “no one should face cancer alone.”
If you missed it you may want to plan to go next year, November 2010. There’s more information at www.itsalwayssomething.ca, and about Gilda’s Club, Greater Toronto at www.gildasclubtoronto.org. Media relations for the event were in the capable hands of dkpr Public Relations Inc. www.dkpr.ca
Tags: Colin Mochrie, Dave Thomas, Divine Brown, Gilda's Club, Princess of Wales Theatre, Russell Peters, Steven Page, tempo toronto, The Canadian Tenors
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