Be Brave, Lose the Beige: Finding Your Sass After Fifty

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Meet Beige. Beige is reliable, practical, sensible, and safe. Beige doesnt put up a fuss; it follows the rules, blends in, doesnt want to stand out. Now meet Magenta. Magenta is rich, dynamic, loud, sometimes garish, and not easily overlooked.

Society has decidedly beige expectations when it comes to aging, and the intrinsic danger of beige and its many practical aspects is that it precludes creative thinking. Creative thinking is critical in avoiding a beige aging journey. Be Brave. Lose the Beige! Finding Your Sass after Sixty encourages women to trot out their inner magenta and defy those beige expectations.

Be Brave. Lose the Beige! started as a blog and morphed into a movement. This movement gently pokes fun at ageist rules and expectations. It says yes when the rest of the world keeps saying no. In these pages, Liz Kitchens chronicles how creative thinking helped her cope with empty nest syndrome, navigate sex over sixty, transition from being outtasight to literally being out-of-sight . . . and so much more.

The stories and creative techniques outlined in this book are guaranteed to introduce color, sass, and a lightness of spirit into your later years. Are you ready to start coloring outside the lines, even if a few pesky rules get trampled in the process

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Liz Kitchens would make Erma Bombeck cackle, leave Ann Landers at a loss for words, and make Gloria Steinem proud. Be Brave. Lose the Beige! is the medicine we didnt know we needed after the pandemic. Liz has tackled tough subjects, made us laugh, said things were all thinking about but havent put into words, and, best of all, given women a nudge (and a roadmap) to enjoy life more.
Rannah Gray, author of Familiar Evil and The Case of the Missing Poodle

Author Bio

Liz Kitchens is a rare and endangered species, born and raised in Orlando, Florida, whose memory of Florida pre-dates Walt Disney World. She conducts workshops and seminars on creativity and directed an after-school and summer creative arts program for teens in underserved communities. She has also been a market researcher for thirty-five years and is the founder of Whats Next Boomer a website dedicated to helping boomers navigate retirement optionsand of the blog Be Brave. Lose the Beige, which focuses on issues facing women of the baby boomer generation. She is also a contributing writer for Medium and the online magazine Sixty and Me, and has been published in various online and print publications. Liz is married, the mother of three adult children, and the grandmother of three grandchildren. She lives in Orlando, FL.