I started “The Fifties Project” to help me answer my question “what am I going to do with my life once our two daughters have flown out and our nest is empty?”
I’m hoping to find inspiration in the stories of other women around 50 years of age who started doing something new/different around this age, and share their stories with other “middle-aged” women who may be asking themselves the same question.
About Me
My family
I’m the loving mother of 2 daughters (rising senior at UW and rising junior at UCSC) and happily married to my husband of almost 24 years!
My work
I own a small Music Together center in San Jose, CA (smileynotes.com), I’m the Super Stars and Rising Stars program manager at angelsonstage.org, a theatre troupe for children and young adults with special needs, and I teach two classes at California Community Opportunites (ca-cco.org), an organization committed to providing purposeful lives for adults with special needs. I’m also an avid tennis player with ambitions to reach a higher level (4.5 but really my dream is being a 5.0).
My future?
While I love all these activities and they certainly take up quite a lot of my time (and I also like to have time to just chill and hang out with my husband and kids, I am trying to figure out if this is what I want to keep doing in my fifties (and maybe sixties). Hence: The Fifties Project!
Want to share your story?
Are you a woman who started doing something new/different around 50 years of age? Want to share your story with women like me who are trying to figure out what to do in this stage of their lives? Please contact me for an interview: meike.huizinga@gmail.com