There are no hard and fast rules on how one gets to the other side of 50, says veteran South African journalist Charlotte Bauer, who recently released her first book – on navigating midlife in a world obsessed with youth.
Menopause. Award-winning journalist and author, Charlotte Bauer, hates that scientific, black-and-white technical term of age.
Haffajee sat down at the webinar with her friend and colleague to unpack her witty, irreverent book, well-received by many who row a similar boat to Bauer, who was whacked hard when she turned 50. According to Bauer, frankness was exactly what she hoped to reflect in her story, alongside the stories of other women – including the key characters of her fierce mother, rebellious auntie and three sisters – shared in the book.
While Bauer, who was a Nieman fellow of journalism at Harvard University, didn’t miss the titles, prestige or conference rooms, at the start, she struggled to come to terms with life after resigning, and with being 50. Bauer was in transit, she was clinging to the person she had known and at the same time watching another materialise in the mirror before her.
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