The Surprising Story Behind the Poem “When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple”
The poem’s actually titled “Warning” and it celebrates aging with panache. English poet Jenny Joseph wrote in 1961 at 29. Did she fulfill her own prophecy?
The poem’s actually titled “Warning” and it celebrates aging with panache. English poet Jenny Joseph wrote in 1961 at 29. Did she fulfill her own prophecy?
In 1924, at age 56, a genteel Frenchwoman disguised as a peasant hiked through the Himalayas to become the first Western woman into Tibet’s forbidden city, Lhasa.
Susan Boyle made a difficult entrance into the world and life remained hard for her—until that magical night in 2009 when her voice captivated the world.
Lilian Jackson Braun published her first “A Cat Who…” mystery at 53. Publishers rejected her fourth installment because it lacked sex and violence. But she prevailed!
Erma Bombeck’s humor column didn’t launch until she was almost 40. It ran for more than 30 years, appeared in 900 papers, and made her a household name.
Death Valley Junction is no field of dreams. But for fifty years, dancer Marta Becket built it into an oasis of creative expression. She rescued a ghost town theater, and they came in droves.
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