Flip-Flops After Fifty

The collection of essays in Flip-Flops After Fifty will immediately amuse, enlighten, and provoke the reader to think about the topics that affect all of us. This writer has experienced some of life’s painful jabs and has come through it all with strength, humor, and having learned a lesson or two. And she’s happy to share these lessons with others. Who hasn’t dealt with the emotions from family events, stress from lousy jobs, or the bittersweet feelings when the kids leave home? Not to mention body image, high school reunions, and parenting. It’s all covered here in this first collection of personal and insightful essays. Chapters include: “Family”, “The Holidays” and “Fifty.”

Eastman’s conversational style and easy humor tackle the sublime and the ridiculous, the sacred and the profane. After a certain age, and it’s no secret that it’s fifty, Eastman’s essays argue that attitudes change for the better. Making decisions gets easier, although there’s no guarantee that life does. Even so, her writing allows us to take a look at our own issues with the reassuring handholding of a confidante. This is a collection that you will want to keep for yourself as well as give to a friend.

Author: Cindy Eastman

Publication Date: April 8, 2014

Categories: Non-fiction, Spring 2014

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“I really loved reading Flip-Flops After 50. It brought me back to good and bad, happy and sad times in my life with perfect reason. Cindy Eastman has artfully made turning 50 and beyond a good thing and one I realized I was glad to have had the good fortune to be a part of. This is a must-read for every woman soon to be turning 50 and beyond. This can easily be and should be the handbook of the baby boomer generation.”
— Trudi LoPreto for Readers’ Favorite

“Cindy Eastman’s Flip-Flops After 50 is as funny, warm, and inviting as its title. Filled with the kind of everyday humor that made Erma Bombeck everybody’s favorite columnist, Eastman’s wit and generosity reach out to embrace the reader. With every laugh, there’s a moment of recognition and a sense of camaraderie.”
—Dr. Gina Barreca, professor of English and feminist theory and author of It’s Not That I’m Bitter, or How I Stopped Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World

“Cindy Eastman’s honest, straight-talking wisdom evokes Margaret Young, who said, ‘You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.’ Heartwarming, humorous, and often inspirational, these essays will touch the spirit of every woman fortunate enough to turn fifty.”
—Jan Coffey, award-winning, best-selling author of Silent Waters

“With great insight, and a healthy dose of self-deprecating wit, Cindy Eastman’s prose sparkles. Reading her essays is like sharing coffee (or perhaps a Skinny Vanilla Latte) and great conversation with a friend, one who doesn’t pretend to have all the answers but rather finds joy in exploring life’s quirks and questions. Whether discussing fitness or parenting, love or loss, her words— equally rich in skill and sincerity—are moving and true. Flip-Flops After 50 delights.”
—Steven Parlato, author of The Namesake

About the Author

Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1958, Cindy Eastman was raised in Louisville, Kentucky. She attended undergraduate schools in Austin, Texas and graduate school in Springfield, Massachusetts and holds a Master’s degree in Education. After writing a weekly column for the Waterbury Observer, she began publishing essays on her website, Writing Out Loud.

Her career in education has taken a wide and diverse route from teaching computer skills to elementary schoolchildren to facilitating professional learning communities for teachers and teaching English as an adjunct to college freshmen at a community college.

Currently, she coordinates a supervised visitation service with her husband in his counseling practice and does diversity and anti-bullying trainings for the Anti-Defamation League. She also teaches a writing course for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the Waterbury campus of UConn. Eastman makes her home in Connecticut with her husband, Angelo, and their cat. She is working on a second collection of essays when she is not babysitting her grandson