Fiftyshift.com was launched in 2008 as a website and print publisher for midlife and boomer women to share their humor, knowledge and ideas. We do this through essays, blog posts and reported news stories.

We pay our own way: In the interest of  journalistic standards and providing reliable, unbiased information about the products, clothes, trips, books we write about, we accept no freebies from anyone.

Fiftyshift was produced using a template from the global, open-source community that contributes to www.drupal.org. Thank you, Drupalistas!

Editor and publisher B.J. Roche is a former freelance columnist for The Boston Globe, and currently a writer and senior lecturer in the Journalism Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Writer Elizabeth Luciano is assistant professor of Language and Literature at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania. 

Writer Katherine Mayfield lives in Maine. She is the author of two books and blogs about life after caregiving at www. katherine-mayfield.com

Blogger and essayist Helene Powers is an educational consultant and speaker on caregiving issues who lives in Florence, Mass. E-mail: hjpowers@verizon.net.

Writer Karen List is director of the Journalism Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. E-mail: klist@journ.umass.edu.

Writer Madeleine Blais is a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist and author who teaches in the Journalism Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. E-mail: mhblais@journ.umass.edu.

Writer Catherine Fisher is a recent grad of the UMass Journalism Program, and lives in Alabama.

Writer Julie Fredrick is a former clinical social worker and current adventure travel consultant who lives in Atlanta. Read her work on her website, or her European travel blog.

Writer Pat Leuchtman is a retired librarian and garden columnist for The Recorder of Greenfield, Mass. Her blog is Commonweeder.

Writer Jackie Brousseau-Pereira is director of external affairs for the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Graphics and web management by Canali Designs,  Heath, Mass.