Dear Dotsie,

"Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart . . . PURSUE THOSE." ---Anonymous


Greetings,

I hope everyone is busy pursuing whatever it is that is touching your heart. I am grateful because I've found that so much of my work is heart-touching. I thoroughly enjoy enlightening educating, empowering boomer women.

I'm gearing up to share more with you by attending the More Magazine Wilhelmina Model Search Event www.more.com in New York during February and the Boomer Summit www.boomersummit.com/ in Chicago during March. I'm also thrilled that the very first Booming Women Conference www.boomingwomen.com is being held in LA next weekend. Fran Harris is busier than ever making sure everything goes without a hitch. I know it will.

My favorite work day this year was spent judging the NABBW sponsored contest, Top Ten Things Boomer Women Want in 2007. I'm grateful for all the women who chose to enter. I was amazed by the number of similarities within each submission. You can see the results at this link: WHAT WOMEN WANT.

While reading this month's newsletter, please make note of the excellent articles our associates have written. They work very hard to give you information about topics that many of us may be experiencing on a daily basis. Also notice that I am blogging every Monday with Allison Bottke and four other Christian Boomer Babes at www.boomerbabesrock.com.

Also, be sure to read about our Featured Associate Sheri' McConnell. If you have an online business, you may consider joining her National Association of Web Entrepreneurs (AWE) of which I am a very faithful member.

We are happy to announce that when searching "baby boomer women" online, Boomerwomenspeak.com is ranked first on Google, and NABBW.COM is ranked first on Yahoo. Why not advertise with us? Email me at dots@boomerwomenspeak.com for advertising rates.

Both sites continue to attrack tons of traffic. In the last thirty days, we've had well over a hundred people sign up for this newsletter with some joining the NABBW.

That's all for this month. I hope you find time to browse the entire newsletter and share it with your friends, sisters and colleagues.


Onward with grace,
Dotsie
dots@nabbw.com

Celebrate Good Things With Us
The Year of the Boomer!
Click Here for Reduced Rate

It's "our" year. Newspapers, magazines, local and national news, Web pages, E-zines . . . every where you turn someone is announcing, declaring, or celebrating The Year of the Boomer. We've decided to celebrate as well by offering a reduced membership fee for anyone joining the NABBW by the end of February! Instead of $75.00 to join, new members will only pay $60.00! It's our way of commemorating The Year of the Boomer!

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Boomer Women Speak
Testimonial!

Dotsie Bregel is unstinting in her generosity and professional commitment to providing wisdom, knowledge and support for Boomer women. And, over the two years I've known her, I've also delighted in her humor, optimism, and intelligence. She's a nugget!

Judith Sherven, PhD
www.makingtheordinaryextraordinary. com/

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MORE Magazine
MORE/Wilhelmina 40+ Model Search Finals Event
Celebrating Women Over 40

www.more.com Dotsie Bregel will be celebrating, along with many other baby boomers, with hors d'oeuvres and cocktails at the landmark Cipriani 42nd Street, mixing and mingling with VIPs, MORE editors, former Model Search winners, and the press. There will be a runway show hosted by Angela Bassett and featuring the 10 Model Search finalists wearing fashions by designer Carmen Marc Valvo. Then the big finish: the announcement of the three Wilhelmina modeling contract winners. An exciting event!

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The National Association of Baby Boomer Women is the only association devoted to addressing issues concerning 38 million of the healthiest, wealthiest, and best educated generation of women to ever hit midlife, baby boomer women.

NABBW promises:

• A membership package that includes information on self-improvement skills, free legal and financial advice using e-mail, exclusive member discounts on a variety of products and services, easy ways to connect with other boomer women, and MORE..


• A sense of belonging to a creative, powerful, encouraging group of women that will leave you feeling refreshed, revived, and renewed.


• Access to information from an enthusiastic, energetic, wise, and warm panel of experts who have written books, founded Web sites, and coached women on all topics concerning midlife women.


• JOIN before February 28, 2007 and receive a FREE copy of The Baby Boomer Almanac, by Tim Brolus - www.nabbw.com

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Boomer Babes Rock!
Boomer Babe Blog Team

Fellow author and friend Allison Bottke has invited Dotsie Bregel to be part of an exciting new blog she started, www.BoomerBabesRock.com . Six other women have been invited by Allison to co- author her blog which she describes as a lace "where fun, fashion, food, family, facts, and faith merge to empower and inspire boomer women all around the world to pursue their dreams!"

Along with Allison and Dotsie, fellow co-authors are T. Suzie Eller, Eva Marie Everson, Keri Wyatt Kent, and Connie Pombo. The co-editor of the God Allows U- Turns series, Cheryll Hutchings, will act as a "Substitute Blogger."

Dotsie will post each Monday and says "I must say it encourages me to walk through life wearing 'God's eyes' so I can stumble on an inspirational topic to blog about. I hope you'll visit us as often as possible. To find out more about the boomer blog visit www.BoomerBabesRock.com and you'll see the link on the top, right side of the page.

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The NABBW WRITING CONTEST











The National Association of Baby Boomer Women, www.nabbw.com contest, "What Boomer Women Want in 2007," is officially over.

YOU HAVE SPOKEN . . . and we have the results! Now we want to share with the rest of the world, The Top Ten Things Boomer Women Want in 2007!

To find out, please follow this link WHAT WOMEN WANT and see what women everywhere have shared.

THANK YOU! to the following for sharing information about NABBW and BWS:


Thanks to www.onlypunjab.com/ for advertising our writing contests on their site.

Thanks to Casey Dawes for mentioning Dotsie and the NABBW in her blog at cdawes.blogs.com/wisewomanshinin g /

Thanks to www.boomernet.com for including one of Dotsie's articles on their home page.

Thanks to Yan Barcelo for interviewing Dotsie for the Canadian magazine, Revue.

Thanks to journalist Kim Kabar for mentioning the NABBW in her article Change Ahead published in the LA Times.

Thanks to the West Los Angeles Living for publishing Dotsie's article about boomer women at midlife.

KC Christensen-Lang, Joyologist/Success Coach
www.toolsforpositiveliving.com/
for including NABBW and BWS in her newsletter, Virtual Moment of Joy!

Thanks to journalist Carol Sorgen for including the NABBW in her article Boomers and Beyond Meet Online published in The Beacon.

Thanks to Ginny Robertson, Founder of On Purpose Networking for including Dotsie's article about boomer women in On Purpose Women magazine.

Connie Pombo
www.womensmentoringministries.co m for adding links to BWS and NABBW.

• Barbara E. Friesner

• Gail Patterson, CEC

• Charleen Micheles's makes you an offer you can't refuse!

FEATURED GUEST AUTHORS OF THE MONTH ON BOOMER WOMEN SPEAK

Gratitude Works: Open Your Heart to Love


KATHERINE SCHERER AND EILEEN BODOH
www.gratitudeworks.com

For the month of February, we are very pleased to have NABBW members and co-authors, Katherine Schererand Eileen Bodoh as our Featured Authors in the Boomer Women Speak forums.

In their words . . .

Eileen and I both come from long business backgrounds, she as a paralegal, and myself as a partner in a family painting and decorating business. When my children were growing up, I was a religious education teacher, and my training at Family Service and the Women's Crisis line in Milwaukee helped me lead parent education groups.

Eileen's workshops with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross led her to become a hospice volunteer. Her ongoing involvement with the Austrian community in Milwaukee and Chicago in chairing cultural events resulted in her receiving the Decoration of Merit in Silver from the Republic of Austria.

We met while serving on the marketing committee for our church and feel we were brought together because we both had a burning desire to make a difference.

After attending countless workshops, including the Hospice "Twilight Brigade/Compassion in Action" training, we realized that gratitude had not been a major focus in our lives. In the process of keeping gratitude journals, the idea for our book was born. When we opened our eyes to see all the things that we were grateful for, even simple things began to appear miraculous.

While writing "Gratitude Works," we included gratitudes both mundane and extraordinary giving praise to the beauty life beholds.

Our mission is "touching lives with the spirit of gratitude." In the process of marketing our book by donations to various organizations, a small number of "Gratitude Works" ended up at a women's prison in Texas, the Plane State Jail. We've since donated over 500 books. Some of the comments we've received are:

---- "I am writing this request to ask for the touching lives with spirit of gratitude because I saw it on a buddy's bed and it touched my heart. Please mail my heart one."

---- "I would like to say thank you and how much you've made a difference in touching of lives, our hearts and feelings, our thoughts!"

We are continuing our prison work with our THREE FOR THIRTY campaign. Gratitude is our chosen path and we are too blessed to be stressed . . .

Be sure and visit the forums at BWS in February as these authors share their life experiences and teach us all about Gratitude and about expressing thankfulness for life and for the many things that we take for granted.

To learn more about these authors, visit their Web site at www.gratitudeworks.com.