Secondhalfstories.com is both a resource and a sounding board. A place to find out more about these little known and extremely important movies and novels, it also provides you with a forum in which to discuss them and their uses—in your own lives, in the lives of your colleagues, students, and friends, and in the concerted effort by the members of this still small but rapidly growing community to move beyond the negative and now hopelessly outdated notion of life's second half as a time for stagnation and decline.

So please tell us how you feel—about individual movies or novels, about our elderquest and gender and aging programs, and about your own involvement in helping us to see the new old age as these film makers and novelists have already begun to imagine it—not as the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning—a time to experiment, to grow, to transform, and to become more fully outselves.

We've divided our forums into four general topics, but please feel free to comment on, disagree, question or muse on anything that strikes you as important, relevant, or wrong headed about these stories and the whole new life stage they are beginning to flesh out for us. And, once again, welcome to the second half stories community.