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Ladies’ Night
When family, work and relationships are all fighting for their attention, many women join social clubs to put fun on the calendar. From neighborhood and office book clubs to bunco groups that play the dice game into the wee hours of the night, women are gathering for many reasons.
“Having a group of women you know will get together at set intervals to let your hair down and have fun is a great way to hold yourself accountable for your own mental well-being,” says Karen Nardozza, who belongs to the Salinas, Calif. club Two Bottle Bunch, a group of women who meet monthly &mdash and allow husbands to come along &mdash to swap and share wines.
Clubs that meet for fun also offer support. Sheryl P. Kurland’s club in Orlando is named after the movie Steel Magnolias. The group mainly gets together for long lunches at restaurants, but the real benefit of the two-decade-old club is camaraderie. “We’ve been through thick and thin together,” says Kurland of her club, which, like the big-screen version, has been through lows — bouts of cancer, deaths of loved ones, divorces — as well as personal triumphs.
Even if your tastes run to quirky or atypical, there’s probably a club for you, says Donna Marsh, of Nashville, whose own organizations prove her point: She runs both the Adsagsona Paranormal Society and the Nashville Beer Society.
Looking for a club? Ask friends and co-workers if their groups are accepting new members, or start one of your own on a social networking site like Meetup.com.
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