What is Retirement?

Have your dreams of retirement become lost in a distant haze?  Are wondering if you will ever be able to quit work?  With the deepest postwar recession many of us…

One of the most important tasks as we age is to begin to shed the mantle of who we thought we were, who we were supposed to be or who…

I recently wrote a response to a David Brooks column” The Geezers’ Crusade”where he called for a social movement of elders. His article made me realize that the 3rd act…

A 2006 study done by Ken Dychtwald and Age Wave www.agewave.com looks at the journey of people moving toward and through retirement. They identified five stages. The first stage of…

When Bev Scott and I met for dinner some 4-5 years ago, as we had done since we first met in the 1980’s, little did we know that our conversation…

I discovered for myself how easy it was to have big goals and dreams that I never act on.  Somehow, the motivation wasn’t there or I failed to outline the…

President Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, was recently quoted as saying “never waste the opportunity that a crisis brings to the table.”  Leaders during earlier world crises challenged us…

I have been in conversation recently with friends and acquaintances who are saying “I can’t begin my 3rd Act, I have to continue working.  So I am still in my…

I have been searching to find a word that describes those of us in The 3rd Act.  The word “Boomer” or “Elder” doesn’t really discretely describe who we are and…