Carol Dweck’s recent book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, talks about the importance of attitude and its impact on the way see into the future and how we take…
The 3rd Act Unveiled: Ageless Ambitions Exploring Longevity and Boomers I recently attended a roundtable discussion of Generation Ageless: Longevity and the Boomers at Stanford University moderated by Tom Brokaw. …
This time of turmoil, economic melt-downs, religious and ethnic strife, natural and man-made disasters, war and political upheaval, has raised questions for me and many of those with whom I…
I just got off the phone with Southwest Airlines. I am planning a trip to southern California to visit my children for Thanksgiving and was delighted to see the senior…
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…
Major life changes can precipitate a sense of crisis. The old solutions don’t work. The old meanings and understandings don’t hold up. We may feel adrift, or even worse, like…
I recently returned from several days away with women friends I have known for over 30 years but who live in other parts of the country. Returning from that short…
Are you wondering… When is the best time for you to take social security? Should you buy long-term care insurance? Do you need help figuring out your financial savings and…
Susan Moon has written a short, 176 pages, and deceptively simple book called “This is Getting Old” about the challenges and the gifts of aging from a Zen prospective. At…
Too much doing; not enough being When I returned from my vacation in July, I vowed to hold on to the calm relaxed enjoyment of a slower pace that vacation…