We welcome guest blogger, Ruth Cox: In 2012 as Esalen celebrates its 50th year, I’ve been reflecting on how this extraordinary home of the human potential movement has paralleled our…
My dog, Wyatt’s bday & Journey My dog, Wyatt, just had his birthday. Since he has been my main companion for the last 8 years, I was thinking this morning…
I have been reflecting recently about the issues that fall into the category of “before it’s too late”. I recently spent some time with a friend in hospice just being…
We welcome guest blogger, David Gill: Like many others in my generation, I came to the end of a long, successful career (for me, it was in healthcare administration) and…
I went to see the Picasso exhibition at the De Young in San Francisco this week. It was the culmination of a summer and fall exploration of the early 20th…
I am excited about an upcoming road trip to visit the rural homesteads of my grandparents in the late 19th Century. I plan to visit museums, comb through resources in…
Retirement Planning Dilemma: When to Retire Now or Never? Making the Right Decision I went to France to visit family during the month of August. It was a wonderful time…
“I thought you were retired and not working any more. Why did you go back to having an office?” asked one of my friends. I recently moved my office from…
We welcome our guest blogger, Patricia Weaver: Childhood Fear: WWII to 9/11 Flashbacks When 9/11 happened ten years ago, I experienced very frightening flashbacks. I recognized the fear as the…
In “Aging Well” George Vaillant reviewed the Harvard Longevity study, the longest study done to date on adult human development which has given us very clear age 50 predictors that…