Preventing Your Midlife Crisis from Affecting Your Marriage
You probably know a few couples who got divorced after being married for decades. Going through a midlife crisis can cause a marriage to dissolve. The midlife crisis itself can have a negative impact on the marriage or can make one of the spouses realize…
Read MoreHow to Take Care of Your Back: 5 Tips for Women Over 60
As we age, our bodies change, and we can start to experience different health problems. One common issue that many people face as they get older is back pain. This can be caused by a variety of things, such as poor posture, incorrect lifting techniques…
Read MoreWhat Does Being a Trailblazer After 60 Mean to You?
Who or what is a trailblazer? Is it someone who takes inspired action on new opportunities before anyone else? Or is a trailblazer someone who paves a new path to love, happiness, and fulfillment by not conforming to what others say they can be or do after 60?
Read MoreExtra Retirement Plan Catch-Ups Are Coming Your Way
Will you be 60, 61, 62, or 63 in 2025? Are you still employed and contributing to your company retirement plan? Then start planning now for the added contribution you may make starting in 2025. You may be aware that under current law, employees…
Read MoreHow to Grow Resilience and Cut Stress Eating for Successful Women over 60
You’ve accomplished a lot in your life. You can do anything you set your mind to. But there is just one area where you constantly struggle, and hope nobody notices: your eating habits. If you are a woman over 60 struggling with eating, especially when stressed…
Read MoreHow to Move Past Guilt and Forgive Yourself
Guilt is something that nearly all of us struggle with at one time or another. Sometimes in small ways – but other times, feelings of guilt can be so strong that they can become debilitating. There are endless reasons why we can feel guilty about something…
Read MoreSwimming Across That Great Big River: De Nile (Denial)
I started working with “the elderly” while still in high school. Beginning as a candy striper volunteer in a local nursing home, I also volunteered at a nursing home up the hill from my college while working on my degree in Social Work…
Read MoreThe 3 Cs for Enhancing Creativity in Your 60s: Color-Contrast-Curiosity
Retirement is a fruitful time to develop creative projects and activities that inspire and increase the general health of your mind, body, and spirit. So, let’s get creative! During my working years I wrote textbooks on acting as well as a plethora of articles for magazines…
Read MorePiano Lesson 6: What Is a Pickup? (Hint: It’s Not a Truck or a Flirtation)
In music there are stronger beats and weaker beats. In 4/4 time (4 beats per measure), beat 1 is generally the strongest beat and beat 3 is the second strongest. This point is well illustrated in this video. When conductor Gustavo Dudamel turns around…
Read More20 Ways to Influence a Child’s Love of Reading
In my previous article, I wrote about the lack of reading habits – and lack of love toward reading – in the younger generations. Our grandchildren don’t seem to have a healthy exposure and/or regard toward books which, in turn, inhibits the development of their critical thinking capabilities. Naturally, the whole society will suffer in future years.
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