Tips for Finding a Job After 60
Many people are working well beyond the traditional retirement age, partly out of necessity and partly because they still want to contribute and are not ready to retire. Whether you’ve been laid off, you’re retired and looking…
Read More6 Ways to Utilize Tax-Smart Charitable Giving
Charitable giving often conjures up images of the uber-wealthy creating foundations and complex trusts. While this is certainly true, a lot of people without millions regularly give money to the causes they support. It is also important…
Read More11 Awful Opening Lines You Need to Delete from Your Online Dating Profile
When it comes to online dating profiles, I’ve realized that intelligence has nothing to do with writing a good paragraph about yourself. In fact, there are times I feel there is an inverse correlation between intelligence and online dating…
Read MoreHow to Pay Off Debt FAST in Your 60s… from a Woman Who Paid Off $150,000 in 10 Years
When it comes to financial security, Baby Boomers are somewhat of a mystery. On the one hand, we are often called “The richest generation of all time.” On the other hand, even after decades in the workforce, we still carry the second highest level of debt…
Read MoreYou Don’t Need a Facelift – But, Your Concept of Midlife Certainly Does!
Once we pass 45 or 50, it often feels like the beginning of a slippery slope towards decline. Birthday cards telegraph that the best part of life is behind you. Anti-aging products are targeted at you. Articles point out how out of touch you’ve become…
Read MoreCarpe Diem: Have You Ever Thought of Getting a Cargo Van or RV? (Part One)
This year, the film Nomadland won three academic awards. Here is a description of the film: “A woman in her 60s, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.”
Read MoreCan We Truly Reconnect with Lost Moments from the Past
Lockdown has afforded all of us an opportunity to reflect on who we are, what our priorities are, and what we’d like to change in our lives. I have some good friends here in London, for example, who just got married after being together for 32 years…
Read MoreHow to Make Retired Life a Pleasurable Experience
Many of us look forward to the day we retire. As our professional lives wind down, that moment we can finally leave it all behind beckons us like a Promised Land. I retired from a demanding career five years ago, and I can say that much of that promised bliss is real…
Read MoreGoing Back to Work as a Mature Woman Gives Me 4 Things I Never Had When I Was Younger
As I gathered my briefcase, purse, and lunch from my car and headed up to my office this morning, I remembered I’d be welcoming a new co-worker today. She comes from another campus in our community college district, and I’m looking forward…
Read MoreWhy It’s Time to Flip the Narrative from Independence to Interdependence
Each July, we Americans dedicate time to celebrating our independence, and perhaps this year more so than others after we’ve endured various stages of isolation and lockdown amid the pandemic. The 4th is a time to revel in the notion…
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