How Many of These 1960s Dances Do You Remember? (Including Vintage Videos!)
As women who grew up in the 1960s, dance has been a part of our lives since the very beginning. But, if I’m right, most of us haven’t had a chance to see our favorite 1960s dances performed – let alone put on our dancing shoes and try them ourselves – for many years…
Read MoreDo You Know All That Instagram Has to Offer?
Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms across all age groups. What started out as a platform to share photos with filters to make them look professional has evolved over the past few years into so much more…
Read More5 Benefits of Meditation in Midlife and Beyond
I started meditating around age 60. It’s safe to say it changed my life. It certainly changed how I approach my life. At first, I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about. If it was good enough for Oprah, then maybe there was something to it…
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 MoreNEXT! The Perfect Four-Letter Word for Your Life
Now that we are older and wiser, a “Next!” attitude might be just the approach we need to make the most of whatever we still want life to look like. Ask yourself, “I conquered that (no matter how big or small), now what do I want next?”
Read MoreEasy Ways to Honor Those You’ve Lost (And Yourself)
I recently traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, where music pours from every bar, restaurant and hotel, in a raucous and often heartfelt tribute to life, love and the human condition.
After listening to no fewer than 18 singer-songwriters…
Are You Crazy About Puppets?
If theater is about the suspension of disbelief, then puppetry is a double suspension of disbelief – the story is told not by an actor, but by a doll or costume controlled by a puppeteer. Done well, it works in a magical way. The creative skill…
Read MorePiano Lesson 5: Reading Bass G, New Exercise #2, and a St. Patrick’s Day Bonus
The focus for Lesson 5 is reading Bass G. I showed you how to play Left Hand ‘G’s in Lesson 4 and in today’s lessons you will be reading that G note in the Bass Staff! You will play Bass G in The Irish Washerwoman, a fun and popular traditional Irish jig…
Read MoreIs Over 60 Too Late to Get Your Master’s Degree?
We all have our “someday” goals, and as the years march on and we close in on the expiration date of someday, we often let those ambitions fade away. So when a friend in her 60s received her master’s degree…
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