How to Overcome Childhood Fears and Get More from Life After 50
My husband and I recently escaped the snows in Idaho for a first-time vacation in Belize. The travel brochures claimed the water around the tiny island of San Pedro offered some of the world’s best snorkeling, so we signed up for an excursion.
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4 Qualities That Help You to Embrace Aging
Aging. It’s happening and it’s weird. Some days I am relaxed in the process of it. Other days I am Don Friggin’ Quixote, battling the windmills with Pilates classes, hiking, and an overabundance of green salads and coconut water. Read More
Happy Brain, Healthy Heart = Happy Heart, Healthy Brain
“You have to meet Miss Fiona!” my friend gushed, knowing my passion for celebrating dynamic, thriving seniors. “She’s truly amazing!” Read More
Don’t Wait for Happiness to Find You: Invest in Finding It for Yourself!
Happiness is more than a feel-good emotion. Happiness, science is discovering, is actually surprisingly beneficial to our health and longevity. Read More
10 Steps You Can Take to Fall in Love With Your Community
Whether you’re a newcomer or a long-time resident, there are multiple ways to experience more joy and connection in your community. Read More
An Insider’s Guide to Retiring in Bali
I retired in Bali… can you?
Retirement crept up on me. I had excellent health, meager savings and a severe case of age-appropriate denial. Then, three friends died of cancer within eighteen months. I wasn’t yet sixty-one. All younger than I, they had unrealized dreams and unfinished lives. Read More
What I Love Most About My Sixty and Me Sisters
Every woman in the Sixty and Me community is unique and wonderful. In many ways, our diversity is our strength. We share a similar cultural background and many of the same experiences.
At the same time, our individual backgrounds are filled with beautifully complex stories – some of which are joyful and others of which are heartbreaking. Read More
Rethinking Loneliness – How the Search for Friendship is Really the Search for Ourselves
Loneliness is a complex problem. For starters, being alone is not the same as being lonely. Our feelings of loneliness come from how we interpret our situation, not from the simple fact that we are by ourselves. Read More
How a Single Older Woman Can Meet 150 New People in 3 Hours
Recently, I wrote an article about being single and feeling fabulous about it. The response was enormous and the comments were enlightening! Read More
6 Ways We Can Use Random Acts of Kindness to Help Others and Heal Ourselves
There is something about a random act of kindness that feeds us as much as it feeds the recipient.
Remember the movie, “Pay It Forward?” In it a young boy wonders how it would be if he did something nice for three people and asked those three people to do something nice for three more people? Pretty soon thousands of people were doing nice thing for other people by paying it forward. Read More