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4 Magical Tips for Successful Holidays with Blended Families and Strange Bedfellows

One of the quirkiest Thanksgiving holidays I attended happened in the early 80s. I had recently moved with my two sons from Las Vegas to La Jolla, California…

Reinventing How Women Over 60 Live in Retirement

We urgently need to reinvent how women live in retirement. Here’s how we might do it.

There’s a lifestyle shift in progress as single women are searching for new ways to live in community as they navigate their 60s and beyond. Read More

Why Cultivating Gratitude Is a Reset Button for Positivity After 60

The rice paddies that stretch out from the house are flooded now, reflecting the sky with big puff-ball clouds that turn pink, then orange, then white as the morning sun rises. Read More

New Year, New You: Tips and Habits to Start the Year Strong

The new year often brings with it an overabundance of hopeful resolutions, lofty goals, and well-intentioned promises to live better, eat healthier, and improve various aspects of oneself and one’s life…

New Year’s Resolutions for Mature Minds: Set Concepts, Not Lists

While home visiting my family over the holidays, my sister mentioned a few of the resolutions she’d set for herself this year. Read More

What’s the Magic Word? How Giving Up New Year’s Resolutions Could Enrich Your Life

As the calendar page turns, many of us are once again making resolutions. We’re clarifying our intentions for the year ahead. We’re contemplating our dreams. Read More

How to Get Started on Airbnb as an Older Adult (the Fastest Growing Group of Hosts!)

Would you be surprised if I told you that the fastest growing group of hosts on Airbnb is seniors? You shouldn’t be! After all, older adults own the lion’s share or properties throughout the world. They also have the time to dedicate to being fantastic hosts and the life experience to avoid painful mistakes. As […]

CBD – A Boomer Health Trend to Watch in 2020

This is the time of year when pundits make their annual predictions about which trends or products will be hot (and which will not) over the next 12 months. Given my passion for all things related to getting and staying healthy…

How Can Chakras Help You Thrive After 60? The First Chakra – I AM

The word “Chakra” comes from Sanskrit, translating in English to “wheel” or “disk.” The Chakras are the seven main spiritual moving energy centers within our bodies that combine the emotional…

Meryl Streep as Little Women’s Battle-Ax: “Write Me a Good Aunt March”

“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents!” So complained Jo March in the opening line of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, a novel as treasured today as it was 150 years ago…