Getting Old or Growing Elder?
Learn how your beliefs and attitudes toward aging impact your health, happiness, and longevity, and how you can change them for the better.
Paragraphs, Full Sentences, and Tone … Oh My!
Learn how nurturing your writing skills in emails and texts gives you a competitive advantage in business and life — and can improve with age!
What Ripples of Impact are You Leaving Behind?
In this edition of Marginalia we’ll dive into my sidenote scribblings in Chip Conley’s new book, Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets BETTER with AGE
Wise up! How to grow wiser as you age
We’d all like to be known as wise, right? And deserve the label. So whether or not you’re thought of as wise right now, this post will show you how to recognize wisdom and how you can gain more of it over time.
Age Diversity at Work: Can Solos and Small Businesses Share the Benefits?
We looked at the benefits of age diversity running to the organization: increased productivity, innovation, workforce stability, and the bottom line. And the evidence continues to pile up.
Succeeding, in 3 Million Moments (and counting!)
As I turn 70, in this post I’m sharing on three of the topics occupying my attention in this moment of transition: time, transition, and success. And how much those three concepts overlap — especially when recast into verb form, as I believe nouns often should be.
Reaping the Seventh Reward: Shared Immortality
The subtitle of my book is 6 Science-Backed Ways Reading Puts You on the Road to Achieving More and Living Longer. The title of this post confirms what the judge I worked for right after law school taught me: No piece of writing is ever done; you just run out of time.
Thoughts on Doilies When Everything Old is New Again
Life does go full circle. It happens when you’re not looking. One moment you’re a teenager tasked with dusting and sweeping and maybe making beds that you did not sleep in, and the next moment you’re a grandmother with your own home, and you’re still dusting and sweeping, but now, it’s okay. Because the rooms you clean, are yours. Because the bed you make, is yours.
The Language of Growing Old in America
I am on the near side of what our society labels as old. I passed my 60th birthday some years ago and I admit that for a short bit of time it had me adopting the societal norm – that of thinking I’m old and unable to be a contributing and active member of society.
Wake Up To A Real 100+ Year Life
As someone who never expected to live to be 100, and who couldn’t have cared less, I am now pausing in my senior-hood and giving this idea a chance to grow in my consciousness. I don’t feel old yet (well, some days I do), and while I have a drawer in my night stand with my medication, only three are prescription.
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