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Reading and Writing as Dementia Defense

No matter your age, reading and writing will help grow your brain and defend against dementia. The earlier you start, the better.

By Tom Collins February 12, 2026 Aging Well, Books, Health & Happiness, Reading
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3 Lessons from Football Star A.J. Brown for Authors and Readers

The lessons go far beyond football, media frenzy, and Amazon algorithms. What indie authors and readers should take away.

By Tom Collins January 16, 2025 Aging Well, Books, Indie Publishing, Reading
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Happy New Year & My Birthday Gifts to You

Today is my birthday. And now I’m seventy-four. Does reading those words make lines from a couple of Beatles songs, When I’m Sixty-four and Birthday, […]

By Tom Collins January 3, 2025 Aging Well, Books, Creativity, Health & Happiness, Learning, Reading
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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.

By Tom Collins September 5, 2024 Aging Well, Books, Marginalia, Tips from Tom's inbox
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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!

By Tom Collins June 27, 2024 Aging Well, Business & Entrepreneurship, Marginalia, Writing
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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

By Tom Collins February 1, 2024 Aging Well, Book Reviews, Books, Marginalia, Writing
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A close-up of an elderly person's hand holding a child's hand. Text over the image is a quote from Tom Collins that reads "Wisdom is built, not bestowed, as we age." The image is connected to an article on how to grow wiser as you 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.

By Tom Collins April 18, 2022 Aging Well, Marginalia, Tips from Tom's inbox
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A group of formally dressed people of a variety of ages, genders, and races. Text above the individuals reads "Can solos and small businesses reap the benefits of age diversity at work?" This image is attached to a blog post on how age diversity at work can benefit small businesses and even solopreneurs.

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.

By Tom Collins April 2, 2021 Aging Well, Big Ideas, Health & Happiness
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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.

By Tom Collins January 4, 2021 Aging Well, Big Ideas, Health & Happiness
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A white woman in a lab coat holds a clipboard. She is in front of a blackboard with lots of mathematical and science equations. On the image is the Thomas Carlyle quote, "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity." This image is attached to a post on how to achieve shared immortality.

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.

By Tom Collins July 8, 2019 Aging Well, Books, Learning, Reading
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