It Feels Different Than 8 Years Ago

I enjoyed reading travel writer Paul Theroux’s recent NY Times piece, “The Hard Reality American Expats Quickly Learn” about what it’s like being alone and far away. Theroux says the

It Feels Different Than 8 Years Ago

Re:Pair: Healing the Parental Wound (Part 2)

She wanted me to unpack my feelings about his sporadic, largely absent role in my life. I refused; as a child I had created an entire mythos around him, and

Re:Pair: Healing the Parental Wound (Part 2)

Re-pair: Healing the Parental Wound

My mother, with whom I have always had a troubled and difficult bond, recently texted out of the blue asking if she could ask my 26-year-old son, who works for

Re-pair: Healing the Parental Wound

Four Modern Elders Discussing Modern Fires and Modern Grief

When I listened to Tuesday’s NY Times Daily Show podcast on Could the L.A. Fires Have Been Stopped Sooner?, I realized there are people in our modern elder community who

Four Modern Elders Discussing Modern Fires and Modern Grief

Are We Most Present At the Beginning and End of Life?

Babies and older adults share several similarities in consciousness, particularly in terms of how they experience the world including:Present-Moment Awareness: Healthy babies and old elders live in the now. Curiosity

Are We Most Present At the Beginning and End of Life?

2025 is the Year You Expand Your Horizons

You don’t know your limits until you’ve exceeded them. I’ve learned that as an entrepreneur who flirted with bankruptcy, as a blogger sharing my very personal revelations that some in

2025 is the Year You Expand Your Horizons

Wisdom and Love

Wisdom whispers of our smallness, dissolving the walls of the self. Love sings of our boundless essence, uniting us with all that is. Wisdom unveils the fleeting nature of form,

Wisdom and Love

Investing in Your Leadership

Context impacts your vision. Sonny Bono was Cher’s short husband and he had a hard time shaking that identity when he became a U.S. Member of Congress. I’m not sure

Investing in Your Leadership

When Serendipity Has Her Way With You

You can learn a magic trick, but you can’t will Serendipity. Five years ago, I wrote a blog post in the form of a fable about three sisters: Serendipity, Synchronicity,

When Serendipity Has Her Way With You

The Revolutionary Truth About Longevity

I cherish the month of January because after years on this planet it’s become written in my DNA—while September feels like a fresh start after years of schooling (mine and

The Revolutionary Truth About Longevity

The Case for the “Emerging Elder” (Part 5)

Our well-being depends upon our aging psycho-hygiene, how we cleanse ourselves of mindsets and belief systems that rob us of joy, discovery, and possibility during this unique period of our

The Case for the “Emerging Elder” (Part 5)

The Case for the “Emerging Elder” (Part 4)

One of my favorite parts of the white paper about the Emerging Elder that I’ve cited this week is the stories the academics present. Here are a couple of stories

The Case for the “Emerging Elder” (Part 4)