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According to a recent Washington Post article, women don’t just live longer than men — they’ve been doing it across 1,176 species. Yes, even female chimpanzees and whales are outlasting their male counterparts. Apparently, Mother Nature’s been running this experiment for a while, and the results are in: women pace themselves, men self-destruct. Scientists call ...
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I love this recent Huffington Post article about Megan Vered who wrote to a wide circle of friends that she’d like to celebrate her 70th birthday doing 70 really interesting
April 25, 2025
But, I found Ross Douthat’s column from this past weekend, An Age of Extinction is Coming, and David Brooks’ What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is
April 24, 2025
There’s social science evidence showing that younger people consistently and markedly overestimate how satisfied they will be in five years, while older people underestimate future satisfaction. Researchers have found that
April 23, 2025
Steven replied, “If we’re lucky, we’ll all get older, but only a few of us will become a true elder.” I laughed it off, but within a half-dozen years, I
April 22, 2025
The eyes may be the window to one’s soul, but the gut is the window to one’s wisdom. The gut is often called our “second brain” for good reason—it holds
April 21, 2025
I see them everywhere: people standing in elevators, at bus stops, in line at grocery stores—their eyes fixated on their phones. And yes, I’m guilty of this too. I call
April 20, 2025
There’s an old story of a child who comes home and says, “mom, mom mom…” (for those of us with kids, we’ve been there). Mom, of course, is busy with
April 19, 2025
We don’t need to live longer. We need to live deeper. And that doesn’t require a plane ticket or a new guru. It starts with this moment. This breath. This
April 18, 2025
As we write about in our Anatomy of a Transition free ebook, most personal or professional transitions can be mapped out into three stages: the ending, the messy middle, and
April 17, 2025
Rather than feeling befuddled or stuck, maybe it’s time to relish and release. Both of these words come from the “relaxare” French and Latin root. Relish is about loosening into
April 16, 2025
And, yet, our modern tendency is NOT to simplify, but to complicate. When we’re younger, we might have thought that a simple life is a boring life. But, by the
April 15, 2025
Thanks to MEA alum Anne Auburn shared this wise 22-minute video about the whispering soul. This Buddhist insight about how life can be lived after 60. It’s quite beautiful and
April 14, 2025
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