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There’s a picture that sticks with me: a room in a New York apartment where books line every surface, leaned against the walls, piled on tables, stacked in corners — a place less curated than claimed by imagination. It wasn’t about order. It was about possibility — every spine a nerve, every page a pulse. ...
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What We Learn When We Travel Together—Across Generations We just returned from a family trip to New York. My Italian mother-in-law (MIL) recently turned 80, and it had always been
August 9, 2025
I told him about my story with Joie de Vivre, the boutique hotel company that I started at 26 and sold just before my 50th birthday. I started it for
August 8, 2025
In a recent NY Times article “Why Women Are Weary of the Emotional Labor of Mankeeping,” the journalist quotes a Stanford postdoctoral fellow who says, “What I have been seeing
August 7, 2025
Let me explain. When the pandemic left everyone sheltering in place for a year or more, we knew MEA needed to open a second campus, in the U.S., beyond our
August 6, 2025
MEA alum Marcie Merriman and family friend Zak Dychtwald recently created this “First Global Generation” report, published by Ernst & Young and, wow, is it full of insights. There are
August 5, 2025
Of course, they’re referring to my Stage-3 prostate cancer. As many of you know since I wrote about it quite a bit in this daily blog, during a short period
August 4, 2025
This week’s MIDLIFE CHRYSALIS episode features a soulful conversation with writer and global nomad Pico Iyer, whose reflections on stillness, solitude, and the inner journey have inspired readers for decades.
August 1, 2025
It took me three weeks to write this post. The first 20 days were spent ruminating. This morning, I knocked out the post. Writing it wasn’t hard. Beginning it was.
August 1, 2025
I used to think joy was something I would build—architected, scaled, delivered. For decades I worked at the intersection of innovation and communication, building companies and communities, crafting messages meant
August 1, 2025
In midlife, as the noise of external validation fades, intuition grows louder. We begin to know things without evidence. We dream things before they happen. We feel truths that others
July 30, 2025
Why do so many people have an immediate, intuitive grasp of this highly abstract concept called “subjective age?” As Jennifer Senior in a recent Atlantic article suggests, “Most of us
July 29, 2025
One of my recent blog posts about the soul went crazy viral which meant I had a lot of deep, soulful people reaching out to me including Geoffrey Fenton who
July 28, 2025
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