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My recent post, Why Retirement Confuses Knowledge Workers, generated a lot of emails and texts to me, almost all of them giving me a high-five. One person said, “To me and my friends, you might as well replace the word retirement with irrelevance. No one would ask a friend, ‘When are you thinking of irrelevance?’” ...
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On a personal level, it gives me such joy to share the classroom with people I’ve long admired. Last year, Richard Rohr, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Michael Franti all taught me
January 22, 2025
This topic is so meaningful to me that chapter 7 of my book “Learning to Love Midlife” is dedicated to helping readers understand how their story serves them. For those
January 21, 2025
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
January 20, 2025
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
January 19, 2025
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
January 18, 2025
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
January 17, 2025
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
January 16, 2025
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
January 15, 2025
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,
January 14, 2025
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
January 13, 2025
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,
January 12, 2025
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
January 11, 2025
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