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Thoughts on the art of living
We’ve all heard it: “60 is the new 40.” Recently, a Goldman Sachs report added real intellectual heft to that optimism, suggesting that a 70-year-old today may have the cognitive ability of someone far younger just a couple of decades ago. We aren’t simply living longer — we’re aging differently. Slower. Sharper. More adaptable. I ...
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There was a recent NY Times article with the title of today’s blog post. I wanted to summarize it for you and give you my spin as lots of folks
August 11, 2025
Hearing that our workshop compadres keep their relationships fresh and evolving gives me such joy so this post from Angie brought a smile to my face and a tear to
August 10, 2025
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
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