Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a human survival kit in your possession? The kit would answer the most important questions about your life. How will your life end? Will you find love? Will you be fulfilled emotionally and psychologically?

It’s the holiday season. In the last several weeks, most of us were concerned with buying gifts for family and friends. But have you thought about giving yourself a gift? How many times do you give yourself an important gift in your life?

If you are my age, nearing 80, you might think about it more often than not. You’re comfortable now, and yet, you somehow feel that there will be a few adjustments or changes in your future…

As we approach the year end, it is a good time to examine, redefine, or re-set your personal vision of success. Or as my teenage grandson says to me, “How’s it going, Gran?” December brings a myriad of deep, personal emotions…

Autumn is my favorite season because it feels abundantly joyful. In a spiritual sense, autumn is about taking inventory and making an assessment of where you are on your life’s path. Autumn is a time of questioning and a time of answering the unresolved…

I’ve been single for the last 20+ years. I got married in 1964, when I was 20 years old. I was married for 18 years (really, 15 years because that is when we separated). And then, after that, I had a relationship with a significant other for 17 years…

I was recently sitting at a dinner table in Vietnam with fellow tourists on one of our first nights together. The woman sitting next to me said something I didn’t hear because I was distracted by the poor condition of her teeth…

When I was in high school and a smart-aleck with my friends, we used to tease my dad because of his hearing loss. Thank goodness he had a great sense of humor and a knowing sense of self…

Entering your 60s can be overwhelming when it comes to feeling that your body is falling apart. You imagine all sorts of failures and laugh and joke about them with friends…

Is your age showing? Are you anxious that you are acting older than you are, or feeling older than you are, or are becoming irrelevant or invisible? Please, relax. You are only showing your age if you buy into the clichés…