For much of my life, I thought families came with black sheep and white sheep. The white sheep were the ones who fit in. They followed the rules, made the family proud and somehow understood what was expected of them. Then there was the black sheep. The difficult one. The disappointment. The one who didn’t quite fit the family picture…

Evites, Facebook birthday wishes, thank you texts, catch up emails… many of our generation lament the loss of paper invitations, formal thank you notes, birthday cards and an occasional newsy letter. I have boxes of thin, blue, “by air only” letters that my Belgian parents sent each other in the 1950s and those my mother, after moving to the US, exchanged with her parents…

In this article, I’m going to teach you how to create a Personal Life Timeline. Once you create it, you’ll see clues from your life story that will help you to make changes, empowering you to create a better future. You’ll see before you a bird’s eye view of how your past was shaped. The ability to see themes, patterns, and connections…

It took me quite some time to pluck up the courage and try internet dating after my husband died. At first, even the thought of it was horrifying, and my first visit to a dating site ended after just a minute or so. But as time passed…

We’ve all heard them. We may have even helped to perpetuate them – those old adages about aging that are limiting at best and can be downright damaging to our well-being after 60. They’re deeply intrenched in our culture and difficult to dispel…

Nothing seemed to be going right. My Internet gave up in the middle of a Zoom meeting, my dog – a rescue mutt still learning the house rules – peed on a freshly washed towel hanging over a chair, and the work gig I was so confident…

I used to think changing my mind meant I’d made the wrong decision. Now I think it often means I know something I didn’t know when I made the decision. There was a time when I was much more inclined to stick with things. Once I’d decided something, especially if I’d told others, changing it felt uncomfortable…

Do you remember the girl who was curious and excitable before she learned what was sensible? Do you recall the woman who had dreams before she became responsible for everyone else’s? Do you have a memory of what made you rock with laughter, ignite your creativity, made you feel sensual and loved and had you sharing ideas and opinions well into the early hours?

There is a strange cultural contradiction that happens to women as we age. By 60, many of us have accumulated decades of experience: careers, marriages, divorces, caregiving, loss, reinvention, financial decisions, friendships, mistakes, resilience, and more than a few hard-won lessons. We know things we did not know at 30, and we know them not because we read about them, but because we lived them…

Have you experienced a time after turning 60 when you felt lonely, unloved, undervalued, or unsexy? If so, you are not alone. Even those who are perceived as beautiful, sexy, and successful often feel lonely, unloved, undervalued, or unsexy. They just do a better job at hiding it than others. If external validation and lofty achievements…