Don’t Wait for Happiness to Find You: Invest in Finding It for Yourself!
Happiness is more than a feel-good emotion. Happiness, science is discovering, is actually surprisingly beneficial to our health and longevity. Read More
10 Steps You Can Take to Fall in Love With Your Community
Whether you’re a newcomer or a long-time resident, there are multiple ways to experience more joy and connection in your community. Read More
An Insider’s Guide to Retiring in Bali
I retired in Bali… can you?
Retirement crept up on me. I had excellent health, meager savings and a severe case of age-appropriate denial. Then, three friends died of cancer within eighteen months. I wasn’t yet sixty-one. All younger than I, they had unrealized dreams and unfinished lives. Read More
What I Love Most About My Sixty and Me Sisters
Every woman in the Sixty and Me community is unique and wonderful. In many ways, our diversity is our strength. We share a similar cultural background and many of the same experiences.
At the same time, our individual backgrounds are filled with beautifully complex stories – some of which are joyful and others of which are heartbreaking. Read More
Rethinking Loneliness – How the Search for Friendship is Really the Search for Ourselves
Loneliness is a complex problem. For starters, being alone is not the same as being lonely. Our feelings of loneliness come from how we interpret our situation, not from the simple fact that we are by ourselves. Read More
How a Single Older Woman Can Meet 150 New People in 3 Hours
Recently, I wrote an article about being single and feeling fabulous about it. The response was enormous and the comments were enlightening! Read More
6 Ways We Can Use Random Acts of Kindness to Help Others and Heal Ourselves
There is something about a random act of kindness that feeds us as much as it feeds the recipient.
Remember the movie, “Pay It Forward?” In it a young boy wonders how it would be if he did something nice for three people and asked those three people to do something nice for three more people? Pretty soon thousands of people were doing nice thing for other people by paying it forward. Read More
How to “Unthink” Your Way Into Overcoming Loneliness
A recent study saying that loneliness and social isolation are a major health hazard is no surprise to millions of people who are alone and lonely. Not having the fundamental human experience of connectedness is painful and even dangerous, especially if you are older. Read More
Accepting Aging: Letting Go of the Younger Self That We’ve Left Behind
A friend of mine is limping into his 60s with a sense of loss. Loss of youth, energy and significance. I understand all of that and believe that most of us go through a passage where we grieve the younger life we’ve left behind. Read More
5 Unhealthy Habits I Need to Quit for Better Years Ahead
In my book, Which Old Woman Will You Be?, I encourage living on purpose and being intentional so that as we age, we are the women we choose to be. The women we want to be. The women we intentionally become, instead of the ones we sort of drift into without thought or effort. Read More