Top 10 Benefits of Building Your Community
I stopped looking for “my community” years ago, trying to fit in somewhere when one, I didn’t, and two, I really just wanted to be on my own most of the time. In the process of doing so, I started being true to myself. Me, for the first time ever…
Read MorePhotos and Fumbles – What Do You Do with Your Thousands of Photos?
I have 10 grandchildren and love to have adventures with them, everything from road trips to summer “Cousins’ Camps.” And I always try to document these adventures with lots of photos. Today, the technology available for still and video photography…
Read MoreYour Third Act Is for Taking Creative Risks
Age has a universally negative connotation, and there is no known way to stop it. But we can be alive as we live it! One way to embrace our vitality is to consider a different narrative approach to the subject of risk…
Read MoreA Tribute to the Amazing Women in the Sixty and Me Community
I have been writing for Sixty and Me for donkey’s years (a British expression meaning a long time), and it suddenly hit me this week that we are a rather amazing lot. Not the writers – I don’t know much about the other bloggers – but you, the readers…
Read More6 Tips for Looking and Feeling Pretty Da** Good After 60
As I begin to write, I have just lifted my eyes from the inspiring kind of fashion magazine that has gorgeous leggy young women in good lighting, with expert makeup and wearing fabulous clothes with mortgage repayment price tags. Inspiring?
Read More60 Creative Ways to Make Money in Retirement
Last year, I asked the women in our community how they make money in retirement. Their answers were amazing and showed just how creative our generation has become when it comes to supplementing our income in the best years of our lives…
Read MoreNervous About Being a Late Bloomer? 7 Ways to Go for It
When I was in my early 30s, I lived in a two-story house nestled in the forest high up in the Green mountains of Vermont. We were far from the madding crowd for months at a time. It was from that perspective on one cold, sunny morning that I was looking…
Read MoreWhat to Do in Retirement: 20 Serious (and Fun!) Things to Keep You Busy!
My best friend was forced into an early retirement. While she was within a year of wanting to retire anyway, it came as a bit of a shock when her job position was eliminated, and she was faced with trying to occupy the hours in the day…
Read MoreNeed a New Hobby? 5 Best Tips for Beginning Photographers
Most beginner photography articles on the web start with complicated drawings of the exposure triangle and intricate explanations of white balance. I think that’s the perfect way to take the fun right out of learning photography because it focuses…
Read MoreWhy You Should Learn a New Language in a Homestay Abroad
Are you thinking of learning a new language? We often hear that it’s never too late to learn something new, right? But the thought of learning a new language past our 50s can be intimidating and quite frankly somewhat scary…
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