Finding Happiness

The third act of your life isn’t about becoming someone new – it’s about becoming thoroughly and unapologetically yourself. Who do you need to impress? No one. Whose approval do you need? Nobody’s. Whose happiness is your responsibility? Yours. Just yours…

Let’s talk about your perfectionism. I know it’s there, because you’re interested enough in improving something about your life that you’re visiting this wonderful website! But if you want to lead a happy life, you need to accept less than perfection…

When it comes to creating your dream lifestyle after 60, what’s the first thing you do? If you’re like many people from our generation, you may immediately jump into physical action. This often involves working hard, staying busy, and a lot of multitasking. From the outside, it may look like you are making progress and accomplishing a lot…

Of all the words in the dictionary, the word “home” resonates a place in our heart reserved for feelings that are almost indescribable. Like a sigh, it just belongs there, settled in and comfortable, resting assuredly in the folds of our heart…

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about legacy – not the big, dramatic, “name on a building” kind, but the quiet kind. The kind that sneaks up on you in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon when you’re folding laundry and suddenly remember a joke…

There’s a line in a song I wrote recently that stayed with me longer than the music: “I know it’s my own doing… bein’ where I be… but that don’t make it easier… livin’ inside of me.” I didn’t write that line as advice. It wasn’t meant to fix anything. It just showed up one day, the way honest things tend to do. And the more I sat with it, the more I realized how much of life can feel like that…

What is a dream home? Is a dream home a “perfect home”? The word, “perfect” is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “Having no mistake or flaw.” Is your dream home a perfect home or the home that only you “dream” of?

I never thought that I would look forward to being 60 and yet as my 60th birthday drew closer, I felt an excitement that surprised me and took hold of me. I can’t fully explain it, but it was a sense of fully stepping into the woman that I was becoming…

If you step into your ideal self at age 95 and look back, what do you want to see? Is it a life of happiness? Of meaning? Certainly, you want to feel…

There comes a point in life when you begin to look at your story differently. Not just where you’re going, but where you’ve been. The choices you made. The roles you played. The responsibilities you carried. And for many women…