A Good Night's Sleep

When's the last time you had a good night's sleep? If a recent article in the New York Times is to be believed, probably not since Pregnancy and then Motherhood altered your sleep patterns -- for good. Trying to sleep while doing mental gymnastics about a lot of things of rel...
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Category: HEALTH | 130 Views | 0 Comments | November 07, 2011 11:29:25 am

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The Purpose Prize - encore

Five people over 60 who are addressing "tough social problems" in their second, or encore careers, have won this year's Purpose Prize®. The cash prize of up to $100,000 rewards people over 60 who are combining their passion and experience for social good. I don'...
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Category: RETIREMENT | 243 Views | 0 Comments | November 07, 2011 10:39:32 am

The Space We Breathe

Delightful, insightful, and often richly spiritual musings from my friend, Diana, upon her recent retirement from official ministry in the United Methodist Church. (It would be inaccurate to say she's retired from Ministry; this blog is ministry, too.) Enjoy! http://thespac...
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Category: SPIRITUALITY | 267 Views | 0 Comments | September 20, 2011 11:16:19 am

Advertising & Spending

According to a recent article in the New York Times, advertisers are re-thinking their target audience, and recalibrating their work to appeal to “the mature audience.” “In some ways, they are the ideal consumer. They have money, they consume...
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Category: FINANCES | 206 Views | 0 Comments | May 18, 2011 11:53:01 am

Medi-scares, cont.

What's really at stake in the conversations about Medicare? Paul Krugman's May 13 column offers a fairly frightening take. The politics -- and the posturing -- seem to preclude the meaningful discussion that needs to take place and the difficult decisions that need...
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Category: CURRENT | 203 Views | 0 Comments | May 16, 2011 12:57:44 am

Second Adulthood

Do the math. I call this “the third third.” But Suzanne Braun Levine calls it “Women in Second Adulthood.” This former Ms. Magazine editor and author's site is empowering, her writing insightful, her resources bountiful. Check it out...
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Category: LIFESTYLE | 214 Views | 0 Comments | April 28, 2011 1:46:35 pm

Oh, Another Third!

My apologies to a woman I recently discovered was a couple of decades ahead of me in writing about the third third of our lives. Claire Mitchel, who died recently, was a popular columnist with the Miami Herald, whose column was titled “The Third Third.” I knew I hadn&rsqu...
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Category: LIFESTYLE | 194 Views | 0 Comments | March 29, 2011 10:18:23 am

What are you going to do when. . .?

. . . .Continuing the discussion about your/our end-of-life priorities, you may want to check out yet another option introduced in today’s Wall Street Journal. As described therein, the Polst, or Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, signed by both doctor and patient, ...
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Category: HEALTH | 279 Views | 1 Comments | March 15, 2011 10:03:06 am

Exercise Matters

Here we go again: the best advice anyone has to give about living well, i.e., healthily into advanced age, is Exercise, Exercise, Exercise. There’s now evidence to suggest said exercise fuels cellular healing and regrowth in all that matters. OK. Sit down and read the sto...
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Category: HEALTH | 210 Views | 0 Comments | March 14, 2011 2:03:10 pm

Wise Old Ladies???

If, with age comes wisdom, what constitutes wisdom? According to Brave Old World, a 2010 production of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism’s News21 Team, wisdom may derive from an abundance of social and emotional knowledge gained -- and reflected upon -- over the years that lead to ...
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Category: RELATIONSHIPS | 275 Views | 1 Comments | February 09, 2011 11:52:50 am

The (Healthy) Aging Mind

New on the scene in Dallas, Texas: The Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas where the focus is: maintaining the vitality of the aging mind in a world where there will soon be more adults over 60 than children. Center scientists are using brain imaging technologies to under...
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Category: HEALTH | 213 Views | 0 Comments | February 09, 2011 10:53:50 am

Boomers Start Turning 65. And?

Boomers Start Turning 65. And? An article in the New York Times New Year’s Day unleashed hundreds of new salvos in the generational conflict developing as America’s largest -- and maybe loudest -- generation reaches the once “official” retirement age. The online di...
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Category: CURRENT | 263 Views | 0 Comments | January 03, 2011 10:31:22 am

About those "ageless" Old People

Defy? Or Deny? What’s your approach to Old Age? There’s always my mother’s “Ignore it, and it will go away.” But writer -- and 65 year-old -- Susan Jacoby says we’re fooling ourselves. How do you respond? ...
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Category: HEALTH | 248 Views | 0 Comments | January 01, 2011 3:25:18 pm

Elizabeth Edwards, Remembered

As my high school friend, Paul, suggests, Elizabeth Edwards knew precisely the meaning of -- and her place in -- the third third of life. And she generously shared that knowledge in a May, 2007, speech to Paul’s daughter and the women of her graduating class at Meredith College in ...
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Category: LIFESTYLE | 304 Views | 0 Comments | December 27, 2010 11:26:41 am

Freedom -- to Read What I Love

I think the biggest star in today’s book publishing galaxy is Jonathan Franzen’s. . . agent. I mean, really. Have you ever seen such a media blitz, ever heard so much buzz in advance of and during publication, ever known an author to be crowned the voice of the 21st century i...
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Category: CURRENT | 332 Views | 0 Comments | December 04, 2010 12:57:04 am

Life's Minefields

Some of my nightmares take place in minefields. Not that I’ve ever even seen one, but the very idea evokes sheer terror: the randomness, the will-it-go-off-or-won’t-it, the responsibility of choosing where to step or drive, the impossibility of sweeping the field absolutely c...
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Category: HEALTH | 341 Views | 2 Comments | October 20, 2010 1:55:48 pm

Good News: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Bad News: He Will Be OLD

Woody Allen’s latest film, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” opens this week and it will likely not, as my husband is prone to ask, have a happy ending. According to excerpts from an interview with David Itzkoff in the New York Times, Woody Allen doesn’t think ...
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Category: LIFESTYLE | 315 Views | 0 Comments | September 20, 2010 09:02:00 am

High School Reunion

My 45th high school reunion is scheduled for next month. I sort of intended to go this time. I haven’t been back to my home town since my parents retired and moved away 25 years ago; something always seemed to come up that kept me from each of the eight previous reunions -- a baby,...
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Category: RELATIONSHIPS | 1154 Views | 4 Comments | August 31, 2010 2:21:04 pm

Be Careful What You Wish For

File this under “BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR”: Two recent articles question the value of advancing some of medicine’s newest diagnostic tools -- unless or until we have the professional knowledge and expertise to interpret them and/or effective health care treatments to addre...
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