“And what to my wondering eyes should appear….” but the home my family built in 1925 and lived in for nearly 70 years still stands and has been renovated! The neighborhood once devastated by Urban Renewal and interstate construction is experiencing gentrification and historic designation like so many urban areas around the country. And property […]
As we begin to emerge from this pandemic-induced lockdown, here are a few lessons we may have learned. 1. We can be our own best friends for an extended period of time, sometimes even enjoying our newly-found solitude. This beats feeling lonely. 2. We have had to learn to use our eyes much more to […]
Part of maturing as a human being, according to renowned psychologist Erik Erikson, is reaching the final stage of development at about age 65. It’s then we search to acquire the basic virtue of wisdom. My quest for wisdom has, in part, driven me to seek more information about my ancestors and to share […]
Understanding Lessons Learned on Life’s Voyage Reaching age 70 has prompted me both to celebrate and to awaken. Starting a new decade has always been a time of reflection for me but this time it’s sobering. Roughly one out of three of us at this age, statistics say, will not reach our 80thbirthday. So, realizing […]
Teaching Your Mind to Inspire Others: 25 Big Lessons Made Simple My mother was a classroom teacher for more than 40 years and during that time she positively impacted the lives of thousands of her students. Her professional accolades were many from loving students, appreciative parents, admiring co-workers and mentoring principals. I knew this but, to […]
Join Adventurous Baby Boomers Like You Who Are Reinventing Retirement on a Revolutionary Voyage The world has changed dramatically since Baby Boomers took their first breaths. As a result, this huge demographic moving into retirement years will experience opportunities and challenges no other generation has faced. And, because such a large number will be living […]
There are a lot of villages out there and baby boomers are flocking to them to find — or create — a community that fits their lifestyle. The cultures of these villages are as varied as the locations. The biggest such village in the world is right here in sunny Florida. It’s […]
Success is Fighting the Good Fight: Helen Gordon Davis Helen Gordon Davis learned at an early age to stand up for herself and roll with the punches. At the age of two, her family lost it all in the 1929 market crash. Just seven years after that, her father died. She witnessed poverty first-hand and […]
Longevity Revolution: Living a Multi-Staged-Life It’s not working anymore. The three stages of life, that is: beginning/education, middle/work and end/retirement. That’s because of the longevity revolution, because our life expectancy is slowly, but surely, reaching 100 years globally. Today, we are living more than 30-years longer than our great-grandparents. This allows us an entire second […]
It is true we are, on average, living longer than our grandparents. It is also true our grandchildren will, barring an apocalyptic event, live even longer than we do. Experts say their odds of living beyond 100 years are better than 50 per cent. This longevity phenomenon is, understandably, creating a global revolution. Whether our […]
Success is Renewing Childhood Friendships If you’re lucky, you still hang on to your childhood friendships. In this ever-changing, whirling planet, it’s nice to be able to share a memory or relive a moment with someone who was there for your sixth birthday party, especially if your parents and grandparents have departed. And, so, six […]
Time to Reflect, Discover Your Destiny Celebrating another new year has prompted me, once again, to think about making at least one resolution. It’s not something I’m prone to do, however, given that so many of us break these promises just days after we make them. Nonetheless, I’m contemplating a big one this year: Discovering […]
My Great-Grandfather was a Spy: An Under-the-Radar Operative for José Martí Information about my paternal grandfather, Genaro Hernandez, was always scant and why was always a mystery to me. It all made sense, however, when my research took me to Key West, Florida to meet with Tom Hambright, revered local historian. Then and there I […]
Shelly Dorfman was two years old when she came out of the closet. Until then, a closet with a window was her bedroom in her family’s small Philadelphia apartment. Ironically, for a woman who would later become an accomplished and innovative literacy specialist, she had few books as a child. But her extended family […]
Lunch with an expert in adult transitions It’s not often one gets to have lunch with a true expert in adult transitions. So, since I am one of a boat-load of baby boomers in the midst of rewiring/ redefining/reinventing oneself, I jumped at the chance to corral Dr. Nancy Schlossberg when I ran into here […]
Baby Boomer Workplace Success May Lie in Encore Career Many Baby Boomers choose to stay in the workplace beyond the traditional age of retirement….and many choose an encore career. See how many of us are taking advantage of the multitude of ways and means and opportunities to head “back to school,” in many cases […]
Success is a Series of Adventures Jim Shirley grew up in the “cotton and bean country” of Helena, Arkansas where there was, in his words, a “pretty good public education system” and where he was surrounded by a lot of “concerned teachers.” Little did he know then, the adventures ahead. “We were poor, but […]
Success After 60 is…having a good financial plan The basis for financial success after 60 is having and following a good financial plan. In this video, experts give you important tips to get or keep you on track. Listen for ideas that will help you accumulate and maintain wealth, one of the pillars of success […]
Success is Being Radical St. Joseph, Missouri is known as being the starting point of the Pony Express, the death place of Jesse James and the town where Walter Cronkite was born. As the jumping off point to the Wild Wild West, this old frontier town is famous for its association with the most wanted […]
Every now and then you meet someone who can teach you a lesson. As I grappled with writing a blog post that had meaning and depth, I happened upon a conversation with a long-time, dear and trusted friend. She told me about someone she worked with whose spouse developed early Alzheimer’s some years ago. After […]
Art’s Passion for Fitness Art Mahoney says he grew up as a product of a “mixed marriage.” His father was Irish and his mother was Italian. In those days – two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor — that type of union raised eyebrows in his Queens, N.Y. neighborhood where Art grew up in […]
Bonnie Lattimer was not born juggling but she became good at it on the road to success. Her interest in design began when she was 10 but it would not be until she was 34 that she would begin formal training. In between, she grew up, married, had two children and worked as a dental […]
Baby Boomer Entrepreneurial Success If you’re a baby boomer entrepreneur, this Success After 60 TV segment is for you. Whether you want to start, grow or sell a business, the game plan is similar. You need to plan, build a team, execute, increase profit and stay ahead of your competition. Watch this video below for […]
Rite of Passage: Your 50th Reunion It happens in the blink of an eye. One day you are walking across the stage to pick up your kindergarten diploma. The next day you get an invitation to attend your 50th high school class reunion. The class was small – only 23 girls – and we […]
Success is Traveling Imagine yourself traveling through Spain, Morocco and Portugal. Now imagine doing this on a bus with 45 people, nearly all over 60. Covering three countries in 16 days can be challenging, even with a skilled bus driver and an experienced tour leader. The trip can turn from challenging to fascinating with […]
Success is Creating Fun A neighbor once told Jean Cochran something that she would remember for the rest of her life, something that would become her tagline. “You have to make up your mind that, if you’re going to have fun, it’s up to you to create it,” she said. “You can’t just wait for […]
Success After 60: Reinventing Retirement TV Series This is about you, the Baby Boomer. What you care about, what you want, what you need to know. This is about your present and your future. This is about your next or new phase of life. This is about reinventing, rewiring, repurposing, redirecting. This is about reinventing […]
Success is Feeling Normal & Grateful There’s nothing quite like a class reunion to snap you into reality and to question your definition of success. There you hear stories that, most likely, will make you feel normal…and grateful. First, you realize that not everyone is still around to share, brag or complain. Then you realize […]
Back in the day when doctors made house calls, Dr. Corum, our family physician, would pull up in front of our house with his medical bag at the end of what was surely a long day. He’d pull out his stethoscope and thermometer and do what he could to cure my ills. (This […]
Boomer Success: Hitting 70 2016 is the year our first wave of Baby Boomers hit 70. We are the generation that changed the world in the 60s and, by all indications, we are positioned to change the world again. Our contribution is, once again, due to our massive numbers. This time we are aging and, […]
Success is Stayin’ Alive We mark our lives with significant people and events. Sometimes, we don’t appreciate either until a lot of time has passed. Sometimes, it takes 50 years to want […]
Success is Enlightenment With Yoga It took Eleanor Wilson Williams awhile before she earned her degree from Harvard. Twenty-five years to be exact. She started her studies in 1958, dropped out to marry and rear four children, and returned to graduate cum laude in 1983. Success, right? Yet, at mid-life, that was just the […]
Success After 60: Music is the Magic “Age is a state of mind. It’s not how old you are….It’s how you are old.” So says Donna Caruso Baccarella who is rocking through her 70s with a full schedule as an attorney & counselor at law and vocalist for The Fabulous Rockers. It was her vocal performances that […]
Success is Creativity in Motion When Gale Fulton Ross moved out of her 4,000 square foot art studio recently after a successful 50-year career as an artist, one might think she’d be inclined to take a bow, pack it up, and call it a day. Instead she’s creating the next phase of her life as […]
Sailing Through Life and Navigating to Success. A native of the seaport city of Valparaiso, Chile, Jose Antonio Garnham graduated from high school and left home to attend the Universidad de Chile in Santiago to “change the world.” There he earned this first post-secondary credential, a Bachelor of Political Science and Public Administration majoring in […]
Success is Rewiring NOT Retiring! As we seek the key to retirement success, there are many who have come before us who can serve as inspirations. Many of these standouts have chosen rewirement over retirement. They have tenaciously and passionately chosen a goal and have refused to rest until they have reached it. Here’s a […]
Sarah Pappas is simply unstoppable success. Some people retire. Others don’t. Some can. Some won’t. The ones who don’t and won’t are the “unstoppables.” Sarah Hughes Pappas is one of these. With a step by step, methodical approach to career development and a simple formula for personal success, Sarah remains enthusiastically committed to her […]
Success is a Journey of Passion Growing up across the street from an orphanage can help explain why Jane Goodwin is so appreciative. And having her parents invite an orphan to live in their household while Jane was in high school can help explain how unspoiled she is despite otherwise being an only child. […]
Success is Being Ageless Sometimes I feel ageless. Other times, I feel about 120 years old. I can usually tell how the day will go when I roll out of bed. At the rate I’m going, I’d be surprised if outlived my father who, thank God, is still sharp as a tack but who keeps […]
The Lukowskis: Success is Almost Heaven The first time I met Michael and Judy Lukowski they were living in a trailer. Michael was a grad student at the University of Florida and Judy worked for UF as an agricultural extension agent. As natives of West Virginia, they were characteristically down to earth. And they were […]
Can discovering your roots give you a clue about the meaning of life? It seems that at about the age of 50, we suddenly realize that we likely have more years behind us than ahead of us. By the time we reach 60, it seems we “step on the gas” to find answers to life’s […]
How many times have you seen someone walk into a room and alter the energy level between the four walls? Actually it happens every time someone enters a room, for better or worse. The atmosphere changes. Now, it’s time for YOU to walk into a room and be the force, the energy that makes a […]
What is romance after 60? Where does it fit in, if at all, with sex? How do you define yourself as successful in this arena? Do you even care? Somewhere between complete chastity and dirty dancing is where many of us over 60 probably define ourselves. That’s a fact, however, only if you trust the […]
Moderate exercise could be your ticket to success with health after 60. Somewhere between being a couch potato and a fitness fanatic is apparently the sweet spot. A recent longtitudinal study of 660,000 people from ages 21-98 has given rise to recommendations to do 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week or 75 minutes of […]
Success is Finding Your Paradise Just as the definition of success is a personal one, so is the definition of paradise. It would be safe to say, however, that almost all of us want to be successful and live in paradise. So, exactly, where is paradise? Is it on the map? Is it […]
Successful grandparenting in the 21st century is a whole new ballgame. Family life has changed dramatically with the number of two-career couples living far away from grandparents. The family support system has altered greatly for many and the role of grandparents has morphed into a new reality. Here are 10 tips to consider: 1. Realistically […]
Retirement Changes: How to Soar “Reinvent, repurpose, rediscover, rewire, redirect, reimagine, renew, reflect, retire”….It seems like life is one “re” after another. An exception is “retirement.” Studies show most of us won’t be doing that, at least not in ways of our parents’ generation. There will be retirement changes unlike ever before Looks like we’ll […]