Sixty and Me

What do stereotypes say about young adults born between 1997 and 2012? What valuable role can grandparents play? To set aside judgment and open up the conversation, they have a key advantage: perspective. They know, for examp...

If you asked most women over 60 to describe how they feel, somewhere in the answer – underneath the gratitude and the carefully maintained perspective – you would find some version of the word tired.

Not sick-tired. Not age-tired. Something harder to name than either of those things.

I know this tiredness personally. I practiced criminal defense law for o...

Women of a certain age have already pursued so much – relationships, family, education, careers, caregiving, community. We’ve poured into everyone and everything around us. But eventually the question arrives, sometimes quietly, sometimes like a shout:

If you don’t know what to pursue next, pursue yourself. Pursue becoming the healthiest, happiest, mos...

For my 60th birthday, my children did something I didn’t know I needed and now can’t stop talking about, partly because it was thoughtful, and partly because I spent an entire morning wearing a tiara in public like a woman who had either just been crowned or recently escaped supervision.

They picked me up at 9:00 a.m. under the innocent pretense of breakfast. Mothe...

It seems in trying times, we hear of more people wanting to move out of the U.S. A lot of it is talk and daydreaming, but it’s not a new trend. It’s estimated that over 9 million Americans live abroad today. Retiring abroad is a growing trend for Americans, driven by a lower cost of living, better quality of life, and healthcare, with roughly 760,000 U.S. retirees receiving ...