Welcome to a collection of thoughts, tips, and techniques on living a Wise and Wild and Wonderful Life.
A wise and wild life is a rich, joyous, wonderful life.
It’s using all the wisdom you’ve gathered so far to create the life of your dreams and adding a touch of wildness in the form experimentation, openness to new things and seeing joy.
It’s a life of your own choosing.
There’s always something new to try, to think about, to savor.
There are thousands of women over fifty creating wise, wild and wonderful lives, and some of their stories will be here.
Come play with us!
Shirley Temple, Action Hero
You might not think of that adorable little girl with the smiling face and cute dimples as an action hero, but, for many of us who grew up in the mid-40's and early 50's, she was. I lost my mother before I was nine and could easily relate to the many movies where...
read moreMaking Choices Beyond Fear
Q. You’re so excited by all this. I guess I’m wondering what made you suddenly at 60 say, “I’m going to say yes to anything that comes along and see what happens.” No, it’s not that I say yes to anything -- and in fact, I say no to a lot of projects but what I’m doing...
read moreMusic, Music, Music
We're sitting in the TV lounge of Brubacher Hall waiting for the Ed Sullivan Show to begin. Fifty years ago today. Anna actually has a Beatles album (as I remember), and we might be more jealous of that than the XKE her father gave her to cheer her up during exam...
read moreRetirement Advice? Maybe.
As I complete the editing of the 50 Over 50 interviews, I keep finding wonderful moments that I had practically forgotten. This is from Connie Duckworth's interview. Connie is the founder of ARZU. Here's the advice she was given about retirement: People gave me what...
read moreSailing Down My Golden River … Farewell, Pete
When I was nine or ten I spent my first summer at sleep-away camp. Camp Quannacut was a lazy, farm-like space in Pine Bush, New York. It had a big farmhouse with a huge back porch overlooking a valley. It was there, one magic afternoon, that we gathered to hear a...
read moreOh, Those Grammys! Room for the Elders
I will admit to being close to musically illiterate. Stuck in a time warp. So, as you may imagine, it's pretty unusual for me to watch the Grammy Awards. There was something in the promos that was intriguing, though. There would be a number of pairings of older and...
read moreThe Learning Curve: Kindle and Errors
As I lifelong learner, I'm interested in the many things I'm learning as I get closer to bringing Fifty Over Fifty into the world. To that end, I've been working with other material to explore self-publishing in general and Create Space and Kindle in particular. My...
read moreBye Bye Love – A Moment of Musical Nostalgia
If you are an American woman over sixty, you remember the early days of rock and roll and you remember the Everly Brothers. You may remember slow dancing in someone's basement to All I Have To Do Is Dream or Let It Be Me. You didn't know - or care - that you were...
read moreSandwiched
One of my over-fifty friends who is not in the book is part of the sandwich generation - and hers is, unfortunately a club sandwich. I watch and marvel the incredible juggling act that is her life. This isn't what she planned. Her retirement was going to be full of...
read moreWhat’s Next?
As I move into a new year, even as I practice staying grounded in the present, I wonder what's next. Certainly, everything is possible every day, yet somehow we pick a few special days to acknowledge this - birthdays, New Year's Day; for some of us, still wed to the...
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