I know what it’s like to lose everything. My life (as I knew it) ended in 1996 when my oldest daughter, Jenna, died while studying abroad. At age 21, her life was just beginning. And I was crushed. Every cell in my being turned inside
The Industry of Aging
An excerpt from Courageous Aging: Your Best Years Ever Reimagined Chapter 6 – The Industry of Aging: Pop Culture, Wrinkle Cream, and Annuities In this culture that hides from, denies, and avoids the very facts of aging and death, we often hear a powerful negative message
When “Positive Thinking” Isn’t Enough
It started back in the early 70s when I was a young graduate student in psychology, working in the trenches at a mental-health center where clients had deep-seated emotional problems. At that time, Born to Win by Zig Zigler, The Power of Positive Thinking by
Compressing Time
The Lost Art of Compressing Time We all live in the stream bed of time. Sometimes the waters move agonizingly slow and we ache for the future. And then, there are times when time seems to “fly,” leaving us in its wake, yearning to slow
Hot Flash in Costco!
“Ever wonder why so many of us women camp out in the freezer section at Costco?” my friend asked me the other day while she was having a full-blown hot flash. “Having been suddenly and mysteriously assaulted by our own sweat glands, and fearful of
Mirror Talk
5 Steps to Making Peace with Your Reflection We do it all the time — that is, catch a glimpse of ourselves in the mirror. Whether in the bathroom, hallway, rearview mirror, or store window, it’s a part of our everyday lives to look at
When Father’s Day is a Mixed Blessing
For a lot of us, Father’s Day, 2017, will be a mixed blessing. It will be a day of both great sorrow and great joy. My day will begin with a short drive to the cemetery where my Dad and “angel daughter,” Jenna are buried.
Compassion Fatigue is Real
Do you ever feel like you simply have no more to give? During the course of a normal life—whether it’s with aging parents or overextended with small kids or during a stressful transition—we enter periods where we are way over extended. And then our capacity
When Humor Hurts
What happens when comedy crosses the line of good taste and poking becomes slashing. Some of us grew up with humor as a love language. Our families expressed love through joking around, teasing, and horseplay. Memories, like “the time” my sister and I mistook Desitin
To Age Courageously
Writing my new book, Courageous Aging (Morgan James, Spring 2017), has been quite the education. With more than 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day, the challenges and opportunities for each of us personally, and as a society, are unprecedented. Not only are we rethinking what
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