The second half of life – it starts with a transition

The second half of life – it starts with a transition

Any of these life events happen to you yet? – end of a marriage, loss of a job or business, death of a partner, an illness, or retirement? Some element of your identity is gone – you are not a husband or wife, a job title, or the vibrant active person you were...
When interests don’t align – yours and your partner’s

When interests don’t align – yours and your partner’s

What are couples most worried about on the relationship front looking ahead to retirement? Getting enough alone time. Concern about different interests and priorities from their partner’s was a scant second. Not quite the rose-coloured image of happy couples walking...

Save Your Brain — Use Your Hands!

Use your hands much? One of the most protective things you can do against aging is to learn a manual skill when you’re young … and keep it up. Strumming a guitar, knitting, tying a lure — all those things that a younger you rolled their eyes at — valuable lubrication...

Rediscovering Yourself in Retirement: Tom’s Story

Tom is not someone who expected to struggle with the free time of retirement. He had never been into his work. Whereas it provided a steady income and valuable medical benefits it did not give him those “yes!” moments described by Lisbie Rae in her reflections on...

Cobbling Together a Life With Purpose

Lisbie Rae responded to the call for Next in Life reader submissions. Her reflections speak to how it feels to live with purpose, a subject previously covered here. Lisbie nails it when she sees her activities went beyond “I like doing this,” to “This is what I’m...