By Caroline Hall Let me get to the point first–Baby Boomers have redefined every stage of life by envisioning new possibilities. And now I’ll tell you a story: This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Summer of Love, a brief shining...
By Katherine Olivetti When my colleagues at LIFE REINSPIRED wanted to include the topic: LEGACY in the program we were designing for folks who were in the range of retirement, I balked. Why legacy? Here’s what I didn’t know—I’d already done it. And I want to tell you...
By Sabrina Roblin One of the best medicine’s for health and well-being especially in the 50’s and beyond is exercise. Its benefits have been widely documented. Not only does exercise improve joint mobility and increase physical strength and energy, it can improve...
By Caroline Hall Learning for its own sake (unfettered by talent) In last week’s blog post, Michael McNeill wrote about the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain workshop we took together—and how it helped us discover a new way of looking at the world. I’ve had a few...
By Michael Karr McNeill Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain OK, so my wife and I are not planning to move to France and sketch the River Siene while admiring passers-by vie for our output. That said, Caroline has wanted to take a “Drawing from the Right Side of the...
By Katherine Olivetti One of the wonders of being alive today is brain research. Many ideas that we have intuitively believed to be true are now being documented with hard scientific facts. It is well known that receiving social support is associated with reduced...
By Sabrina Roblin One of the biggest obstacles to change of any kind is fear. Any transition, especially one as big as letting go of a long time career for what we traditionally call retirement, can ignite a lot of fear. When fear gets the best of us at this stage...
By Caroline MacNeill Hall I went to the touring show matinee “A Night with Janis Joplin” last Saturday. The show was celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Summer of Love in San Francisco that launched the hippie movement in 1967. The whole audience was 16-28 then...
By Katherine Olivetti In thinking about creating the next chapter of your life, one of the essential tasks is reviving the imagination. For many folks adult life hasn’t been conducive to that task. Assignments, routine protocols, supervising staffs, executing...
By Sabrina Roblin When we hit transition points in life, especially big ones like retiring from a career, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and stuck, trying to figure out what’s next. A number of different things can keep us from moving forward – we’re at a loss as...
By Katherine Olivetti Last month I traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a film festival, “Movies and Meaning”. I had never attended this particular festival before and found the selection of films especially interesting. We previewed a documentary that is...
By Caroline Hall Up until the day I graduated from college, my life path was pretty linear. Kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade….and so on, right through college. And yes, I had to choose where to go to college, but my mom had strong opinions about...
By Katherine Olivetti In a previous blog post I wrote about how important it is to find the right philanthropic activity—and by that I mean the one that suits you the best. I want to elaborate on that...
By Michael MacNeill Who doesn’t have an idea about a practice or venture that is needed in the world but you’ve neglected it for lack of time and attention? Maybe it has required travel or resources, hands-on participation, or more opportunity to promote it to those...
By Michael Karr McNeill Want to rewrite parts of your life? Want to make amends? Want to redeem a mistake and offer an apology, even if the event is long past? Want to put your money—and effort—where your mouth is? Frank Sinatra and Willy Nelson sang: “Mistakes, I’ve...
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