Longevity As A Resource: You Get Better As You Age

Published in Sixty and Me and Boomerly.com http://sixtyandme.com/longevity-is-a-resource http://www.boomerly.com/longevity-is-a-resource You might have entertained the idea that longevity is a resource. If that’s true, then you get better as you age. What a great concept! Do you really believe that? Or is

Sleep Deprived But Staying Alive

You know how something sounds like a good idea and, well, then isn’t? That happened to me last week when I joined a PhD research project on sleep and source memory at the University of Texas. My boyfriend requested (more

My Latest Retirement Tour: Advice That Could Change Your Life

Published in Sixty and Me http://www.boomerly.com/retirement-tour-this-retirement-advice-could-change-your-life/ http://sixtyandme.com/this-retirement-advice-could-change-your-life/http://www.boomerly.com/retirement-tour-this-retirement-advice-could-change-your-life/ http://sixtyandme.com/this-retirement-advice-could-change-your-life/ Cher and I have one thing in common when it comes to retirement. Along with other rock groups like “The Who,” Cher and I have had several final farewell, retirement tours. I’m

Colombia, The Jewel of South America, Part 2

In the months before I went to Colombia on tour, I was reading a book called Salt. Did you know that salt was the most precious commodity since almost the existence of mankind? Salt linked every city, every country, and

Colombia – The Jewel of South America, Part 1

Colombia is truly the jewel of South AMercia. I just returned from a tour of Colombia and I was astounded at my emotional connection. I considered that my travel dream came true when I experienced the natural beauty and the

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

If Christmas is supposed to be the happy time of the year, why are we so stressed, anxious and miserable? Why does so much unpleasant stuff come up in bucket loads during the Christmas holidays? Ever notice how many deaths

This Thanksgiving It’s Time To Put On Your Red Shoes And Dance

Published in Sixty and Me http://sixtyandme.com/put-on-your-red-shoes-and-dance-this-thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a time for sharing our gratitude with the world. It is also an opportunity for personal reflection. As we give thanks for the many wonderful people, places and things in our lives,

The Suffragette Movement – Lead On

I gave myself a birthday present today I treated my boyfriend and me to the movie Suffragette. I thought it might be a derivative retelling of the suffragette movement in the UK in the second decade of the 20th Century. It

Can You Really Trust Your Tattoo Artist?

As published in the Huffington Post 9. 21.2015 I got my first tattoo while living in Venice, California, in 1996. I was 53 years old, long before Baby Boomers had an inkling that tattoos were not just for bikers. Getting

5 Reasons Why Emotionally Intelligent People Are Happier

As posted in Linkedin 9.24.2015 Emotionally Intelligent People Are Happier On my way to New Orleans last December, I sat next to a man who was a project manager in northern California. Since I was about to embark on writing

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