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Growing into My Love for Gardening
I have long had a love/hate relationship with gardening. My mother loved having flowers and in the hot Texas sun in the summer, with tons of other options for my time, I hated weeding her flower bed....
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7 Small Steps to a Happier, Healthier Life After 60
Do you feel like you need a life-lift? Do you think that if a few things in your life would change you’d face each day with more hope and joy? It does seem that after 60 some changes happen fast –...
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Do You Know Who You Are Today? Take Time to Recognize Your 60-Something Self
The story we are telling ourselves is crucial to living our ThirdThird, ages 60-90, with grace and purpose. Recently, I experienced a short period of being uncharacteristically melancholic. I am...
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What You Might Not Know About Diabetes Prevention
Of course, I said YES! when I was asked by the Wellness Director of our local YMCA if I might be interested in training to be a lifestyle coach for a new program they are going to offer. It’s one on...
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6 Words You Must Not Say
Long ago, a friend told me her fiancé had given her a huge gift. He was multi-lingual and had many dictionaries. He told her he went through every one of them and removed the word “divorce.” Removed…...
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9 Ideas for Managing Dark Days
Now that the holidays are over, there is no getting around the fact that there is still a long winter to get through. Even in a pandemic, planning for holidays was a distraction from the fact that we...
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What Do You Look for in Friends After 60?
The old quote by Jim Rohn, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with,” bears attention, even in our ThirdThird (ages 60-90). A few years ago, I was in a period of change,...
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Reminder from My Younger Self: Things It Would be Cool to Do One Day
I was trying to unclutter my living space recently and found a folder titled “50 Things.” I’m pretty sure this was from around 2000. It was a time when my years with kids at home were waning and a new...
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Which “Old Woman” Will You Be? How to Become the “Nice” One
When my boys were small, I wanted them to feel comfortable around “old people.” We lived far away from grandparents and had little natural interaction with people older than 30, so I thought that...
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Stop! Think of One Thing That Makes You Happy in Your 60s and Smile!
I saw a meme on Facebook last week with the following instruction: “Think of one thing that makes you happy and smile.” Not, “think of something that makes you happy and makes you smile,” but “think...
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5 Ways to Relax and Enjoy Life After 60 Even More
I’m in my ThirdThird now (ages 60-90) and I find there are things I used to care a lot more about than I do now. Priorities, experience, wisdom, adapting – whatever the reason, I am much more flexible...
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Things My Mother Always Said – That Now I Know Were True
When my mother was the age that I am now, I had five children, ages 11 to 3. I was home schooling all of them, making food from scratch, and living my best earth-mother-type life. And, I had a...
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Eight Months in My Cancer Journey
Cancer. Not a diagnosis anyone wants to hear. But many of us will hear it, if we live long enough. One source tells me that 25% of us will have cancer at some point in our lives. I was a month out...
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Reaping Good Results from Quitting Negative Behaviors
In a bit of a recycle of information, I ran across a post I wrote in 2018. Four years ago. I wrote it thinking about the woman I would like to be in my “older” age, like 80s and 90s. It was a list of...
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What to Say (Or Not Say) to Someone Who Is Terminally Ill
I’ve been on this trek (more arduous than a journey) with terminal cancer for a year now. For six months or so, I kept silent about my diagnosis to give me time to process and adjust with my family...
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Age 80? Or 90? Terminal Illness? It’s not the End of Joy
Every once in a while, I think I’d like to go on a trip. An adventure. Where Would I Go? Maybe a return to the southern coast of Oaxaca, Mexico to a small beach town called San Agustinillo. And it...
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Building Your Health Care Team Falls on You
When I was first diagnosed with terminal cancer, I had the mistaken idea that I would have professionals who would help me understand what was happening and what I/we would do about it. I felt I...
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7 Ways to Make Eating at Home Fun and Good
Eating at home can be better and more fun than dining out every day. In this article I share seven ways to make home food preparation interesting. For many years, it was my responsibility to feed our...
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8 Steps for Creating Your Own Road Map for Your 60s and Beyond
For the first 60 years or so of our lives, we are on a well-marked super highway with plenty of directional signs. Graduate from High School. Go to College. Choose a career. Earn money. Buy a house,...
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7 Things I Thought I Would Be Good at When I Reached Age 60
Some things I have mastered. Mostly, things that I’ve done over and over, often with little attention. Things like driving a car. Or riding a bicycle. Or brewing a pot of coffee. No need for deep...
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