Women Over 55: What Are Your Important Buckets?

Women Over 55: What Are Your Important Buckets?

In a recent podcast, I interviewed a friend and former work colleague whom I hadn’t talked to in many years. It was so much fun seeing her again! She had a long and successful career at the company where we both worked and now is retired. I was eager to talk to her...
Women Over 55: How Do You Feel About Change

Women Over 55: How Do You Feel About Change

Do you think change is hard? We often hear people say that it is, or that they don’t like change, or that change takes a long time. What do you think? Alexandria Agresta, a dynamic speaker and speaking coach, says in her TEDx talk that “things don’t take time, they...
Women Over 55: Is This Over-the-Top?

Women Over 55: Is This Over-the-Top?

In my most recent newsletter, I railed against being called a lady, or being one of a group addressed as “Ladies…” Several weeks after that, the following headline appeared in an online newspaper: “Is ‘Ladies’ a microaggression? Diversity experts explain after...
Women Over 55: What Does “Hope” Mean to You?

Women Over 55: What Does “Hope” Mean to You?

When I turned on the radio this morning, the announcer was saying, “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” (Remember who said that? I didn’t, but when I looked it up, it was Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption.) Do you...
Women Over 55: How Do You Spend Your Time?

Women Over 55: How Do You Spend Your Time?

I recently read a quotation from Chip Conley of the Modern Elder Academy: “You can’t unroll a snowball.” That really struck me because I have been thinking a lot about the question “How do we spend our time?” It’s a good question to think about at any point in our...