Chip Conley

Is Father Time the bully that sneaks up on you or the fairy that grants you wishes? Your answer to that question will determine how long you live, not to mention the quality of your life.

It’s been said, “Santa Fe may wear the mantle of great age, but because she welcomes the new and exciting, she never grows old.”

87% of Americans fear getting old. Our top worry seems to be losing our physical abilities, followed by mental, financial, and chronic illness, the fear of dying, and burdening others. Oy vey, that's a lot to worry about.

Six years ago, Stanford Medicine became the first major healthcare organization to create a Chief Wellness Officer (CWO).

Yes, we become more physically frail as we age, but is that the only field we should play on? What if our playing field moves from the body to the mind, heart, and soul in the second half of our adult life?

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." - Rainer Maria Rilke

I’m a bit of a New York Times addict. Among other things, I love that they can have two seemingly contradictory articles in the same year: one outlining the aging loneliness epidemic and the other extolling the virtues of solitude as we age.

Why is it that “SuperAgers” possess brains as sharp as people 20 or 30 years younger?

In “American Beauty,” Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who finds himself in the middle of a midlife crisis. At 42 years old, life has been a frustrating mixture of lost opportunity, frustrated longing, and oppressive social constraint.