Guest Post

Here’s the situation We have never lived this long. Today, there are more of us entering this transition into later life with twenty years or more ahead of us than at any other time in history. Let’s use this opportunity to make new choices.

My friend and modern elder Tom Frank created something generative for society that Ashton Kutcher has been promoting on his Facebook page. Here’s Tom’s story.

When you’re 102 and a thread of your carefully constructed life is arbitrarily pulled, the resilience of the weave can give way very rapidly. Such is the case of Shirley, a resident in a community for older adults. In the mere two months of having to shelter in her apartment due to the coronavirus, she went from being mildly confused to completely lost.

To Christine and Chip (Pronouns applied equally throughout to women and girls) The carpenter was a busy man His work his passion and joy He had dedicated all to carpentry Since he was just a boy

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I was a biochemist. Lately, I’ve found myself a little wistful about that, but that’s another story. Were I to go back now, I’d have a hell of a lot of catching up to do. Since my days in the lab with Jack, Hugo, Hermann et al at the Max Planck Institüt in Frankfurt, understanding of the mechanism of transport across the cell membrane has moved on.

After 20 years of working in the hospitality industry, having helped a global hotel chain become the well-respected brand it is today, I quit the job I loved.

In six short months, the world of work, travel and interpersonal connection may have changed forever. Covid has forced the entire world to find new ways to connect for work and play. It is now a daily practice to use Zoom, WhatsApp, Facetime or Google Meet from our desks, bedrooms or patios.

A tale of Spenditude and making decisions in a relationship. Money attitudes are called your Spenditude. When these hard-wired attitudes collide in a relationship there is a mis-matched Spenditude. It happens in far too many partnerships.

Chip: Language is funny. Well, that’s not too eloquent. Okay, language is illuminating. One of my closest friends for 35 years has been Gabriel Galluccio. While I’m struggling (and enjoying) learning a second language, Spanish, living in Mexico, Gabriel knew seven languages by the time I met him in San Francisco.

I once had my astral chart done by a wise man in Nepal. He predicted that I would have a child in my late thirties and publish a book and become a serious writer in my fifties. He was off by a few years. I had my son at forty-four years old, after multiple miscarriages.