Nearly 40% of us have a younger boss. If you’re 55 years old, it’s 70% likely your boss is your junior chronologically. By the year 2025, it’s estimated that the majority of Americans will have a boss that is younger than them.

In this recession, many Boomers are busy brushing up their Slack and Instagram skills, doing their best to stay relevant. Maybe there’s another newly discovered skill that has even greater upside?

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.

I remember the first time I saw the acronym for the Institute for Retired Professional, IRP. Wow, that felt a little too close to RIP! Not sure people later in their career want to join a school that reminds them of a tombstone.

Carl Honoré is well-known for tackling both the cult of speed and the cult of youth in his TED talks and his bestselling books, published in 35 languages. He’s a few years younger than me, but he’s quickly becoming my mentor as I’m intuiting our synapses fire together.

Everyone deserves a makeover from time to time. Thanks to IDEO vet and MEA alum Jenn Maer’s leadership, the Modern Elder Academy has a spankin’ brand new website, logo, and brand identity.

My late teen utopism didn’t lead me to Marx. I read Rand. Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and other libertarian manifestos that fed my belief that rugged individualism made the world a better place.

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.

Remember the Canadian rock band, BTO: Bachman-Turner Overdrive? Okay, I know I’m dating myself, not to mention revealing my unsophisticated high school music taste.

I live on a “calle sin nombre” (a street with no name) in a town with no cul de sacs. But, our rural, beachfront ‘hood and MEA program welcomes mid-lifers who are often stuck in a “career cul de sac.” It’s joyous when our “compadres” (students) get to mix with our vecinos (neighbors).