When I was in San Francisco for our recent MEA alum reunion, I recalled a college memory of me trying to drive a stick shift on Russian Hill with my freaked-out girlfriend by my side. We had come up from Palo Alto for a weekend and borrowed a friend's car—manual transmission and all.

How many sunsets will you see in the rest of your life? How many weddings will you attend? How many times will you go on a picnic?

"Imagine a sign far off in the future with a number on it that represents the age of your death. Every year you live, you advance closer to the sign. When you reach the sign, you die."

UC Berkeley psychologist Robert Levenson is one of many academics who has demonstrated that while IQ stays relatively stable during one's adulthood, EQ rises with time.

I wrote this in response to the occasional feedback wondering why MEA has “Elder” in its name even though the word can be triggering.

You’ve heard the rumors. America’s most populous retirement community, The Villages in Florida, has more sexually transmitted diseases than the city of Miami on a per capita basis. That’s an urban myth, but there are all kinds of reasons this myth exists, as evidenced in this article.

In the spring of 2021, Molly and I enjoyed a three-week Sabbatical Session on the MEA campus in Baja along with our golden retriever. All three of us, including Jack, were fundamentally changed by the experience.

When you hear the phrase “developing character,” you probably think of a fast-growing adolescent navigating their way through the emotional, hormonal, relational, and identity transitions of their teens. But, why can’t “middlescents” (those of us going through the adult corollary of adolescence: “middlescence”) be developing character as we journey through midlife?

Philosopher Albert Borgmann talks about the experience of being fully alive in the world as moments when: (1) There is no place I would rather be. (2) There is no one I would rather be with. (3) There is nothing I would rather be doing. (4) And this I will remember well

This is the title of our free upcoming online event with Father Richard Rohr, one of the best-known modern-day Christian mystics. Mark your calendars: May 31. Richard is based in New Mexico, so I've had the honor of becoming his friend. On multiple occasions, he's visited our Saddleback Ranch, which will be our first Santa Fe area campus.