Most days, I feel like Nadia Comaneci exhibiting visual poetry with my command of the balance beam of life. But on a few rare days, I feel like I can barely walk to the bathroom when I wake up in the morning. Forget about the balance beam or the high wire act. A tricycle feels more my speed. Yesterday was one of those days.

As the executive director of Wallis Annenberg GenSpace – a new community space for older adults in Los Angeles – I have the great privilege of interacting with older adults who are at different phases in their work lives.

Alfred Nobel had the rare experience of reading his own obituary, and what he saw deeply distressed him. A brilliant scientist, Nobel was a prodigious chemist and inventor. He was awarded hundreds of patents during his career, the most famous being for dynamite.

There’s mounting evidence that suggests those who are unemployed long-term are twice as likely to be over the age of 50 than younger. It’s hard to pinpoint one reason for this. Still, it seems to be a combination of ageism, a confidence gap for many older workers regarding their tech skills, and a growing apathy amongst workers 50+ concerning the modern workplace.

The Siletz river banks are high from yesterday’s Tsunami, created by an underground volcano off the island of Tonga. NASA said the resulting blast was hundreds of times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

Before Peter Bowes approached me to do his podcast, I’d never heard of the expression “Live Long and Master Aging,” which translates to the LLAMA in the title above. You can listen to it here, but here’s the distilled version summed up into three habits.

Packing for a 5 day retreat at the Modern Elder Academy, I have a good idea on how to get started.

As we develop each of our MEA campuses, we brainstorm the adjectives and experiences that might create a set of original spaces.

Not all young adults were meant to be software developers. Some are better suited to be soft skills developers.

Not sure if you saw this recent piece of news out of Australia, but it sounds a lot like a Thelma and Louise love story.