Kick Back or Live With Purpose? Why Choose?

Kick Back or Live With Purpose? Why Choose?

New research shows it’s a false dichotomy for people over 50 A recent New York Times op-ed piece, “Boomers Reach the End of Their To-Do Lists,”  kicked up a lot of dust. “By the time you’ve worked long enough, hard enough, real life begins to reveal itself as...
No Kids. What’s Your Legacy?

No Kids. What’s Your Legacy?

The questionnaire from the estate lawyer has been sitting on my desk for six months. “Just focus on the hit-by-a-bus version,” he advised, knowing wills tend to fall to the bottom of everyone’s list. “You can always update it.” Still, I’m paralyzed. My husband and I...
March For Our Lives: 50+ And Stepping Up

March For Our Lives: 50+ And Stepping Up

They’ll take to the streets at the March 24 student-led protests On Saturday, March 24, at 10 a.m., the March for Our Lives demonstration to end gun violence and mass shootings will begin in Washington, D.C. and sister marches in 837 cities around the world. Hundreds...
We Are the Elders Who Remain.

We Are the Elders Who Remain.

As the people in Pittsburgh begin to bury their loved ones, massacred inside the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday, my thoughts turn to my own father’s funeral last year and a passage from the Talmud read that day. It’s the story of a rabbi passing through a field,...