Dr. Paul Lam, Tai Chi for Health Institute I don’t need to give you all the details of my wonderful, overly full life for you to understand that sometimes it feels like I’m spinning out of control. It…
Award-winning journalist John Leland spent a year visiting with six culturally diverse seniors, all eighty-five and older. In his book Happiness Is A Choice You Make, he weaves together the stories and lessons he learned from them about aging with grace and joy. The lessons…
When I made the decision nearly 40 years ago to leave my first husband and father of my two children, many well meaning friends and family members lectured me, saying I needed to have the guts to stay in the relationship and make it…
Have you ever resented the way someone demonstrated their caring and love for you? Even though you knew they meant well? I have. And I’d like to learn how to not do this to people I care about. While researching my parents’ lives for a forthcoming…
One of my last blog posts reviewed some of the things I’ve learned about the interconnectedness of loneliness and social media: Loneliness is a growing epidemic, seemingly fueled at least in part by social media use. Social media use is rampant and growing, seemingly…
We all know that sex can be exciting, compelling and revitalizing. But did you know that when researchers recently asked happily married couples how important sex was to the success of their marriage — on a scale of one to ten, with ten being the highest — the…