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YOU Control Your Future

How quickly life can pass us by. In our youth it feels as if we have an eternity to accomplish the many fleeting things that pass through our naïve imagination. The places we will see, the jobs we will have, the great feats that we will conquer. Yet, for far... Read more →

Midlife Men are Out There. Just not in Your Face(book).

How we consume online media depends on age and gender. Women over 50 are the fastest growing demographic on Facebook while 50+ men logging on drops off significantly. “The Great Male Survey,” a study sponsored by AskMen.com, found that texting is definitely where the young teens are at but, by... Read more →

Managing Your Finances At Midlife

Everyone expects to be broke when they are first starting out, but it can be a devastating source of anxiety trying to pick up the pieces of one’s finances at middle age. It can be done however. Here are five ways to reboot your finances at midlife. 1. Make Like... Read more →

Man's Search for Home

A lifetime of plans and dreams are packed into a container and shipped from Los Angeles to a Caribbean island; but for a writer and immigrant from post-WWII Europe, the past is hard to forget and even harder to leave behind. Passage From England is the emotional journey of a... Read more →

Midlife Career Changes: Boomers Not So Blasé

The difficulty people 55 and older have had in finding their footing in our downsized economy is well chronicled. According to the Small Business Administration, more than five million Americans age 55 or older run their own businesses or are otherwise self-employed. The number of self-employed people ages 55 to... Read more →

The Aging Brain: Brain Plasticity

It’s no surprise that the most emailed story over the weekend was from The New York Times about the aging brain. After all, we know that no one under 40 reads the paper anymore. Embracing the online version of news is indicative of the middle age brain’s ability to adapt... Read more →

Men of a Certain Age

In spite of a publicist contacting me four times and a Warner Bros. rep promising to send a preview DVD in the hope that I would review the TNT show, Men of a Certain Age, I managed to miss the launch episode. If I weren't such a fan of The... Read more →

Facing Oneself Most Essential

Image via Wikipedia BoomerLifestyle.com commented last month on the post about Baby Boomers spending habits changing. Love your concept that we might use this recession not only as a bellwether for change, but also as an opportunity to "reinvent ourselves as a less consumption-based society/culture." Since you've already cut worthless... Read more →