​She was known to be a gourmet. For her 117th birthday, she ate foie gras, roasted capon, cheese and a dessert similar to a baked alaska....

In the end, loving yourself is about enjoying your life, trusting your own feelings, taking chances, losing and finding happiness,...

What is happiness, anyway? Does anybody know? It’s taken me 80 years to figure out that it’s not a tranquil, sunlit realm at the top of...

​We’re often led to believe that getting older is in itself somehow a betrayal of our idealistic younger self, but sometimes I think it...

"… in folklore, the hag, while appearing to be the epitome of people’s fears about aging, is actually a positive archetype. 'The hag is a...

You are not the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or a week ago. You are always growing. Experiences don't stop. That's life....

Your 20s (​80's) are the perfect time to do a few things that are unusual, weird, bold, risky, unexplainable, crazy, unprofitable, and...

“Old people like to give good advice, as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.” ​                        ...

“I’ll go on until I fall over,”  David Hockney, 85

LASTLY, WE HOPE THAT YOU LIVE IN A STATE OF CONSTANT WONDER As we accumulate years, parts of our imagination tend to dull. Whether from...

The events in our lives happen in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order…the continuous thread of...

Investor Josh Wolfe on the best advice he ever received:   “The best, most useful advice I ever got was from Jim Watson, [the scientist...

“I feel healthy. I feel stronger in aspects of my being that I did not have when I was younger. So I call it aging into health — find...

“Life teaches you how to live it if you live it long enough.”   Tony Bennett, a legend who died at 98, July 2023

We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.  – ​                                                            ...

Sleep in? … “Lay there and stare at the ceiling?” he groans. “I’m 84. I’m not sure how many days I’ve got left to live, but I know one...

Walk like you know where you are going.

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotch-potch of impulses, our perpetual miracle — for the...

Everyone will be old in their own way. And what does anyone really know about being old until they are old themselves? It’s just how we...

Everyone will be old in their own way. And what does anyone really know about being old until they are old themselves? It’s just how we...