Tag Archives: Life

Help With Letting Go of Life’s Regrets

Help With Letting Go of Life’s Regrets

As a longtime counselor with the Institute on Aging’s Friendship Line,  the country’s only accredited crisis intervention line and warmline focused on callers age 60 and older, I listen to and talk with dozens of callers each week—many of them anxious, distressed, in crisis, or depressed. It’s a volunteer gig, and understandably, not everyone’s bag […]

What I Have Learned to Value Most

What I’ve Learned to Value Most

Time teaches us many things. I’ve learned that every season of life has new lessons to teach me. You never know it all and you’re never too old to learn new ones. I’ve learned lessons from my kids and my grandkids but the most important lessons I’ve learned have been from my folks. People Matter […]

What is the Key to Happiness? Ask a Senior

portrait of happy grandfather and grandson bow their heads

When I was young, I thought being happy meant having “things.” As a young adult, obtaining a good job, buying a nice house and driving a neat car were a part of my plan to happiness. The older I got the more I found out that things cannot make you happy. Still I struggled with […]