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NOTE: Before you plug in your earphones to listen to your favorite audio book, first take a look at our lifelessonsat50plus.com homepage. Hit the homepage button and see how two age-defiers--us--enjoy life!  Barbara and Margaret                                               ****************** Whether you drive often and far or are in a car for short trips or like to take walks, many find it more pleasurable to be accompanied on their journey with an audiobook (many can be checked out of a public library...

If you are of a certain age, before photographic or movie images could be digitized, you remember using real film in our cameras, which produced slick or matte prints or slides kept in sleeves and boxes. Once the technology surfaced, we video recorded our events. Now, we all have a surfeit of these visual reminders of our lives well lived. These images are the most personal and precious of items for they freeze in time activities we did and people who may no longer be alive. However, as we get older and accumulate too much stuff, many of us know...

Having a way to visualize your life can make a difference in seeing things more clearly and help you make changes. We do it with our diets. You list what you ate one day, and then you grasp why you didn’t lose weight. Oh, that bag of chips and ice cream cone must have made the difference, as did never exercising! A pie chart can work as the perfect symbol to picture activities and map time allocated over a week, month or several months. The chart--a round circle--can be divided into any number of different pieces to display the relative...

We might not be dead yet (as our newly-released book points out in its title), but as we age, we find we’re attending more funerals, wakes and Shivas. Is it morbid to think of these venues as a place to do a meet and greet? Let’s be realistic. Where else can we go as we age to meet others when we’ve lost interest in Internet dating, have no intention of sitting in a bar, have friends who don’t know anyone to fix us up with and everybody we work with is half our age? Rationalize it this way. Funerals, wakes...

Aging is a challenge as we all know. However, it no longer means having to sit home alone, in a rocking chair on the porch, in front of the TV or waiting for the phone to ring. As aging boomers, whether healthy or not, let’s try to spend our time doing what we can and deal head on with whatever is thrown our way—illnesses, wrinkles and sagging skin, death of friends and family, grown children, aging parents, intimacy and sex, relationships, work and our passions, downsizing, estate planning and where to live in our final years and more. At least...