Guest Post: Embodied Wisdom on Wheels and Waves at 72!

“For years, I’ve learned more from watching the X Games and surfing documentaries than from reading dharma (and mindfulness) books”,

Sharon Colby

October 26, 2025

Guest Post: Embodied Wisdom on Wheels and Waves at 72!

Guest Post: Being in Love

For the first time in my life, I am “in love.” I am literally living from a place of love. 

Elizabeth Young

October 25, 2025

Guest Post: Being in Love

How Can You Grow the EQ of Your Millennial or GenZ Kids?

What if midlife crises are going extinct? According to a recent Newsweek article summarizing data from more than ten million

Chip Conley

October 24, 2025

How Can You Grow the EQ of Your Millennial or GenZ Kids?

How Can I Be a Success and a Failure at the Same Time?

I’ve always liked doing hard things. My first hotel had “failure” written all over it — a bankrupt pay-by-the-hour motel

Chip Conley

October 23, 2025

How Can I Be a Success and a Failure at the Same Time?

You Deserve a “Refresh” in Baja

Every year, MEA opens our Baja campus during the Christmas/NY Eve holidays for people to experience this time of the

Chip Conley

October 22, 2025

You Deserve a “Refresh” in Baja

Arriving at 60: Not a Decline, But a Homecoming

Two recent articles — one on WIBC (“People Hit Their Cognitive Peak at 60”) and another via The Conversation (“Worried

Chip Conley

October 21, 2025

Arriving at 60: Not a Decline, But a Homecoming

The Golden Girls Reimagined: What Our Housing Survey Reveals About the Future of Friendship and Aging

We recently wrapped up our Golden Girls Housing Survey, and the results made me smile — and think — in

Chip Conley

October 20, 2025

The Golden Girls Reimagined: What Our Housing Survey Reveals About the Future of Friendship and Aging

French Immersion and the Lesson of Long-Life Learning

I’ve always wanted to learn a second language. Since my wife and I spend so much time in France —

Bob Cavnar

October 19, 2025

French Immersion and the Lesson of Long-Life Learning

What’s the Reaction When You Enter a Room?

You know how you felt every time “what’s his name” entered the room. What’s he going to bitch and moan

Jim Flaherty

October 18, 2025

What’s the Reaction When You Enter a Room?

“If My Life is Full, Why Do I Feel Empty?”

Here’s the thing: fullness and fulfillment are not the same species. One is about quantity—how many meetings, how many shoes,

Chip Conley

October 17, 2025

“If My Life is Full, Why Do I Feel Empty?”

The Longevity Gap: Why Women Outlive Men (and Why They Deserve To)

According to a recent Washington Post article, women don’t just live longer than men — they’ve been doing it across

Chip Conley

October 16, 2025

The Longevity Gap: Why Women Outlive Men (and Why They Deserve To)

Are We on the Edge of a “Demographic Crisis?”

The Atlantic’s recent piece, “The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard — It’s Worse,” argues that global fertility

Chip Conley

October 15, 2025

Are We on the Edge of a “Demographic Crisis?”