There’s a psychological term for this fear of aging, Gerascophobia. The word comes from the Greek words “gerasko” (I grow old) and “phobos” (fear). Honestly, I fear mispronouncing this word,

So many of us experience the second half of life not as a decline but as a fullness: a sense that the world is bigger than our ego and petty

I’ve written a few blog posts about the value of writing one’s obituary as a living inventory of how you want to be remembered. The prospect of death can be

Warning: I’m going to get a little neuroscience geeky on you, which is why I’m going to start with this quote from cognitive neuroscientist Emily Rogalski, a professor of psychiatry