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I saw a new study showing 70% of adults reject midlife stereotypes—and I thought, “Only 70%?” Because from where I sit, midlife looks less like a breakdown and more like a breakthrough with better taste. Even more telling: 71% say their best years are now or ahead. That tracks. Most people I know in their ...
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Who am I to write a travel blog post today when the famed travel writer and philosopher (and my hero) Pico Iyer starts teaching at MEA Santa Fe tonight? But,
July 8, 2024
Chip’s Note: I highly recommend you read Parts 1 and 2 before reading today’s guest post. “You look seventeen, what are you doing?!,” my close friend Katherine said the first
July 7, 2024
Chip's note: If you didn't read Part 1 yesterday, I suggest you read it.I booked two two-hour sessions with Michael on consecutive afternoons. I knew that one day one would
July 6, 2024
Chip’s Note: I’ve known “Madelyn” for more than a quarter-century and have always appreciated her authenticity. But, with this three-part series of her sexual awakening, she’s taken candor to a
July 5, 2024
Arriving in Baja with lots of baggage (not the Samsonite kind, the emotional kind), I found myself surrounded by my ilk, two-dozen 60ish professionals with their share of rollaboards (and
July 4, 2024
The answer to Chip’s blog post “Are You Better Off Happy & Single Than Unhappy & Married?” is now a “Hell Yes!” for me. When I finally decided to separate,
July 3, 2024
I ended my marriage in 2021 after 38 years together. COVID revealed many fissures. Once we had to remove our shared love of travel, dinners with friends, theater, and music
July 2, 2024
As a nearly-bald guy in his mid-sixties, I can relate. Of course, with or without hair, it’s easy to feel shabby and worn out as you get older. Fortunately, with
July 1, 2024
Having reconnected with my purpose at MEA in 2023, I began to look at the uncertainty that seems to have engulfed the world today in a different way. From anger
June 29, 2024
Eight years ago, then in my mid-40s, I attended a dinner party and overheard an older man, well into his gin, ask a young girl: “What do you want to
June 28, 2024
“Sur l’odeur propre de la terre” The day my daughter asked me If there was a name for the smell after rain I caught my breath As, in that
June 27, 2024
I don’t even have a TikTok account (you too?). I’ve thought I’m too old for that social media platform (my internal ageism). And, then, an MEA alum sent me this
June 26, 2024
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