Inflammation is one of the most important health concepts of the past decade — and one of the most misunderstood. It’s not inherently bad. Acute inflammation is the body’s essential response to injury, infection, and cellular damage. The problem is chronic, low-grade inflammation — a persistent, sim
Walking is the most underrated form of exercise in existence. It requires no equipment, no gym membership, no special clothes, and no athletic ability. Yet its health benefits — documented across thousands of studies — rival those of much more intense forms of exercise for a wide range of outcomes.
Grandparenthood is one of the most consistently reported sources of joy and meaning in later life — and one of the most navigable to get wrong. The grandparent who builds a genuine relationship with a grandchild is doing something specific and valuable: creating a bond between generations that enric…
Gray divorce — among adults over 50 — has doubled since the 1990s. What’s driving it, what the financial stakes are (retirement accounts, Social Security, the marital home), and how to navigate what comes after.
Sexual desire and physical intimacy don’t disappear with age — they change and often deepen. An honest, informative guide to sex after 60: what changes, what helps, what the research shows, and why the silence around this topic is harmful.
New love after loss is one of the most emotionally complex experiences in later life. A compassionate, honest guide to navigating grief, guilt, the permission question, and what to expect when you start dating again after widowhood.
Toxic relationships — those characterized by chronic patterns of disrespect, emotional manipulation, control, contempt, or harm — don’t become acceptable with age. They don’t become easier to tolerate because the relationship is long-established. They don’t become worth staying in because starting o…
Architecture is the art form that surrounds everyone constantly and is actively perceived by almost no one. We move through buildings every day — offices, homes, churches, museums, train stations, shopping streets — and notice them, if at all, in the most superficial way: attractive or not, convenie…
There is a specific form of writing that only becomes possible after a certain amount of life has been lived and enough time has passed to see it clearly. Memoir — the written account of personal experience that attempts to find the meaning in what happened, to understand the self that did the livin…
Art collecting has a reputation for being the province of the extremely wealthy — hedge fund managers buying at Sotheby’s, corporate collections assembled by acquisition committees, the names on museum donor walls. This reputation obscures the reality that serious, meaningful collecting happens at e…
How to build genuine confidence later in life — what confidence actually is, why it requires action before certainty, and specific practices that work.
The psychology of letting go of identity tied to work and professional roles — why it’s hard, and practical approaches for navigating the process.