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In an effort to get the word out about the value of learning later for older adults, I am now blogging on five different sites. My very first blogging site is www.blogger.com. This is the site that is connected to my web site, www.learninglater.com, and everything I input into Blogger appears on my Home Page Blogger, a division of Google is, according to their web site, “focusing on...

A wonderful article about my book appeared in the Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. Entitled “Live and learn Pelham writer touts the benefits of new experiences for a vital retirement,” by Nancye Tuttle, the article, along with my picture took up the entire front page of the Lifestyles section of the paper. I was speechless when I saw the size of the article. Needless to say, this...

Now that “Learning Later, Living Greater” has been published and is available for purchase, I’ve become a full-time book promoter. This is definitely stepping outside my comfort zone. I’ve never been comfortable with “sales.” Years ago, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as a young wife and mother I sold “timesharing,” real estate. I got my real estate license because my...

Shortly after I moved to New Hampshire, my son Jon, who is a free-lance writer with six published books to his credit and more on the way, began talking about my writing a book. He felt that lifelong learning for older adults was an important topic, especially given the coming wave of Baby Boomers who were beginning to look at the quality of their life after work. I knew that the only...

Imagine my delight when I found out that the “Midwest Book Review,” a well-respected publication for librarians, published a review of “Learning Later, Living Greater.” Here’s what they have to say about my book. “Lifelong learning expert Nancy Merz Nordstrom and critically acclaimed writer Jon F. Merz present “Learning Later, Living Greater: The Secret for Making...

Over the course of my work with the Elderhostel Institute Network, I have “met,” usually through email, many interesting folks, and I’ve let them all know about my new book. One of them, Joan Fitting Scott, got back to me, offered congratulations, and we began an email correspondence about writing and marketing our own books. She has just written “Skinning the Cat: A Baby Boomer’s...

Over the summer of 2005 Jon and I worked on the manuscript, with me in New Hampshire and him in Massachusetts. I would pull all the content together and then do the rough drafts. He polished them up. Thank goodness for email. We did have to meet several times during those months though, which was great since I could visit with my grandsons too. The draft manuscript went in on time...

LEARNING LATER, LIVING GREATER: The Secret for Making the Most of Your After-50 Years. Lifelong Learning in Your Later Years… a Health Club for Your Body, Mind and Spirit! Welcome! My name is Nancy Merz Nordstrom and this blog is all about the benefits of incorporating lifelong learning into our After-50 years, and where that might lead. For instance I have become a new author, for...

Just before Thanksgiving I teamed up with Cindy Shea, the director of the lifelong learning...