I walked to the lighthouse on my lunch hour today.  One of the very best things about working in an office only five blocks from the Lake Michigan shore is...I'm only five blocks from the shore.  My own perspective is colored by growing up...

Let me be the first to admit … I don't look forward to going to the gym. I've heard stories of people who really thrive on the adrenaline and endorphin rush -- who can't wait to hit the treadmill, or the free weights. In fact, you'll meet plenty of...

Thursday, October 23, 2008 Keep Pluggin' This week has been hectic, but time out for thinking is always important. Sometimes these times are only short moments of standing quietly outside and just listening, others may be alone in my room with my...

Today I have help coming to organize my office! I've reorganized it about six times and I can no longer do this on my own. Having a home office means the overall house needs to be presentable. My office is in the back of the house. I have the type of...

You have been dreaming and planning for your retirement years all your life, and now that you are close to realizing that dream and fulfilling those plans, you are starting to wonder if now is the time to make that final decision. But how do you...

    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...

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...

Someone on another site asked me how I found Terry.  It's harder, it seems, when we're older, and she was unsure of how to start. Terry and I met online.  I know, a lot of people still think online dating is dangerous, desperate, and maybe even...

My mother-in-law has Alzheimer’s.  Alzheimer's is a disease that destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies or social life. Alzheimer’s...

On this week's Growing Bolder Radio Show, Marc and Bill interviewed the great-great-granddaughter of etiquette queen Emily Post. Anna Post is pretty hip and has a great new book about wedding etiquette. She's about 18 months too late for my own nuptials...

I saw a 109-year-old woman brought back to life. It was stunning. Humbling. I’m still trying to process it all. I’ll tell you about it in a moment. But first, a little background. Ruth1898 is not only the oldest member of our growing bolder...

Well, it's that time of the year again.  Every year I take an extended motorcycle ride to somewhere in North America.  This year I decided to ride the pacific coast highway from Vancouver B.C. to Mexico.  This would be a fantastic ride...

There's an interesting change underway in the mainstream news media. For years, the 50+ market has been all but ignored. Now, news and stories about you are beginning to pop up everywhere but news and stories for you are still few and far between. What's...

Have you read through the Thought Leaders column on the GB Home Page? The number of responses to our question was overwhelming. The answers are as diverse as the backgrounds of the people themselves. Be sure to read through them. But don’t forget about...

Hey GrowingBolder.com Members! We're getting some great blogs from some of you! For those of you still standing on the cyber-sidelines, jump on into the game! A blog is short for a Web log. Blogs can be as short or as long as you want them to be and...

It was artist Andy Warhol who said "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." That was before reality TV. Now it seems like we'll all have our own show. What else can explain 20-year-old Brooke Hogan? Brooke is the no-talent,...

RADICAL RIGHTSIZING FOR TOYS Now here’s a novel idea: don’t give potentially dangerous toys for Christmas. "Why I'd NEVER do that!" you say? Since some 80-90% of all toys come from China—this isn't going to be as easy as you think....

    I have had good storytellers, great conversationalists and naturally funny people tell me that they could never be a writer.  “And, why is that?” I ask.   “I'm not good enough,” is the usual...

After Rudy Guiliani cheated on his wife and they divorced, she wrote a best-selling book titled My Boyfriend’s Back.  I don’t mean to be a copycat, but I’m kind of, sort of, writing the same book. Mine is titled My Boyfriend’s...

Each year I go on a motorcycle adventure to somewhere on the North American Continent. I don't travel the main roads, but opt for the back roads and even dirt roads that criss-cross throughout our great country. This year my destination was Eastern...

Saturday, April 28, 2007 Roadie Report 25- Jim McGuinn with Bobby Darin, Art & Paul, Judy Collins, Dion and John Sebastian in Greenwich Village in 1963 by Camilla McGuinn It was a summer’s morning in 1963 when Jim McGuinn stood looking up at the...

Follow your bliss! At age 61, I never thought I’d be living these famous words by Joseph Campbell. But when I realize that I’m doing the work I love from my home in the hills above a beautiful lake in New Hampshire, and that I’m sharing my life...

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. Apparently, there's not a lot of hand clapping going on. Have you been in a bookstore lately? The happiness industry is smiling from ear to ear. There's Stumbling on Happiness, The Secrets of Happiness, In...

CAUTION: GB MEMBER VIDEO AHEAD...KEEP READING ! ! ! What do you get when you mix the following elements: An “amazing” sense of adventure, a 13 page application form, a video camera and my sister, whom I’ve known for 36 years? It’s quite...