“For age is opportunity no less / Than you itself, though in another dress,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow observed. “And as the evening twilight fades away / The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” He speaks clearly of the mystery of the later years of life,...

One of the obstacles to living an exciting life in our later years is that we become so sure we’re losing something and so unaware of what we’re gaining. Youth is a cauldron of hot issues – career and excitement, dating and mating, succeeding and failing. Middle age...

Swiss philosopher Henri Frederic Amiel stated, “To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” Life changes come so commonly with the later years of life whether we want them to or not. We find...