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• All I Want For Christmas December 24, 2014
  All I want for Christmas is YOU … to feel some joy! When you reflect on 2014, I hope it is with a sense of gratitude and fulfilment.  Even if you haven’t achieved your goals, even if things have gone wrong…there will be some parts of the year that stand out as positives.  It is easy ...
• How to Balance Work and Personal Life October 16, 2019
  You’ve got a lot on your plate. You are respected at work for your achievements. But you often feel overwhelmed, stressed, and may sometimes feel guilty about whether you give enough time to your family. When someone talks about having work-life balance, you laugh and say, “What’s that?” You’ve probably resigned yourself to thinking “this ...
• Caring for Aging Parents: How to Make Life Easier for Yourself and Your Parents April 12, 2015
  It often begins with the little things that are barely noticeable for a time. You find your mom or dad has trouble reading the label on their prescription medications or has a struggle trying to rise from a soft chair. They may develop a more shuffling gait to accommodate stiff joints that refuse to move ...
• Caring for Older Parents: 5 Tips for Balancing Decision-Making and Keeping Sibling Relationships Intact February 25, 2015
    Elder care is growing concern around the world, with many older people needing assistance to live their lives with dignity. With more and more people living well into their eighties and nineties, those well past middle age will have to endure the emotionally wrenching experience of making tough decisions about elderly parent care. It’s at ...
• Lightening the load when you’re moving house June 28, 2019
  Changing address can mean changing lifestyles, too—adapting to new neighbors and switching your local coffee shop and bar. It can also mean a change in how you view your possessions. Moving house is the perfect time to lighten the load both literally and figuratively. Here are some ways to make the process of moving house ...
• Volunteering in Retirement: 4 Great Community-Building Options for Boomers November 15, 2016
  While many seek alternative careers after they’ve retired, volunteering, whether as a part-time venture or a full-time gig, is a popular choice among boomers. And with good reason. Having worked hard to support yourself and your family throughout your career, you finally have the time to lend a helping hand to others, giving you a ...
• The Big Send Off: Funeral Traditions March 14, 2019
  Death and funeral traditions differ throughout the world. Ideally they should reflect the life of the deceased. This post reflects on personal experience of funeral traditions.
• 7 Ways To Know You Need A Christmas Holiday December 23, 2014
  Christmas hit me early this year. Usually I am a fairly self-motivated person. I don’t need someone else to organise me, and I work perfectly happily setting my own agenda and following it. That’s how it usually is. Then December hit! I don’t know if it was that I had to get ready for an early Christmas ...
• Peppa Pig Live A Date With My Granddaughter September 26, 2016
  I am thrilled to have booked tickets to a concert that I really want to go to. No, it’s not Sting and Paul Simon. I really really wanted to go to that but my plans of a weekend with friends at the Pokolbin concert in a vineyard have fallen through.  No, this concert is about creating ...
• 50 Year School Reunion December 5, 2018
  Does the thought of a school reunion leave you feeling like hiding in a cupboard, never to reappear until the reunion is over? Or would you love to catch up with people who you knew during your school days? A school reunion, at any stage of life, can bring up long-forgotten memories, emotions and insecurities.  They ...
• Flexible Job for Baby Boomers – How to Enjoy a Retirement Vibe Without Retiring March 13, 2019
   beBaby Boomers – How to Enjoy a Retirement Vibe Without Retiring My 79-year-old widowed mother has a part-time job aiding elderly people in their homes. I used to be amused by saying that; I mean, 79 is elderly, isn’t it? The fact is, her paid work is a mere four hours a week, a small piece of ...
• 5 Moving Tips When Downsizing Your Home May 20, 2019
  Moving is never easy, but for baby boomers heading into the next phase of life it can come with all sorts of additional physical, mental and emotional complications. If you’re transitioning from the home where you raised your kids to a smaller place that’s easier to maintain, you must pour through decades of memories to ...
• Would You Like A New Pet for the New Year? December 27, 2014
  Every year many people are given new pets, particularly puppies and kittens, as Christmas gifts.  Some of those animals are very fortunate and go into homes where they become part of the family.  Others are not so lucky. Many new pets are taken to animal shelters After the holiday period each year animal shelters get very busy. ...
• Coping With The Death Of Your Parents June 27, 2014
  How Have You Coped With The Death Of Your Parents? It doesn’t matter how old you are, or how emotionally mature, when a parent dies it has a huge impact on your life. I recall sitting at my mother’s funeral, surrounded by a loving husband and children as well as wonderful extended family, feeling bereft. My mother ...