Now that you’re old, cut yourself some slack, would you?Let yourself off the hook.Give yourself a break.You don’t have to do it all anymore. Take it easy for a change.It’s OK with the rest of...

Regrets are particularly poignant for the old, those of us who have used up most of the chances we’ll ever get and are left to make peace with our failed choices. Most things distance themselves...

Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it. Telling the truth is as natural to them now as when they were...

Such an incredible, stupefying realization: I am not, indeed, the center of the universe.Not! Not! Not!And the overwhelming gratitude, the flooding relief that comes from finally being able to give myself the permission to lay...

When was the last time someone was so overjoyed to see you, so brimming with love and affection that they literally ran to greet you? A dog will do that for you–ten, twenty, thirty times...

I woke up this morning with the words clomping around in my head: ‘Truth does not become wisdom until the exact moment you’re ready for it. No one can force it on you, even though...

In the 1991 movie, City Slickers, Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some profoundly simple advice. When Crystal asks him the secret of life, Palance holds up a forefinger, answers with a single word: “One.”Choose one...

I was always a stranger at home, in all the places I ever lived.

In the 1991 movie City Slickers, Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some profoundly simple advice. When Crystal asks him the secret of life, Palance holds up a forefinger, answers with a single word: “One.”Choose one...

Think back. How many of your sweetest dreams, your greatest hopes, your most cherished desires have come true?On the other hand, how much of what you didn’t really care about wound up happening anyway?What you...

Why can’t we say ‘When!’ about money the way we say ‘When!’ about coffee?

People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.

Vanishing cream for the mind, English writer Jeremiah Creedon calls it.It’s beholding the mote in your brother’s eye, says the Bible, while disregarding the beam in your own.Denial is refusing to listen to the voice...

At the beach, fifty years later, the old man understands finally that much of what he disavowed in himself before recognizing its irretrievable value, most of the heartache he caused himself and those who chose...