The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show. I feel so . . .” She searched for the word. “So whole when I’m there.” Once started, the thoughts spilled. “I didn’t plan...

We’d incorporated Asia into our bones – its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.

America isn’t breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn’t dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn’t triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren’t at each other’s throats. They’re living more interdependently...

The good thing about being old is not being young.

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring … Wow, it’s good to be old!

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Never judge a woman by her age.