Selected passages from To the End of the World60 days alone through South America At seventy-five, I traveled alone through South America. Some people saw it as a crisis. For me, it was the opposite: proof that I was still hungry for life. From the glaciers of Patagonia to the Galapagos Islands, I encountered vast landscapes, unexpected kindness, exhaustion, uncertainty … [Read more...]
5 Signs Your World Is Quietly Getting Smaller After 50
A smaller life is not necessarily a worse life. Many people reach a stage when they genuinely want fewer obligations, less rushing, and more time for the people and activities that matter most. The problem begins when the change happens so gradually that you do not notice your world has become smaller until it no longer feels like the world you want. After 50, ordinary life … [Read more...]
The Beauty Found in Rewriting Life’s Script in My 50s
I always pegged myself as someone who was going to follow a perfectly scripted plan for my life. Oh, how wrong I was After graduating college with honors, I paid my dues in television news and ultimately landed my dream job as a morning anchor in my hometown of Denver. A few years later, my husband and I welcomed healthy boy-girl twins into our lives. I was often … [Read more...]
The Notion of Time Travel Has Always Fascinated Me
My appetite for reading about places where historic things happened, and then getting the chance to stand in those very places myself is insatiable. I’m always up for a good time slip, but I want to go really far back. I was into the Tudors long before Netflix existed, and I’ve been known to rabbit my way down any hole that brings me closer to William Shakespeare. I’d be … [Read more...]
How to Stop Waiting and Start Saying What You Feel
For most of my career, I was focused on the next goal, the next deal, the next milestone. I was good at achieving things. What I wasn't as good at was pausing long enough to tell the people who helped me get there what they actually meant to me. I assumed they knew. I told myself I'd say it eventually. And then one day I realized how close I'd come to never saying it at … [Read more...]