EP #213: How to Reimagine Coffee and Connection in Midlife with Sharlene Wilder What You’ll Learn in this Episode about How to Reimagine Coffee and Connection in Midlife. How you can reimagine coffee and connection in midlife in the pandemic. Why it’s common to get comfortable living life without small adventures. How happiness clues...
Continue readingEP #65: How to Relocate with Confidence, Interview with Margaret Vandergriff
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Tips to avoid a disastrous relocation experience. How having an empty nest can open exciting doors to relocate. Why Internet searches can make moving to a new town more complicated. Why it’s important to really understand what you want when you think about moving. How it becomes difficult...
Continue readingEP #41: How to Build an Adventurous Attitude, Interview with Stacey Newman Weldon
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Build an Adventurous Attitude with Stacey Newman Weldon: Why it’s important to build an adventurous attitude in midlife. Why it’s important to take baby steps when it comes to trying new things. How you never know where you’re going to get insight that will change...
Continue readingVacations WITHOUT kids: How I forgot how to hold my husband’s hand and other midlife observations
It took years for us to finally take a vacation without kids. We loved to go camping in our pop-up tent trailer when the kids were little. My friends used to joke, “if the trailer is a rockin’, don’t come a knockin.” Truth be told, our trailer was stationary. No rockin’ going on. Just...
Continue readingUnsurpassed boredom—when the older siblings leave for college
Leaving for college isn’t the best day in the world for everyone. The day is fast approaching. In fact, it’s the day that my youngest child has been dreading. The day that both of his older brothers leave for college and he’s left alone….with us. Actually, I think the bigger issue is that he...
Continue readingHow to Survive a Midlife Crisis | Grand Canyon Adventure
Today’s blog I’m going to outline how to survive a midlife crisis – well, how I do it…… Adventurously! It’s so interesting to talk to people about midlife. Before you know it, you hear things about reading glasses, colonoscopies, weight gain, boredom at work and empty nest syndrome. Most aren’t comfortable admitting to something...
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