Meeting the Muse after Midlife is out now on Amazon or at your bookshop! 

Francesca Aniballi: Fairy tales aren’t just for kids

What if fairy tales could help us, as adults, to open our imaginations, re-enchant our worlds, and support our personal transformation.  In the hands of Francesca Aniballi, they can. Francesca Aniballi, PhD, uses fairy tales as a transformative tool for adults. She combines her knowledge of expressive arts, literature, myth, and Celtic culture, to offer […]

Sally Fox: Following a Creative Call After Midlife

What if your years after 50 offered creative possibilities that you never touched when you were younger? Author Sally Jean Fox made it her quest to discover what could bring heart and meaning to the second half of her life. She chronicles her story in her new memoir Meeting the Muse After Midlife: A Journey […]

Merle Saferstein: Writing and Living Your Legacy

Have you thought about writing your legacy, capturing thoughts and events that might be only for your eyes—but from which you might offer lessons to others? For 48 years, Merle Saferstein journaled, amassing a collection of 380 journals. From there she distilled key passages into two books Living and Leaving My Legacy Vols. 1 & […]

Mik Kuhlman: The Actor as Activist

Mik Kuhlman is an actor, physical theatre comedian, performance artist, theatre-maker, and teacher who has worked and taught globally. Building on her twenty-five years of experience with original ensemble and solo theatre, she recently created a stunning outdoor performance and celebration of our connection with nature called, “The Standing Nation.”  Merging science and feminist inspiration, […]

Gretchen Staebler: Walking your mother home

Gretchen Staebler is an award-winning author and family caregiver ally in the Pacific Northwest who wrote a moving memoir about returning to her childhood home to care for her mother. It’s a candid, complex, well-crafted story that will be useful to anyone faced with providing end-of-life care or support to a family member. In this […]

Priscilla Long: Creating at Any Age

Priscilla Long is a well-known Seattle-based writer of science, poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and history, who, in anticipation of turning 80, decided to research the path of world-class later-in-life creatives. What she discovered became a trove of inspiration that she shares in her book Dancing with the Muse in Old Age. It’s a book about […]

Dana Lynne Andersen: The power of transformative arts

Dana Lynne Andersen is a multimedia artist, writer, playwright, and teacher who has taught and exhibited on three continents. She is the founder of the Awakening Arts Academy, with programs in Assisi, Italy, Nevada City, California, and online. In this conversation, we explore the nature of the Transformative Arts Certification Program she offers—why it is so […]

Suzanne Anderson: The transformational path of grief

    When her beloved husband took his life, and with it her life as she knew it, Suzanne Anderson faced a choice: would she be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? I talk to Suzanne about her new book, You Make Your Path By Walking. Part memoir, part guidebook, it’s an […]

Diana Place—Creating a new story in the 3rd Act of life

Executive and entrepreneur turned community builder and advocate for women in the 3rd act of life, Diana Place shares wisdom from her journey and the inspiration for the online 333 Collective she created. After dancing “on the edge of my passions” throughout her career, the coincidence of three “lightening strike” experiences in 2018—a cancer diagnosis, […]

Debbie Weiss: Love, loss. and starting over after 50

  When Debbie Weiss lost her husband of 30 years before she was 50, she learned life lessons that she has shared through her recent memoir Available As Is: A Midlife Widow’s Search for Love.  Debbie’s writing has been published in The New York Times “Modern Love” column, Huff Po, Woman’s Day and Reader’s Digest among other publications. A former […]

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