Many of us, when faced with challenge and change, turn to our religious or spiritual community for support. But what happens when, for circumstances beyond your control, you can't physically make it to the pew to hear the uplifting sermon or get to the meditation hall for a comforting prayer?...

It's first thing in the morning and I'm, once again, at the computer instead of meditating on the bank of the river that runs past our house.

We bought the house because it was my husband's and my dream of how we wanted to use the freedom of aging...

By the very dint of her fame, Barbara Walters' announcement that she is retiring after 37 years with ABC would always have made headline news. But the true importance of the story is hidden in this quote from the 83-year-old media queen on a May 14th ABC blog: "I want...

I used to be "mommy." Now I'm not. While my adult children love me dearly, I am clearly something other than the identity that defined me over much of the past six decades.

But that's not all. I also used to be "Carol Orsborn." Now I'm not that either....

Recently, I watched a Gen X author on TV take credit for inventing the notion of life balance. She proclaimed superiority over Baby Boomers, whom she described as relentlessly driven to succeed at all costs.

It's a good story. Except it's not true. I know because I was there, 27...

Do you imagine yourself at some point in the future radically changed in nature? For instance, you have always been a risk-taker, someone who lives life large but always assumed that by the time you hit 65, you'd be careful and serene? There's nothing wrong with changing our minds about...

Twenty-five years ago, when I was in my late 30s, "The New York Times" wrote an article about the organization I founded. Superwomen's Anonymous was a club for baby boomer women who were tired of trying to have, do and be it all. Attracting tens of thousands of equally exhausted...

Up until a couple of weeks ago, I was a boomer blogging on my own blog, writing for free to an audience of what is considered to be pretty good numbers in the boomer blogosphere: 200 or so honest-to-God subscribers.

I wasn't sure why my numbers had stalled at 200...

By the time I hit midlife, I was already well over positive thinking. By then, having gone through one life-threatening disease, a couple of down-sizings and the deaths of several family members, I no longer believed that it was positive affirmations, alone, that would guarantee me the experience of fulfillment...

Every month, I get a news digest from a fellow boomer expert about the state of our generation. This last stack was particularly gloomy.

• According to a new national election survey conducted by AARP, pre-retirement baby boomers ages 50-64 are more deeply anxious about the economy...

The stock market went up today, or down. But besides feeling happy or sad for the world, I am relieved personally to have made peace with the Dow.

Call it Dow or Tao, each calls for at least a certain level of detachment. It takes some kind of faith,...

In the late 1980s, I had a breakthrough realization about life balance that resulted in my first books, "Enough is Enough" and "Inner Excellence." In brief, I was among a vanguard of corporate visionaries who believed that human beings deserve at least as much downtime for maintenance as our machines....

When you are in the turbulent middle years of life, the promise of serenity fills you with hope. Somewhere down the road, there will be peace and quiet. Your life will be orderly and things will make sense.

Now that I've lived long enough to get beyond the epicenter of...

With a recent issue of AARP The Magazine featuring Diane Keaton over the headline "How She Stays Forever Young," the message surrounding aging is emblazoned on our consciousness: Young is good, old is bad.

When it comes to ageism, do baby boomers really need a new consciousness movement? Haven't...

In the fairytale of the American storyline, good-intentioned people who put themselves into play have a crack at finding what really matters. In the case of the ABC TV show The Bachelor, it's about following your heart to find love. In the case of politics, it's about taking a stand...

As a baby boomer demographic expert, I know the statistics. You name it. Boomers aren't ready for it. For years, we have been in denial about aging. And who wouldn't be? Expecting to reap the rewards of the longevity bonus, this is a generation that has had better health, education...

Baby Boomers are old enough to remember a time in our lives when everybody we knew "Liked Ike." At least, I thought we all did. That was around the same time the first television sets were trickling into Chicago, so the ethos of a nation was more defined by the...

I am here to declare the death of serene old age. My proof: Grammys 2012. From McCartney to Raitt, from the Beach Boys to Springsteen. And if that's not enough, we've got Madonna at the Super Bowl and Billy Crystal at the Oscars. And don't forget Joan Rivers, at the...

When I was in my thirties and forties, making big bucks, taking on debt and not even close to calling the shots in either my personal or professional life, I thought coupons were beneath me. But even then, I didn't scream at dollars off the way J.C. Penney's new advertising...

Those of us who are 50-plus identified way too closely with what has now become known as Meryl Streep's "senior moment." To a person, we squirmed uncomfortably when Meryl Streep forgot her glasses on the way to the podium of the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Only when she bravely...