Experience 50 listeners regularly ask me which podcasts I listen to when I’m not recording my own. Okay. Sharing my podcast playlist feels a bit like telling you to look in my purse. I can’t explain how everything got in there and I may feel some shame. Loser lottery tickets,…
Happy knows happy at 50. Just because your hair is thinning, your son is flunking out of college and you can’t seem to muster the courage to take your mother’s car keys away, you could still be happy. Yes, really. It does seem that with age the sweet get sweeter…
This column appeared in the January 12, 2019 edition of Northern Express. Each of us has a role to play in keeping young professionals in our region. In my case, it’s a matter of returning a favor granted to me when I was a young professional. There is a new…
Best Experience 50 Lyrics EVER Talking Heads’ Once in a Lifetime puzzled us 35 years ago, but now it makes perfect sense. I just had to get old enough to understand! And you may find yourself Living in a shotgun shackAnd you may find yourself In another part of the worldAnd you…
Are we growing or aging in our 50s? Am I growing? Certainly. When we were younger, we focused on the next achievement, and the next, and the next. That doesn’t seem as important to me now at 55. Or maybe the types of achievements have changed from the more obvious…
Originally published in Northern Express BY MARY KEYES ROGERS | NOV. 17, 2018 When it came to my attention that my deadline for this column would coincide with the midterm elections, I figured my rage or joy would fuel my words. Hardly. Election day came, and then it went. Meh. Some wins,…
So, I have this little addiction to podcasting. You may drink too much, shop too much, or gamble too much. I podcast. It could be worse, I know. If I could choose my addiction, it would be shopping because the day after a shopping binge I could take everything back…