I'm a veteran health and lifestyle journalist. After three decades as a USA Today staffer and contributor focused on personal health and medicine, I"m now a freelancer, working for clients including AARP, Bottom Line Health, the BMJ and Captrust's VESTED magazine.
Life in the 2020s has been rough, with waves of COVID-19 and other world-disrupting crises coming one after another. We all could use a little cheer right now. Luckily, daily opportunities for joy are there for the taking, experts in the art of happier living say.
While many American retirees need to scrimp in order to keep paying their bills, many others have a nicer problem, financial researchers say. If these well-funded retirees don’t start spending more of what they have, they may die with their nest eggs largely intact or expanded—even if they never consciously decided to do so.
It is true that many people in midlife - roughly defined as ages 40 to 60 or so - are stressed out. But not everyone is in crisis. And crisis sometimes brings positive change.
The truth about greener living: “Almost everything you do to improve your environmental impact improves your own life.”