Daily Archives: October 14, 2014


What a Teen Can Learn from a Bunch of 50-Year Olds

Fifty may be the new forty, but it still feels suddenly different—ok, old— to many of us. I’m always wary of sweeping generalizations, but judging from conversations among my peers at a gym in West Hartford Center, many of us fifty-somethings talk a lot about having a significantly different definition of happiness than we did when we were in our late teens and twenties. The interesting thing about this group is that it’s not really a group—just an eclectic assortment of individuals whose backgrounds cut across social, ethnic, racial, and religious lines, who happen to share some level of commitment […]