To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.