The Challenges for Women in the Workplace Today
An ocean separates Chupi Sweetman-Durney, who lives in Dublin, and Lea Giovanniello of Vienna, Va., and they have never met. Yet their workplace experiences and career paths — at a time when women still struggle with both — are a testament to what’s possible. Here are their stories. Chupi Sweetman-Durney ran away from home when […]
Kerry’s New York Times Column: Over 50 and Back in College
A MONTH before turning 60, Helen White received her master’s degree in sport management at George Washington University, and now teaches basketball and pickleball and organizes recreational programs and tournaments for older adults throughout the Washington area. “I wanted to change the stereotype of older adults by getting them to move and enjoy the power […]
Kerry’s New York Times Column: Rotary and Peace Corps Find Relevance With Retirees
THREE years ago, Douglas Crumley sold his financial planning practice in Fair Oaks, Calif., and he and his wife, Ann, left the country. “The intention was to live in Ecuador and travel through South America doing the retirement thing,” he said. “Well, I became absolutely bored. I don’t speak Spanish well enough to assimilate and […]
The New York Times: Older Job Seekers Find Ways to Avoid Age Bias
JAMES S. KUNEN, 66, teaches English as a second language at the Center for Immigrant Education and Training at LaGuardia Community College in Queens. When he was let go as the director of corporate communications at Time Warner during a round of layoffs, Mr. Kunen confronted the core questions: What is it he could do? […]
The New York Times: Getting a Senior Discount? Here’s How to Give It Away
THREE dollars can go a long way. Moviegoers 65 and older who bought tickets at the Bainbridge Cinemas or the Bainbridge Performing Arts center in Bainbridge Island, Wash., could pay full price for their ticket and have the $3 senior discount redirected to a local charity that provides child care to low-income families. The program, […]
The New York Times: Making a Name on Horseback
Jessica Springsteen’s beaming smile said it all. The 22-year-old daughter of Bruce Springsteen had just won the Anglesea Stakes aboard her horse Davendy S at the Dublin Horse Show in August, against a field of 52 international competitors. Music blasted through the RDS Arena in Ballsbridge, Ireland, and the horse-crazy crowd cheered loudly. Her father and […]
The New York Times: Column: Finding an Identity Beyond the Workplace
WHEN Guy Johnson retired from his tax management position at Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer products companies, he was sure that he was prepared. But he was fooling himself. “I lost myself when my wife, Barbara, and I moved to Sarasota, Fla., from Bergen County, N.J.,” Mr. Johnson said. “I planned my retirement […]
The New York Times Column: Taxes and More When Moving in Retirement
Models of pre-retirement planning, Don and Reina Weiner bought an acre of land almost a decade ago in the Woodlands of Chapel Hill, a mixed-age community in North Carolina. The couple, living in Leesburg, Va., at the time, had visited several towns around the country in their hunt to find a place to live when […]
An Aging Population Also Poses Opportunities for Retirement Careers
A SCENT of sage hovers in the air. The soothing, ambient strands of New Age music fill the warm room. Carefully, the 80-year-old woman climbs aboard the heated massage table for her “rub down,” as she calls it. She has arrived at her regular appointment with Christine Henck, 62, a licensed massage therapist who runs […]
For Many Older Americans, an Entrepreneurial Path
When Marilyn Arnold was 9 years old, her mother, a skilled seamstress, patiently taught her to sew on a vintage Singer treadle sewing machine. As her feet pumped away at the machine in her family’s farmhouse near Paris, Mo., she was smitten. “I was in love with sewing, even when I stuck my finger and […]
