RICH AND THIN BY TUESDAY
Fresh Fantasies for Your Future

When I turned 40 I heard something wonderful that changed my whole decade. It was during a conference session in Boston that the speaker referred to research done by Ken Dychtwald for the book AGE WAVE. "When people in their nineties are asked their favorite decade, they gave an unexpected reply. They answered that their best decade had been 50-65. (at 90 you get a 15-year decade!)"

So all my 40's I looked forward to a golden decade ahead. Now that it has arrived, this time is even better than I had hoped. It's like I woke up one day and saw a headline: "They had a contest to determine the richest techno-tycoon and the slenderest size-one model…and you didn't win." And, instead of being upset, I felt enormously free!

Little by little I released from seeking "magic-happy-pill" instant solutions to enjoying a wiser wealth, and I saw people all around doing the same. Like the woman who found the secret meaning of her crimson fingernails, like the man who's wife offered him "romance in a jar," like the woman who fell in love with singing jazz to overcome a giant grief, like the man who crossed Tennessee by horse and buggy to "see one state slowly."

In this golden time we get to laugh more freely, love more fully and even find the depth and the height hidden in dark times. I hope you will enjoy some of the voices and choices of people inventing this vibrant new version of the fifties. Find these creative variations in the people around you and in the future offerings in this section.