I write about boomers and aging and the 50+ demographic for national print and online venues. For 2.5 years, I wrote a weekly blog for AARP. I also write for, as well as consult to, companies focusing on the senior space. I sit on the ASJA Board of Directors.
Subjects
General
Specialties
Aging and Baby Boomers. 50+ housing (aging in place, senior living communities, niche communities), family caregiving, technology, retirement, boomer lifestyle
Skills
- Blog posts
- Books
- Content marketing
- Essays
- Feature writing
- Profiles
- Q&A
- Web copy
- Editing
Writing Credits
The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Forbes, AARP the Magazine, The AARP Bulletin, AARP.org, PBS Next Avenue, the Los Angeles Times, Parade Magazine, USA Today, Advertising Age, Johnson & Johnson online site, AARP/United Healthcare, Intel-GE Care Innovations,
Transamerica’s Center for Retirement, Yale School of Medicine, Columbia Pictures, Harvard University publications, MetLife, Duke Medical School, USC’s school of gerontology, Genworth Financial, New York Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal
Book Credits
- Children in the Crossfire–author
- What Every Woman Needs to Know About Divorce and Custody: How to Keep the Kids, the Cash and Your Sanity–co-author
- Not Your Mother’s Retirement–contributor
- 80 Things ttot Do When You Turn 80–contributor
- AARP’s Where WWe Live: Communities for All Ages–contributtoro to 2017 and 2018 editions
Awards, Honors, Appointments
- Senior Fellow in Social Innovation at Babson College
- New York Times Foundation Fellowship on Aging (Age Boom Academy)
- MetLife Foundation Fellowship on Aging (a Gerontological Society of America initiative)
- Winner of min Award for Single Article-Consumer category for Working Mother story
- Winner of a National Mature Media Award
- Co-producer for segment on ABC’s “20/20” that was nominated for an Emmy Award
- Community Service Award from the Brookline Community Aging Network for Outstanding Reporting on Aging
- Named one of the 17 best twitter accounts by flexjobs.com
- Speaker at the national AARP conference, Harvard Business School, Babson College, Aging2.0 and What’s Next Boomer Summit
- My book, Not Your Mother’s Retirement, was nominated for Best Retirement Book of 2017
- Weekly family caregiving blog for AARP (2.5 years)
