Robservations
Articles and essays exploring what it means to change and grow in your second half, and find greater clarity, freedom and purpose.
Your Value Was Never in Your To-do List
A good day used to mean one thing: how much I got through. Then the job, the marriage, and the faith community that gave me that scorecard all fell away. This post is about what's left when productivity stops being the measure of a worthwhile life.
How to Study Later in Life
At 60, I started a university psychology degree and graduated four years later with an 86.5% average — a world away from studying at 21. Why age was never really the obstacle.
Letting Go Isn’t Giving Up
Packing one bag for a ten-week solo trip looked like falling apart. It felt like clearing space. This post is about what it costs to keep maintaining a life that no longer fits — and why letting go often makes room for what's next.
Your Scars Are Your Qualifications
I have a psychology degree, earned in my sixties. But most of what I know came from walking away from a 35-year faith community, a marriage ending, and a partner's cancer diagnosis. Lived scars, not theory, are what someone else actually needs from you.