This quarter’s Act 3 LIFEies deals with terminal illness and living your life through the finish line.  Jonathan Clements was a WSJ personal-finance columnist beginning

This quarter, I wanted to share some simple rules we all should consider incorporating into our lives from people who have lived to 100 or

Below is a wonderful blog from Farnam Street summarizing Henry Miller’s book, On Turning Eighty. Published in 1972, only 200 copies were printed, but the

I found an inspiring story that I just want to share with my Act 3 Chimera group.  As you may know, I am a huge

Most of the members of this Chimera group have figured out their lives already…which is why I met with you :).   However, I like to

This quarter’s Act 3 Chimera comes from a lesson I learned the hard way at age 53 and have relearned as friends pass without being

For this quarter’s email, I want to share an article from the WSJ written at the end of 2023.  The article profiles the lives of

My goal in sending you these articles is to make you think (as they all make me think) —  hopefully, they make you think enough

I had the pleasure of having an Act 3 Chimera meeting with Harvey Mackay a year or two ago.  He’s still kicking ass, traveling the

In my late 20s through my 30s, I became a pretty competitive long-distance runner.  During that time, I ran over 60 marathons and ultramarathons.  Then I

Over the past few years sending this quarterly email to my Chimera group, I have sent some articles about older people doing amazing things (Life

After 120 Chimera (Act 3) meetings, I am constantly asked what my biggest takeaways are from all the lunches/breakfasts/meetings.  Below is an article that sums

As the members of my Chimera group continue to age, the inevitable question arises:  What do we do to make our future bigger than our

Can you believe 90 days have come and gone?  Time for a new Chimera thought from me (or really from you, the group I am

My mom and dad did not tell us a lot of family stories growing up and that is a disappointment for me.  They were busy

I ran over 60 marathons in my running career. It took me 17 marathons to finally break 3 hours which was a huge win for

I wanted to share this great article below from the WSJ on retirement and what NOT to do.  Most of you have already figured these

I started my Chimera meetings so that I wouldn’t dread the passing of time, but find things to look forward to as each year and

Below is a great article about a 97-year-old Lobsterman, John Olson.     Lobstering is considered one of the most dangerous professions in the US (per the

Over the past few years I have become increasingly interested in the Stoics.  I have read a number of books, been in 3 study groups

This is my third edition of Act 3 LIFEies. In the first one I wrote about not retiring, and the second one was about slowing

In this second edition of Act 3 LIFEies, I thought I would go 180 degrees from the first (The Third Act).   In remarkably fast time,

Some of you, I have seen recently – others, it might have been over a year or longer.  Hopefully, when you saw the subject line