As we in the UK enter our second lockdown, I am revisiting some of the coping strategies I developed during the first lockdown. In addition to cooking more and doing micro workouts, I’ve returned to my daily walks with a vengeance.
Even if you’re not currently in lockdown, here are 5 reasons to keep walking as you age:...
“You’re thin, but you’re flabby.”
So spoke my 16 year-old daughter when we went on a beach vacation this summer.
She was referring particularly to my arms. After years of running, my legs are decently toned. But even after I replaced running with swimming several years back, my arms still look like some sort of hastily improvised, white surrender flag: long sticks with loose marshmallow-like blobs of flesh swinging off them....
The Artist's Way inspired me. I started to create and image file. I feel that in the three years since I made it, I've moved forward on all five of the dreams captured in those images. It's still a work in progress, but.......
From time to time, I enjoy sharing the wonderful peculiarities of British English I encounter during everyday life over here in the U.K. A few years back, IÂ sin...
In the wake of my mother’s death, I’ve been feeling sad lately. For many years of my life, I pushed sad feelings away whenever they arose. I felt that if I just...
I’ve been listening to Billy Joel again. Yes, I say that loudly, proudly and unabashedly. If you grew up in the 1970s, it’s pretty impossible *not* to be in love with Billy Joel. When “The Stranger” was released in 1977, it was all anyone listened to for several years.
My husband gets this. He’s the one who got me started on my new Billy Joel kick. He recently came across a series of videos of Billy performing his songs before a live audience. As Billy performs each song,...
As we enter a third month of global lockdown, I’ve noticed that people handle this new normal of forced solitude differently. Some get emotional. Some withdraw ...
If you haven't read Brene Brown's Bestseller put it on your list. My friend gave me Daring Greatly with the subtitle “How the courage to be vulnerable can transform the way we live, love, parent, and lead.” I read it and Wow....this is what I learned....
One of the many things I’m grateful for in the wake of the Corona virus are my multiple and varied networks. On the personal end of things, I’m reconnecting wi...
In the wake of the outbreak of the Corona virus, there’s been much speculation on how it may affect the global economy. Former Economic Council Chair...
I went home to visit my mother recently in New Jersey. She’s 88 and lives in one of those vast, American, multiplex retirement communities where they...
we enter the holiday season, a lot of us experience gift fatigue. Particularly for those people we buy presents for year in and year out, we are utterly stymied and in want of fresh ideas. More to the point, many of us are broke and/or beginning to sour on the idea of gifts altogether. ...
Irreverent an unpopular but kinda funny...have laugh! "Pets are so much work: They need food. They need exercise. They require medical attention. A friend's cat is currently on anti-stress medication."...
On occasional Wednesdays, I offer tips for adulthood.
I was talking to my son on the phone yesterday. He's at college in the U.S. - ( we live in the UK) - a...
In a recent, Marie Kondo-inspired frenzy to declutter our home, my husband’s immediate instinct was to throw the phone book out. But then who remembers phone books?...
On the off-chance that you’ve had these dreams – or similar – I present them here so that we can all get a better handle on our collective demons:...
My husband is a gadget freak. He loves coming home with all manner of things that ostensibly serve to make life easier. Sometimes they do and sometimes they do...
I'm a big fan of taking classes in adulthood. Since moving to London twelve years ago, I've taken classes in everything from public speaking to improvisation to how to write a business plan. ...
I've been living abroad for twelve and a half years. One of the things I've noticed is how frugally our family lives in London compared to when we lived in the...
Delia Lloyd is an American writer and communications consultant based in London. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and The BBC World Service. She blogs about adulthood at realdelia.com and is a visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. Follow her on Twitter @realdelia.
