The Memoir You Keep Postponing — and Why It Can’t Wait
A personal and research-backed conversation about why writing your memoir in retirement isn’t vanity — it’s one of the most meaningful creative acts of your life.
Creative Pursuits
The Engineer in the Kitchen
Bill Leighty shares why he cooks dinner for his wife every night — and why precision, not flair, can be its own form of creative devotion.
Step It Up: Why Dancing Is One of the Best Things Senior Men Can Do
You might arrive at this topic through a crossword puzzle, but you’ll leave it thinking seriously about dance. For senior men, dancing — whether line dancing, ballroom, or swing — is one of the most complete activities available: it’s physical
Grow Something: The Real Health Benefits of Gardening for Senior Men
There’s a reason so many men find their way to a garden in retirement. Gardening is physical without being punishing, creative without requiring talent, and solitary without being lonely. It gets you outside, gives you something to tend, and produces
Something Worth Listening To: The Best Podcasts for Senior Men
There has never been a better time to be a podcast listener — and senior men are discovering this in large numbers. Whether you’re walking the neighborhood, doing the dishes, or just settling into a chair after lunch, a great
Finally Time to Read: Must-Read Books for Senior Men
Reading is one of the great pleasures of a slower-paced life — and retirement finally gives you the time to do it seriously. But with thousands of books available, where do you start? In this episode, we make the case
Beyond Golf and Gardening: 10 Unusual Hobbies Senior Men Are Discovering
If your idea of retirement hobbies starts and ends with golf or woodworking, this episode is going to surprise you. There’s a whole world of unusual, unexpected, and genuinely fun hobbies that senior men are discovering in their later years
It’s Never Too Late: Why Senior Men Should Start Music Lessons Now
The idea that learning an instrument is something you have to do as a child is simply wrong. The aging brain is more capable of musical learning than most people believe — and the benefits of taking lessons in your
Raise Your Voice: The Surprising Benefits of Joining a Senior Choir or Ensemble
Most men who sing in the shower never consider singing anywhere else. But joining a senior choir, a community band, or a small ensemble might be one of the best decisions a retired man can make — for his brain,
The World Through Your Lens: Photography as a Creative Pursuit for Older Men
Photography is one of the most accessible creative hobbies a senior man can take up — and one of the most rewarding. It gets you outside, it sharpens your eye for the world around you, and it produces something tangible
Back to the Workbench: Rediscovering Creative Crafts in Retirement
For a lot of senior men, there’s a craft somewhere in the past — woodworking in the garage, pottery on weekends, painting before the kids came along — that got set aside during the busy decades and never quite came
Pick Up a Brush: Why Art Activities Are Made for Senior Men
You don’t have to have painted anything since high school to pick up a brush now. For senior men, art activities — whether watercolor, sketching, pottery, collage, or even digital art — offer something genuinely hard to find elsewhere: a