Why I Wrote Thriving After Sixty
I didn't set out to write a book. I set out to answer a question that kept following me around. Why does ageing often sound like decline when many I know in their sixties and beyond are thriving? Somewhere along the way, "getting older" became shorthand for "getting smaller". Smaller ambitions, smaller circles, smaller expectations of the body and the mind. I don't buy it. The more I read and the more I talked to people, the more convinced I became that this story is just wrong, or at least badly incomplete. Thriving After Sixty came out of wanting to tell the fuller story. The one where a seventy-year-old takes up an instrument for the first time and gets genuinely good at it. Where someone rebuilds their strength after a health scare and comes out stronger than they went in. Where curiosity doesn't retire just because a career does. These aren't exceptions; they're what's possible when we stop treating this stage of life as a waiting ...
