My husband and I just became part of a growing trend – suburbanites who sell their house and move into the city in their 50s or 60s.

Summer is an adventure in fullness, ripeness, bounty, and can symbolize our dreams having matured and being realized. Wonderful opportunities can flourish under the bright sunshine if we are open to them. Greeting this new season with an open heart and holding intentions can make a difference.

I invited an interior designer to my home on Monday to consult with me about giving my kitchen a facelift. I had worked with Sue to help me pick out paint colors for all the rooms in my home when I went on a mad painting spree four years ago.

I turn 56 this week, and also celebrate my wedding anniversary. You can see why I call this week of May, “milestone week.” As I thought about my upcoming birthday, I picked up a book I read a decade ago, On Women Turning 50: Celebrating Mid-Life Discoveries by Cathleen Rountree. She interviewed a variety of women, from doctors, actresses, and journalists to activists, about their experiences turning 50.

Change can be freeing and open up new avenues in our lives. Yet FEAR also comes up when change presents new and unexplored territory.

Thinking about this made me think of the old joke: Question: What’s the definition of a minor operation? Answer: Someone else’s?

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OK I’ll admit it — I became a Winter Oympics junkie, sitting in my living room totally into watching the amazing feats of these athletes. One athlete in particular captured my imagination, Lindsey Vonn the women’s downhill skier.

As I listened to her story and watched her compete, I couldn’t help but get a few life lessons from Lindsey and her gold medal victory.

I went to a networking meeting in NYC at The Transition Network last month and I found it inspiring to be surrounded by a group of women who are actively choosing to reinvent themselves—and the ages of these women are 50+ to 80.

Laura told me she had recently attended a seminar at the aquarium about the evolution of salmon, which are among the most adaptive of fish. They swim many miles upstream to spawn and then die, while the juveniles swim back out to sea to begin the cycle again. Only the most hardy survive, as they adapt to the challenging journey. Her instructor had included a reference to Charles Darwin, who famously postulated that the animal species must adapt, migrate or die, just as the salmon do. Adapt, migrate or die has become her mantra for the future.

If you’re a mere babe of 50 or so, you can probably skip this. 60+? You may share my sentiments. I think it’s time to turn off the news now. Too many stories are talking about what was going on forty years ago. How could any of us be forty years older?