My Better Half

Deborah Costella, dancer turned chef turned Cosmic Muffin School of Cookery business owner.

A lifelong musician, Antonio Melendez conducted his first orchestra while in his forties.

Honest Aging: An Insider's Guide to the Second Half of Life by Dr. Rosanne Leipzig

The organization Third Act helps mobilize people over 60 to focus on some key issues. Deborah Moore, a retired environmental scientist in California.

My Better Half, JPR's Vanessa Finney talks to Levine about taking up nutrition therapy later in life, and how he's still doing it at age 70.

Mary Bemis is active as a lecturer on spa culture and the Editorial Director of Insider's Guide to Spas.

JPR's Vanessa Finney exchanges some words with the writer Adam Gopnik about his latest book, "The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery," and learning new skills.

Interview with photographer Matt Witt on My Better Half

You've probably heard about birth doulas, people who assist women in delivering babies. Turns out, there are doulas for the other end of life... Sarah Doré is a tea shop owner training to be a death doula.

Eric Chandler explains how adapting to college as a 40-something was much easier than he feared.

Pam Haunschild rose to the top of her profession, teaching organizational theory at the business schools at Stanford and Texas-Austin. Now she's creating art on a regular basis, finding the joy in returning to an old love. Pam is the focus of the latest chapter of My Better Half.

Not long after Judy Collins played to a big audience at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, she sat down with Vanessa to talk about life and music and living well, well beyond the so-called "prime of life."