Aging Well: Finding Beauty in the Gray

Send us Fan Mail Pippa Cutter Humphrey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with extensive experience as a Hospice and bereavement counselor. She shares her insights into this difficult, unavoidable but also really important process for caregivers and loved ones. For many of us, we think in broader strokes about these experiences. Pippa reminds us to tend to the practical and to push through inert...

Send us Fan Mail After working and raising two sons, Sharon spent many years working for North Carolina State University’s School of Design Library. That and engaging various volunteer pursuits, including sharing creepy crawlies with visitors of all ages at the North Carolina Science Museum, and working many shifts with the North Carolina Reading Service, a nonprofit wherein volunteers read variou...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Mick Smyer, who hails from New Orleans, was moved to become involved in hands on educational efforts to help people find their personal connection to care and stewardship of our natural world. What were the deciding factors that so inspired Mick? Hurricane Katrina which wrought indescribably damage to the people and places around his beloved hometown, and his lovable passel of...

Send us Fan Mail For many years, Tricia has been a mainstay at North Carolina State University. A lifelong learner herself, she now serves as the director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at NC State. Under her leadership, with a small, dedicated team and an army of committed volunteers, OLLI has flourished and expanded its offerings and even managed to find a path forward in the mi...

Send us Fan Mail Joy Jones and Myra Morgan Martin met in 2004 over a shared love of good health and physical activity. Joy was putting together the initial experience that in time would come to be known as the DC Retro Jumpers. Joined by several others, they reminded us all of a love for the simplicity, and yes joy, of the childhood activity, Double Dutch jump roping. They took to the streets and...

Send us Fan Mail Hailing from small town Texas, Tuck Kamin's life and career have arced in the direction of a desire to understand the aging process and how people can choose a healthier and more vibrant path forward. One of the chief learnings for Tuck, the seed being planted via playing marbles with his grandmother, is that of the necessity of intergenerational connectedness. From his explo...

Send us Fan Mail Jonathan began his lifelong love affair with the stage as a child, making his debut at the historic Flat Rock Playhouse near his home in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. From there he parlayed this passion into a lengthy career teaching theater, acting and public speaking across all levels and ages. He has had a couple of short-lived retirements, notably one a...

Send us Fan Mail For this debut episode, Hugh gives an overview of the impetus and inspiration for this podcast, namely the exploration of identity, meaning, relationships, creativity and yes, beauty in the Third Age. The Third Age is the time of life in and approaching retirement typically characterized by relatively good health and a shifting of priorities with work and family life. How we consi...