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Let’s Get Back to Storytelling
UCLA Winter Quarter, 1991. I open a glass door engraved Department of Folklore and Mythology for my master’s degree interview, butterflies in my belly. The adviser in her two-piece suit motions to me....
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Six Must-See Movies for Late Bloomers
After all the glitz and snark of last week’s Oscar ceremonies, one film stayed with me — Searching for Sugar Man, “the incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest ’70s rock icon who never was.” I...
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When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for...
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Why Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Did you know that specialization is a relatively recent compulsion? During the Middle Ages, you could only study law, medicine, or religion. The Renaissance resurrected what we now call the humanities...
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Come MOOC With Me, The Best Is Yet To Be
Would you like to learn archaeology’s dirty little secrets? The best place to start is a MOOC. Almost every major university now offers free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The most popular MOOC...
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Does Uniquity Exist?
It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to. ~Jean-Luc Godard Embarking on this creative journey in my 50s used to terrify me. To make up for my lack of youth, I felt I had to...
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It’s Never Too Late To Find Your Vital Vocation
This week’s guest post is by Brian Cormack Carr of Birmingham, England, who decided he would write the book he always knew was in him by his 40th birthday…and told everyone. I’ve loved telling stories...
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Do You Plan to Write a Memoir?
News articles continually highlight that many baby boomers want to write a memoir when they “retire.” So we should. The decades we’ve lived through have captivated recent imagination — well beyond...
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Gifts of the Imagination from Three Late Bloomers
Do your kids adore Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty? Are you a fan of Twilight or True Blood? Did you catch Ridley Scott’s Prometheus on the big screen? Or is Doctor Who more your style? We can trace...
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Book Review: Zoning In On Creativity
Do you know that magical place where — while writing, working out, or making music — you feel completely immersed, in tune, outside of time? It has eluded me lately. I’ve so many creative projects...
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A Midweek Motivational: The Rightness of the Timing
Today’s post begins a new midweek series — art, storytelling, and/or inspiration from a good book — to feed your muse. My muse loves fairy tales, particularly modern ones. Here, author Patricia...
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A Midweek Motivational: Ithaca with Sean Connery
I find it astonishing the greatest adventure ever told — The Odyssey by Homer — has seen only two semi-faithful film adaptations. (Quick recap: The Odyssey recounts Odysseus’s ten-year return to...
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Anne Ramsey: 39 Years to Overnight Success
MSN calls her one of the Female Villains We Admire. Digital Spy ranks her among the Worst TV Moms. And Turner Classic Movie Channel describes her as “the queen of playing mean onscreen.” Yet actress...
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A Midweek Motivational: The Good News About Getting Older
This article is by Jonathan Young, founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives. There are some things that get better as we age. On our best days, we have a kind of grace. We are...
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Gifts of Creativity from Late-Blooming Writers
According to a 2010 survey conducted by the Humber School for Writers, the average age for authors first published in book form is 42. According to Douglas Adams, the answer to the ultimate question...
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Why I Write Science Fiction by Lindsay Edmunds
I’m honored to welcome Lindsay Edmunds, one of my favorite science fiction authors and a previous guest on Later Bloomer. I wrote a science fiction novel about love in the age of artificial...
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Introducing The 2014 Later Bloomer PDF Calendar
(Better late than never and endorsed by Puck the Cat, with the understanding that we know he’s cuter than Peter Rabbit.) I love celebrating the lives of Later Bloomer on their birthdays, so I recently...
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A Midweek Motivational: Inspiring Hope One Story at a Time
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson There’s a town just south of Calgary, Canada, called High River,...
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Telling Life’s Stories: Four Late-Blooming Personal Historians by Lynne Strang
I’m honored to feature a guest post by Lynne Strang this July 4th weekend—a great time to collect family stories! I had never heard of a “personal historian” until nearly three years ago. That’s when...
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Kathy Pooler: Memoir as a Tool for Transformation
“..ordinariness, when imbued with mindfulness, is greatness at ease with itself…” ~Lorraine Ash, Self and Soul: On Creating a Meaningful Life (2014) We all have a book inside of us—a narrative about...
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