Barbara Rady Kazdan

In her encore career, Barbara Rady Kazdan writes wry, incisive essays for Next Avenue, BetterAfter50.com, LivingBetter.com and more. This lifelong social entrepreneur and empty nester calls Silver Spring, Md. home.

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Answering a Wake-Up Call to Start Writing

Writing

Essays and travel become this widow's later-in-life passions

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 | By Barbara Rady Kazdan

Living

You May Feel Lonely, but You’re Not Alone

Lonely

Although making friends later in life is difficult, perseverance is worth it

JANUARY 1, 2018 | By Barbara Rady Kazdan

Living

My Role as Grandma: Doing My Own Thing (and Leaving the Grandkids Alone)

Grandma

Letting my grandchildren live freely while I joyfully engage in other pursuits

MAY 3, 2017 | By Barbara Rady Kazdan

Money

Am I Retired?

Woman writing

She shifted her focus and works fewer hours but questions the 'R' word

MAY 10, 2016 | By Barbara Rady Kazdan

Health

Is Today Tuesday? The Calendar-Free Retirement Life

Pile of calendar dates

The joys and traumas of not having a schedule anymore

NOVEMBER 18, 2015 | By Barbara Rady Kazdan

Health

The Good News: 70 Is Not the New 60

Barbara Kazdan on a boat in Maine

Why this author argues that the seventh decade has a lot going for it

DECEMBER 8, 2014 | By Barbara Rady Kazdan

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