Ann Conroy Randall

Dec 9, 2024 | 3rdactmagazine.com | Ann Conroy Randall |David Nemetz

Your community senior center. Have you ever ventured inside? No? Perhaps because your engaged lifestyle doesn’t include Bingo, square dancing, and sing-alongs. Senior centers have noted your absence and are reinventing themselves to adapt to a more diverse and active older adult demographic. It’s a complicated change for an institution that began post-WWII as an answer to the urban isolation of older adults.

May 28, 2024 | 3rdactmagazine.com | Ann Conroy Randall |Victoria Starr Marshall

Group Trips Open the World to Solo Travelers and Couples, Too. “Do you feel your new Qi energy?” Arms stretched overhead, 16 women nodded dutifully. We’d flown and driven plenty of Qi-draining hours from all over the country to participate in Road Scholar’s Rejuvenation Retreat for Women. The Qigong class was our introduction to five days of meditation, yoga, and hiking in the California Redwoods with a retired forest service ranger.

Dec 2, 2023 | 3rdactmagazine.com | Ann Conroy Randall |Victoria Marshall

That my 88-year-old neighbor Bill built himself a treehouse last year is no surprise to anyone who knows him. Every weekday at 7:30 a.m., he fires up his truck for the three-minute drive to Hot Shots Java. There he joins a longstanding group of regulars on the coffeeshop’s sidewalk—many of them the town’s emeritus business owners and leaders. Sometimes their spouses and partners tag along. Occasionally a passerby joins in. They discuss town politics and news. They solve the world’s problems.

Sep 4, 2023 | 3rdactmagazine.com | Ann Conroy Randall |Victoria Starr Marshall

Julia Cameron wears many hats. She’s a playwright, artist, poet, musician, author, mother, grandmother, former Rolling Stone journalist, and ex-wife of director Martin Scorsese. When her marriage to Scorsese ended over his affair with Liza Minnelli and Cameron’s subsequent decline into alcohol and cocaine, she spent the next 15 years reclaiming both her creativity and dignity, before parlaying her recovery into a 1992 international bestselling book, The Artist’s Way.