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Nov 26, 2024 | oprahdaily.com | Pilar Guzmán

Getty Images / Oprah DailyWhenever I tell people about the Last Trip Home I took to Italy with my 87-year-old mother and my older son last summer, everyone has the same response (“Awwww…”), which makes me feel like a fraud because I know they’re imagining some gauzy scene. And to be fair, I’d tried to plan it that way. I’d been dreaming of a “homecoming” for my mom for some time, once the kids were old enough to feel the weight of their grandmother’s origin story as a child-prodigy soprano.

Sep 16, 2024 | oprahdaily.com | Pilar Guzmán

Here at Oprah Daily, we talk a lot about what it means to “age well.” We marvel even as we face fears about irrelevance, invisibility, and our changing bodies that in the second half of life, the opposite is also true—that each passing year makes us bolder, more discerning, and far more comfortable in our skin.

Jul 2, 2024 | oprahdaily.com | Pilar Guzmán

We recently asked our Oprah Daily community what their greatest act of self-care would be if time and resources weren’t a barrier. All responses resoundingly—and unequivocally—involved some form of travel.

Jul 1, 2024 | oprahdaily.com | Ashlea Halpern |Bethany Heitman |Paulie Dibner |Pilar Guzmán

Earlier this year, we asked our Oprah Daily Insiders to name the one thing they would do for themselves if time and resources weren’t a barrier. An overwhelming number of you put travel at the top of your wish list—and we heard that loud and clear. We understand that you get the many tangible and intangible ways travel changes your perspective on the world and on your life. The way the lift you get from even a weekend road trip with an old friend can get you through a long winter.