Encouraging and equipping women over 60 to live their best life!
In 2025, my sister Lauren and her husband took one of their sons, his wife, and their two children on a Disney cruise. Lauren later wrote about the experience for Best-Life Project in Is a Disney Cruise for You? Her grandchildren were six and ten—just about the perfect ages to be swept up in Disney…
Class reunions invite us to revisit the good old days, laugh about shared memories, and remember the dreams we once held. But they also remind us that our best life isn’t behind us. Wendy Fletcher reflects on nostalgia, resilience, and why this season of life still holds exciting possibilities.
Rather than trying to look untouched by time, I want to look like someone who wasn’t afraid to live. Inspired by Theodore Roosevelt’s “strenuous life,” this post explores why the marks of aging may be the beautiful patina of a well-lived life.
If you have always been a huge Disney fan, this cruise would be a dream come true–enhanced by making memories with your grandchildren.
Today, people say they want experiences, they choose to collect memories not things. One of the best ways to do this is with a girlfriend getaway!
On each cruise, as I have interacted with these wonderful young people, I have been struck with what a great opportunity this is—especially for those who are at an in between place in life. This is true even for those who are a bit older. I’ve thought: “Maybe women my age have a grandchild (or great niece or nephew) for whom a job on ACL would be a perfect fit.” But who thinks of this? It is not like they’d be working for some foreign conglomerate. ACL is family owned and all American.
Throughout Lauren’s and my recent travel, we’ve met people who have been on many cruises and to exotic places—Antarctica being just one of them. People asking Lauren why she’d go to Antarctica prompted a more general, more philosophical question: Why travel? Lauren queried her Facebook friends and I intentionally sat with people I didn’t know on my April cruise to learn their answers to the question.
I always thought I’d write a book: “Yes, I Could Travel with just Two Pairs of Shoes, but Why?” The subtitle was going to be: “Finding Fun in a World focused on Efficiency.” I never wrote the book as I never found an answer worthy of a book.
While being thought provoking for your own life, the Wildwater Walking Club books are an easy and entertaining read. I tend to read in bed, next to my husband—with my Kindle in dark mode. Many times, I had to stifle my chuckle to keep from waking him up. You will love the friendship and camaraderie between the women as well as their travels—you will feel like you are on the trip with them. The health coaching and life lessons are an added bonus.
Having just returned from a tour of the Holy Land, (more on this later) I literally saw Biblical history come to life. We saw a reclaimed first century fishing boat from the Sea of Galilee, stood at the headwaters of the Jordan River where Jesus asked, “Who do you say I am?” and walked the…
