Happy Tuesday!
Some people spend their fifties and sixties looking back. This week, three stories about looking forward instead — a lawyer who became a poet, a retirement that finds its footing, and a Hollywood legend who never forgot where he came from.
That's a 50+ life!
From Corporate Lawyer to Published Poet at 60
He closed the notebook for thirty years, then reopened it in a Hong Kong quarantine. Forty presses, thirty-nine rejections, one award-winning debut — and now a press of his own for poets who begin late. Submissions to Fifth Stanza close on Friday, July 31.
Retirement doesn't come with a map, and many people feel stranded once the work stops. Sue Mintz shares the sailor's trick for moving forward when you feel stuck in place.
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He was Hollywood's most polished leading man — but he was born Archie Leach in working-class Bristol, and he never quite left his roots behind. A warm read to end on.
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