I am an award-winning writer (min Award for best single article in a consumer magazine) with 40 years of experience. I write for the country’s top magazines, newspapers, and websites and am the author of two books and contributor to three more, Not Your Mother’s Retirement, AARP’s Where We Live: Communities of All Ages and 80 Things To Do Before You Turn 80. I have reporting experience writing a weekly Sunday news section for The Boston Globe for seven years, being a stringer for Newsweek and writing news and feature stories for AARP for 15 years.