Posts by Hasthi Wand

In the ’70s, food was another story -- People mainly worried about convenience, not about additives, dyes, or sodium content of what they ate. If it tasted good and looked…

Once I turned 60, all those little things I used to feel guilty about just vanished. Rather, I let them all go. After all, life is too short for guilt…

Entering my 60s has given me so much to learn about what is important - the most important lesson I’ve learnt is that less is more. I used to think…

Your parents might have taught you things that you didn’t make sense until much later in life. Some of their teachings seemed random or unnecessary at the time. Why did…

Retirement is your chance to hit the reset button on life’s little rules. There are no more wake-up calls, schedules &  feeling pressured to always be "on". Rather, you have…

As we age, some habits, choices & behaviors become harder to maintain – or frankly impractical. Life becomes different after 60, and things that once seemed so easy no longer…

Boomers didn’t have smartphones, games or streaming services then. They needed to get inventive – sometimes in ways that seem entirely bizarre now. From playing with life-threatening objects to finding…

We use many things day in and day out without thinking much, assuming that everything is perfectly safe. What if some of those common things are actually harming us in…