Life After 40
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Healthy Living
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Purpose & Passion
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Wellbeing
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Boundaries
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Teaching English in Portugal or Online – Opportunities Abound
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Reclaiming Your Health: A Practical Guide to Quitting Smoking
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A Year of Art and Craft Fairs: Algarve, Beja, and the Borderlands Between
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Why I Chose a Quiet Village in the Algarve for my Forever Home
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Teaching English in Portugal or Online – Opportunities Abound
September 17, 2026
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How to Become an ESL Teacher: Certification Paths, Online Training, and What the Requirements Actually Are The demand for English
Reclaiming Your Health: A Practical Guide to Quitting Smoking
September 16, 2026
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Choose to Quit Choosing to quit smoking is one of the most transformative decisions you can make for your physical
The Second Bloom
September 15, 2026
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Margaret had lived in the same house for forty-one years, and for forty-one years the roses along the back fence
Why Hobbies Matter More Than Ever After 40
September 15, 2026
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Why Hobbies Matter More Than Ever After 40 There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that shows up sometime after 40.
Building Strength – No Dumbbells Required
September 11, 2026
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Building Strength After 60 There’s a persistent myth that real strength training requires a rack of dumbbells or a gym
A Year of Art and Craft Fairs: Algarve, Beja, and the Borderlands Between
September 11, 2026
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Living where the Algarve folds into the Alentejo — close enough to the beaches to smell salt on a west
Why I Chose a Quiet Village in the Algarve for my Forever Home
September 10, 2026
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When people hear that we left Ireland for a tiny village in the Algarve, the first question is almost always
10 Side Hustles to Make Money and Use Your Talent
September 10, 2026
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1. Freelance Writing or Editing If you have a way with words, businesses and publications are always looking for content:
Thirty-Three Years, Three Countries: An American Expat’s Life in Europe
September 10, 2026
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There’s a particular kind of vertigo that comes from having lived somewhere longer than you lived in your own country.
How to Survive a Visit With Difficult Friends and Relatives
September 9, 2026
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There’s a special kind of dread that sets in when you realize a family visit isn’t a weekend — it’s