12 YEARS TO LIVE

A Guide for Solo Seniors

The Question That Started Everything
Let me start with a question I've been asking people for a while now: "What are you going to
do for the rest of your life?" If you've got kids and grandkids, the answer comes easy. "Spend time with family." "Watch
the grandkids grow up." "Be there for them." That's a good answer. A complete answer. But what if you don't have that answer? What if you're divorced after decades of marriage, widowed, or maybe your family is distant or estranged? What if you're like me—78 years old, single after 44 years of marriage, and facing the rest of your life without the default roadmap
that everyone else seems to have?

When I ask solo people that question, I get different answers.
Some say "travel the world"—which sounds great until you think about the reality of airports, long flights, and exhaustion. Some say, "I don't know." And too many say, "Watch TV, I guess."
That gap between "I don't know" and "watch TV"—that's where this book lives.

Turning from being alone to being one, and loneliness into oneliness.