Kent Nerburn, 05/03/12

Author

My cab was a rolling confessional. Passengers would climb in, sit behind me in total anonymity and tell me about their lives.

Charles Scott, 05/04/12

Endurance athlete and family adventurer

As we travel through life's phases, we must let go of so much. And I don't think it gets easier with practice. But maybe just accepting that eventually we will have to let go is the secret to living a full life.

Gillian Clark, 05/03/12

Chef

I'm pushing 50 now and Mother Nature is about done with me. It's Father Time's turn and he is determined to make a man out of me.

Enid Borden, 05/03/12

President and CEO, Meals On Wheels Association of America

It is the prevalence of senior hunger that is out of step with America and its values, in any and every economy.

Bonni Brodnick, 05/03/12

Author; Lifestyle Columnist

I looked at my chic mom and realized that she was far more fashionable than I'd ever be. My snow boots were hardly put away and here was my mother wearing turquoise Tory Burch ballet flats.

Michael Hodin, 05/04/12

Executive Director, Global Coalition on Aging

Bottom line, Class of 2012: The hippies who brought you strobe lights and Led Zeppelin are graying -- and they've got 450 million boomer peers worldwide. Your success depends upon all of us creating new paths of education to keep these "seniors" at the cutting-edge.

Gail Sheehy, 05/03/12

Author, Journalist, Lecturer

"I am not ready to be 90," she told me. "It is just words. I have as much passion and ambition as I have had at any age." Let's hope we all have a new dream at ninety.

Karin Kasdin, 05/03/12

Author, 'Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy: Confronting Motherhood, Womanhood and Selfhood in a Household of Boys'

Recent blogs and magazine articles extolling the new breed of grandmothers would have us believe that our own grandmothers lived their lives in floral housedresses and orthopedic shoes.

David Freeman, 05/03/12

Senior Science Editor, Huffington Post

Deborah Szekely looks good or 90. Heck, she looks good for 50 -- and she says she doesn't feel any different now than she did decades ago.

Alan Fischer, 05/03/12

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Fischer & Co. LLC,

As we grow older, we tend to think in terms of past events. While the past is important, when I speak about Deborah, I always describe her as a woman with a future.

Jody Gastfriend, 05/03/12

Vice President of Care Management, Care.com

As many of my generation of caretaking, overextended, multi-tasking women can attest to, saying yes is easy; saying no can be tough.

Warren Adler, 05/03/12

Author

When we parted he told me, "There is a point in a long life, young man, when you see the truth of things with absolute clarity. "

Ann Brenoff, 04/26/12

Senior Writer, The Huffington Post

I just had the ultimate boomer moment: I booked a colonoscopy for the same day that I had tickets to see Bruce Springsteen.

Don McNay, 05/03/12

Best-selling author,'What to Do When You Win the Lottery' & 'Wealth Without Wall Street'

401(k) plan investments are a primary driver of the investment markets. They are also the reason that many people are pacing the floors at night, worrying if their retirement will get delayed or destroyed.