These days, common reasons to move or downsize once the kids are grown have become less compelling. "Had we known," one empty nester told us, "I never would have sold my home."

Plus, this writer's mother had always been "a mover and a shaker" because she made things happen, but now it was her mother's body that was moving and shaking. "I can't walk," she said. "I don't feel like a person."

All this and more for you below.

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The Women Who Formed A
Spice Girls Tribute Band

We ❤ the UnLonely Film Festival!

By celebrating the power of storytelling in film, this festival and its films create a voice for the loneliness epidemic and help people better connect with short films, each other and themselves.

Learn more — and register for the upcoming virtual launch event on Sunday, June 5 — here. 

In the meantime, check out the short film "Wannabe," awarded Best Film at the UnLonely Film Festival this year. 

It's a hilarious, heart warming docu-drama about a group of older women who form a Spice Girls tribute band to earn a quick buck when one friend can’t pay the bills. 

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