“Transition to contentment”: Jonathan Rauch on the scientific reasons life gets better after fifty, why the midlife slump is a normal and necessary, and how it’s a “we” not a “me” problem. Plus, Nancy’s excited to make like a Grandma Orca.

* Jonathan’s website

* The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better after 50 – find links to buy the book here!

Time really is on your side, it turns out. As for the video: oh my god they were babies. BABIES I tell you.

Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the Midlife Mixtape podcast – check him out here!