Explore Your Future
Transition Stories
• Can you imagine going back to school? • How about starting a new career?
• Or returning to a long-postponed passion?
The stories shared here are real examples of people from the Philadelphia area who have explored an interest and made the leap to a new phase in their lives.
We hope they inspire you!
Area Woman Becomes Nurse in Her Late 50's...
And Helps Change Public Health Policy
Known in Antigua as “The Condom Lady,” Christine Stainton is known in the Philadelphia area for her outspoken advocacy of the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and other teen-related heath issues.
Local Principal Returns to a Childhood Love
From watching films with her father in a Brooklyn movie theater projectionist booth to becoming a principal in the Philadelphia suburbs to immersing herself in her long-simmering passion for photography, it’s been quite the journey for Ellie Seif.
Video Vignettes -- Watch Transition Stories Here!
All over Greater Philadelphia people age 50+ are volunteering or learning to do new things that are helping to transform their lives. Coming of Age has captured some of their inspiring stories — watch them here!
Boomer Chronicles: The Road to Nashville
While most people preparing
for an eight-day vacation would be hauling out the jumbo-sized luggage, I packed
a 12” by 18” shoulder bag: Eight rolled up T-shirts (check). Two pair of jeans
plus the one I would wear (check). Swimming trunks (check). Eight
pairs of underwear (check). There’s no wasted space on a motorcycle ride to Nashville.