Public Speaking and Other Professional Services

Joanne Horn, the founder of Second Half Connections, is also available for public speaking and presentations within the field of "creative aging."

She will be presenting a program entitiled

“If I’m Not A Writer, Why Should I Write Stories About My Life?”

for the King County Library System Spring/Summer program series on “More to Explore 50+” at the following locations.

June 3rd at 1:30 pm @ Newport Way Library in Bellevue, WA.

June 7th at 7:30 pm @ Federal Way Library, Federal Way, WA.

June 17th at 2:00 pm @ Vashon Island Library, Vashon Island, WA.

School of Social Work Gerontology Certificate Network Panel Session: Career Opportunities in Lifelong Learning features Joanne as one of three panelists.
2012-1013 academic session.

To schedule Joanne for speaking engagements: contact her via webmail or directly at 206-953-9912.

"Why are we so obsessed with what we lose as we age and unclear about what we gain?"

~ Victor Frankl

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."

~ Soren Kierkegaard

"That which youth found and had to find outside of itself, in the second half of life must be found within."

~ C.J. Jung

"It is never too late to become what you might have been."

~ George Eliot

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

~ Mark Twain

"It's not the arrival, it is the journey that matters."

~ Montaigne

"Retirement as we have known it, is in the midst of being displaced as the central institution in the second half of life."

~ Marc Freedman

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."

- Dave Barry

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order ... the continuous thread of revelation."

~ Eudora Welty