I'm R.A.Murphy, and I've lived through fifty years of extraordinary change - not just in technology, but in everything. I was a soldier, then a long-haired hippie, then a college graduate starting my first real job as a computer programmer.

I stayed in Tech for all the years since. I watched the world navigate decades of transformation that rewrote how we work, connect, age, and find meaning.

That journey taught me something crucial: the tools matter, but what really matters is how we navigate the changes, hold onto purpose, and build lives worth living through every transition.

Now I'm focusing that lifetime of experience on Older Adult Life - helping people in this chapter find practical tools for staying healthy and safe, navigate the transitions that catch us off guard, and discover the deeper purpose that makes these years rich rather than just endurable.

I bring an investigator's rigor to the questions because you deserve accuracy, not platitudes. But I'm here as a companion traveler who knows these transitions from the inside, not as some expert standing apart from the journey.