Mel Walsh

Author * Columnist * Gerontologist * Motivational Speaker

Mel Walsh
Columnist: Second Wind, Life After 50
Author: Hot Granny, Chronicle Books.
Radio Host: KVMR-FM

The author of four non-fiction books, Mel Walsh is a columnist who has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News and The Union. She's been nationally syndicated by King Features and now uses her advanced degree in gerontology to write Second Wind, a column all about the good life after 50. It's a buffet of inspiration, information and good humor, a survival manual for people who have found the hitting 50 or 60 or beyond isn’t the end of the road, but a gateway to a new kind of life…the one that used to be called retirement.

Find Second Wind at www.melwalsh.com or at www.theunion.com.

Mel was a Pendleton Scholar at Wellesley College and has an MA in English from the University of Arizona and an MA in Gerontology from the University of Southern CA. She lives on the Monterey Peninsula in Northern California and is married to Mac Small, Silicon Valley business attorney.

Mel is a member of the American Society on Aging and The American Gerontological Society.