Moore, an attorney, isn't actually childless. She has a grown son who lives in Utah and has been urging Moore to move there to be closer to him and his family. “He’s just sort of saying, ‘Well, Mom you're old now; we have to take care of you,’” Moore says. “And I’m saying, ‘I’m not old. I’ve got 20 years out there in my yard, thank you very much’,” she says with a laugh.

Moore has been careful about selecting as housemates women who get along, but who also have a sense of independence. “All of us, we have our own separate lives,” she says. “We do our own separate things, but we’ll meet up in the kitchen and chitchat. And then we’ll all go our different ways, which makes it nice. None of us are joined at the hip, and yet we all live together and do our own thing and live in the same house.”

- Boomer Housemates Have More Fun, NPR.org, May 22, 2013.

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