Category Archives: Lifestyle

7 Things to Know About Life After 50

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

1. The urge to cook evaporates. The urge to order out, go out and cop out of cooking takes over. After 50, there is no going back to four-course dinner parties. Those dinner parties now seem like dreams, a time … Continue reading →

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Are you autoliterate?: What older people need to know about the new cars

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

We’ve all heard about the reduced skills of older drivers: We’re less flexible so we can’t swivel our necks to see backing up. Our reflexes are slower and we’re more likely to get in accidents–blah, blah. Still, it is the … Continue reading →

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Lost & Found: The Pleasures of Life

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

Have you noticed a weird category of life experiences—things that give great pleasure, but because they are not part of your habit pattern, you forget how wonderful they are and so you don’t pursue those pleasures? Then you run across … Continue reading →

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When retirement is a pain in the posterior…

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

Though retirement is stereotyped as a geezer Garden of Eden furnished with recliners and a flat screen TV, it can be tough. You’d never know it, though, from the ads. You’ve seen them—beautiful Botoxed models with silver hair, riding bikes … Continue reading →

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Wisdom: What’s Your One Parting Shot?

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

The one thing I hate about the prospect of dying someday—other than not knowing how things come out with the grandkids or the Giants—is that each brain has a library in it and when the brain goes, so does the … Continue reading →

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Bad Moods: Changing into something more comfortable

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

Moods come in all colors—black, grey and blue for starters. Am I the only one seeing more blue moods in the morning? Evidently not…. Maybe it’s economics—the rates on retirees’ CDs are going so low, we’ll soon owe the banks … Continue reading →

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Tech for the older adults: Can you handle more?

Posted on October 13, 2010 by

If you’re reading this, you’re an experienced net tourist, not a newbie to the wonders of the web and email. But, if you’re like me, you wonder if you want or need more. Should you complicate your life with Skype, … Continue reading →

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Farmergate: When aggie imposters infiltrate farmers’ markets

Posted on September 29, 2010 by

OK, I’m used to the ground shifting beneath my feet…housing prices cracked, retirement investments going into a sinkhole and so forth and so forth, but now—oh perfidy!—it seems that peddlers posing as farmers have infiltrated the farmers’ markets of the … Continue reading →

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Prisoner of Stuff: Solving the Downsizing Dilemma

Posted on September 13, 2010 by

Do we hold on to stuff or does stuff hold on to us? So many people drown in their possessions, I  believe stuff has a gravitational pull, power to suck us down into buying, holding, hoarding and then adding more. … Continue reading →

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