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Real Life Facts About Today’s Reverse Mortgage Borrowers
If you’re a regular reader here, you know that there are a lot of myths about reverse mortgages. One of the biggest myths that we work to dispel is that reverse mortgages are a “last resort” and that our borrowers are desperate and needy.   That’s just simply not true....
Sir Ridley Scott is still a Lord of both the Big and Small Screens
I love great science fiction movies, those that are heavier on the fiction than the science. I like them more when some mystery weaves into a film. So, two movies from way back are two of my all-time favorites: "Alien," the 1979 film that combined outer space travel with a...
Odetta: Rediscovery and An Appreciation
A couple of months ago, I read a short book review of Odetta A Life In Music And Protest. I hadn’t thought about Odetta for years. But I remembered how she was my favorite folksinger and next to Fats Domino, my favorite singer period until I was flattened by a steamroller...
Learn the Language of Reverse Mortgages – They Are Useful Tools
Don't think of reverse mortgages as complex. Think of them as unfamiliar. You can easily understand the basic concepts of a reverse mortgage, but many homeowners are unaccustomed to the language and terms used for these loans.   It would help if you familiarized yourself with the concepts and terminology...
Our Aging Bodies on Chocolate and Kale
I'm guessing you've never heard of Jeanne Louise Calment. I hadn't either until a couple of years ago when I learned about her in one of my aging studies classes. Jeanne Louise Calment was born on February 21, 1875. She died on August 4, 1997. Neither of those dates is...
Our Aging Brains on Music
Let me start with this: I listen to music a lot.  I had a ton of LPs that I gave to friends because we were moving to downsize. I have more than 1,000 compact discs on shelves in our garage no room in the house).   All of those CDs have...