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Wandering Minds
The population of the United States is aging, which means that people are living longer. This also means that seniors are forming a significant bloc with significant implications in terms of influencing politics, the economy, and culture. “Old age” now extends many years. Living longer and healthier, the older population...
Flipping Mindsets (part 2)
The purpose of my paper was threefold.  First, the context: crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence, plus existing mindsets and the concept of “yet” as a way to flip mindsets. In summary, crystallized intelligence is the summed-up knowledge, skills, and experience a person develops during their life.  Fluid intelligence is the capacity...
Healthier Retirees
The United States experienced a remarkable increase in the aging of its population during the twentieth century, thanks in good measure to self-awareness, medical breakthroughs, behavior modification, better nutrition, physical exercise, and heightened dissemination of pubic health information. Today’s retirees are much more aware than their century-ago counterparts of the...
Christmas is for Memories
For me, Christmas has evolved over my 80 plus years of celebrating.   From a child full of wonder and excitement to an adult who wants to make this a special celebration for a child or grandchild.   I grew up during a post-depression period through a War time shortage...
City life
The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky observed “what I like about cities is that everything is king-size, the beauty and the ugliness.”   Over the past five decades, a significant portion of the nation’s population living in the northern United States has migrated southward as they retired. The motivations for the...
Retirement work
It's been said that retirement is a young man's dream and an old man's nightmare. For those of us in our retirement years, that may be a very true statement. People are finding retirement an entirely new world. Now, we have a lot of time on our hands since we're...