Moving West: Party down!

October 12, 2015
Chapter  10 Our first party in our new home  We used our new phone to call our friends and invite them over to sit on boxes, drink wine and eat pizza. Mary Ann,...
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Girlfriends

October 11, 2015
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I know lots of women. Women who have been with me through thick and thin. Women who give more than they take from me and women who take more than they give me. Women...
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Can we harness the wisdom of age?

October 10, 2015
Boomer friends, do you feel old? I didn't think so. It's always a surprise when I have to give my age.  Am I really that old? I think. Think back to the 1950s, when...
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Struggling to retire

October 9, 2015
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More than ever before, I see our generation struggling with retirement: questions of when to retire and how are front and center for at least a dozen people I know. Many...
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How to get your grown kid to leave home

October 8, 2015
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Ok, parents, this one's for you.  Well, it's for you if any of these questions resonate: Is your grown child over age 21 still living at home, even though he or she...
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Where did Christianity go wrong?

October 7, 2015
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These represent how Jesus Christ lived and and by example, what he taught his followers. These are, in fact, the central tenets of the Christian faith. And yet, we see...
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Women, insecurity and sage bodybuilders

October 6, 2015
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More than a population-proportionate number of Boomers were in the gym at 7:45am, working to stave off the effects of aging with their younger, fitter, and far more...
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Moving West: the cat’s in the kettle

October 5, 2015
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This is almost, but not quite, the last chapter in the saga of a move we made in 2000. If you'd like to read it from the beginning, the links to earlier chapters are...
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If you smell something…

October 4, 2015
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We're in the long lead-up to our next presidential election and the bullsh-t has begun to fly.  Presidents are skillful slingers of the cow patty; consider how Bush...
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Best chocolate chip cookie recipe

October 3, 2015
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I've tasted a chocolate chip cookie or two in my time--they're my all-time favorite cookie, but only home made. No question that Toll-House has a very good chocolate...
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