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January 25, 2011 (ጥር Tir 17, 2003 Ethiopian Calendar) “50+ Entrepreneurs” Are you tired of punching the clock for someone else, but think you can't find another job at your age? Are the kids out of the house, freeing you to re-enter the job market? Are you nearing retirement, but don't know what you will do with all that free time - or wonder how you will manage once you...

ALICE HORNBAKER “Life After 50” column ON AIR wmkvfm.org and WMKVFM. 89.3 FM/Cincinnati 5-14-12 Hello again. This is Alice Hornbaker for wmkv 89.3 FM and wmkvfm.org streaming around the world in the Internet Mondays and Thursdays at 2:20 p.m. and Fridays at 8:50 a.m. and as a blog on growingbolder.com under blogs/life after 50/ajhornbaker and on Twitter, Facebook and...

“Hey, I’m home. What’s that I smell?” “Oh, that? It’s furniture polish. Bought a new kind… finished polishing just as you walked in the door. How was the golf? You and Booger win today?” "I swear. They oughta make furniture polish that smells like the inside of a new car.” “You say that about everything. I remember when you told your barber that he needed to invent...

Registration for the 19th Annual Polk Senior Games begins January 3. The Games, scheduled for February 26 – March 13, 2011, offer a two-week series of 92 Olympic-style events in 34 athletic and recreational sports. They attract over 2,600 men and women, 50 and over, with a variety of skills - the serious competitor, the fun at heart, the seasoned athlete, the late bloomer, and the physically...

May 9, 2011 ( ግንቦት 1 Ginbot 1, 2003 Ethiopian calendar) Now I am growing younger at heart and spiritually stronger and getting BOLDER by the day, I must blow my horn to do my part with all my blessings for TODAY in the best way I can for a Community Dialogue, Community Development & Community Diplomacy (The Spirit of America & Africa by beloved homes) but first MY OWN STILLNESS,...

June 17, 2011 or ሰኔ (Sene) 10, 2003 (Ethiopian Calendar) Dear: I am glad you agree with me about the need for a Dialogue. I am not that naive to think to CHANGE the world all I am telling you is that I AM TRYING TO CHANGE MYSELF how I think trying to break away from my conditioned mind, a mind conditioned by my upbringing, stories I was told and I observed, little education, experience,...

There seems to be a recurring theme when it comes to murder, especially when children are involved. In cases of filicide, when a parent unceremoniously ends the life of their own child -- or children, questions are raised about why no one saw it coming. Certainly, we heard it over and over during the course of three years, from July 15, 2008 through the trial and sentencing of Casey Marie Anthony....

“Methinks you’re lucky to be alive.” “What do you mean? How so?” “You’re lucky that you never ran into a wall, fell down a flight of stairs or an open manhole. This prescription that the optometrist sent over for you was pretty strong. From the looks of things, he thinks, you’re blind … an accident waiting to happen,” the technician says. Then she hands me a set of...

Rhonda Williams recently hit the jackpot! A few weeks ago, the Fairburn, Georgia resident was cleaning out her purse and discovered a lottery ticket worth a hundred eighty nine thousand dollars! A month prior, Irving Przyborski came across a lotto ticket that he’d bought and misplaced a year ago. The Chicago cab driver’s find was worth nine million dollars! Heartwarming lost and found...

From the window of my office, I felt my face light up with anticipation as I studied the UPS delivery man unloading the boxes of CDs. The “CCD,” Roger’s moniker for the 23 songs of the sea CD, is ready to go to mcguinn.com, CDBaby.com and maybe Amazon.com. Roger has autographed the first copies which will be sold at the Beverly Arts Center in Chicago on June 3, 2011.Creating the packaging...