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The other day a picture of a rapper, Bow Wow, flashed across the screen and included a quote that said something like - "I may be young but I feel more like 50". You often hear parents speaking of a young child as "7 going on 37". With all due respect to Bow Wow and those parents - I DON'T THINK SO!!! What they are saying is they think they have more mature interests and activities, and,...

A while back a picture of a rapper, Bow Wow, flashed across the screen and included a quote that said something like - "I may be young but I feel more like 50". You often hear parents speaking of a young child as "7 going on 37". With all due respect to Bow Wow and those parents - I DON'T THINK SO!!! What they are saying is that think they have more mature interests, are involved adult...

(Note to readers: I am fully aware the purpose of Growing Bolder – as you move along in life, get out there and enjoy it. However, in spite of that, not everyone is going to jump out of a plane or go snorkeling in some exotic bay. For many getting it’s a matter of adjusting to a new phase in life. Here is one senior’s take on it.) So you are going along, busily living life, enjoying...

One of the regular columnists in the Daytona Beach News-Journal wrote a column a while back about how much he likes hats - he really likes hats. The problem, he says, is that his daughter tells him he looks old when he wears a hat. That is an opinion people hear time and again. You look old wearing that, listening to that, doing that. What's amusing to this senior is that when you reach my...

I'm not an avid user of Facebook but I do have both a personal account and a "john latenightmusings" account there. Because my use is occasional I'm not an expert when it comes to the various features the site has, and I don't have much interest in most of them. However, one of the features I enjoy is the alerts for friends' birthdays. Assuming the friend has entered their birth date, Facebook...