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Some hints for keeping a youthful attitude: Take calculated risks and leave your comfort zone occasionally. Nurture and share your passions. Lighten up. Don’t take life or yourself so seriously. Have a sense of humor. Don’t be afraid to tell a joke, even if it bombs or it’s on you. People will appreciate you taking the risk.

Just finished watching Dancing With the Stars. This is my first season watching it. One of my...

Who hasn’t sat down on New Year’s Day and come up with changes—such as losing weight and exercising more—they’d like to make? Our good intentions, though, can pass as quickly as the weeks on the calendar. Before we know it, we’re facing yet another New Year with the same old list. As Oscar Wilde cynically points out, “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where...

This morning, I was having my daily chat with GB Vice President Bill Shafer, and I told him how...

Follow your bliss! At age 61, I never thought I’d be living these famous words by Joseph Campbell. But when I realize that I’m doing the work I love from my home in the hills above a beautiful lake in New Hampshire, and that I’m sharing my life with a wonderful man - well, to me that’s bliss! As a first-time author, I guess you could say that my whole life, and certainly the last...

I was on Facebook a short while ago, and one of the advertisements caught my eye. It wasn't the...