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Let's start counting. 0 - 1 - 1 - 2... Whoops, I made a mistake; let's try again. 2 - 0 - 1 - 1; that's better: 2011. Well, not necessary better, but better or not the new year is knocking at our front door. We are slipping into a new year and a new decade of the 21st century. "Ready or not, here I come" as the old children's game goes. I don't know about you but I'm sort of ambivalent...

Was there ever a more chaotic decade than the 60's? I mean, it's like the '70's never had a chance!!! Imagine being squeezed in between the '60's and the '80's! It's no wonder the '70's wandered around like a lost little puppy looking for a place to call home. All those radical ideas that were so subversive and threatening in the '60's didn't seem so "far out" anymore, and many were even...

There are a lot of ‘fifty’ things we encounter in life. The Kennedy half dollar is fifty cents, there are 50 states, we have speed limits of 50 and in Kabbalah there are 50 Gates of Wisdom (or Understanding) and 50 Gates of Impurity; Paul Simon sung of the "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”, there is a rapper nicknamed 50 Cent and fifty percent is equivalent to one half, so that the phrase...

Is it really 2011? You and your gang might have some fun on New Year's Eve with this handy Decade in Review tool to help with your 2000 to 2010 reflection. What happened to the decade?!? Use this and the creation of a realistic new year resolutions as self growth tools that actually work. Decade in Review – Why? Some of the benefits of looking back are as...

The other evening we had a few friends over for dinner. Like me, they passed age 65 a few years ago, which means they graduated in the 1950s. In the course of our conversation I mentioned that if you looked at our high school year books, all the pictures of the students from one year book seem interchangeable with another - the faces all looked the same. One friend doubted me so I...