i left off the previous blog with me arriving at Camp Shanks, NY.. Shorly after that, our division was loaded on the good ship General J.R. Brooks. After 14 days in a convoy and joining many sea sick buddies in rough north Atlantic seas, we landed in...

Howdy folks! Mike Nanus here with my first ever blog on the Growing Bolder web site! YAY! I think I witnessed something over the weekend that certainly exemplifies somebody I think is growing even bolder. This past weekend, in front of over 10,000...

As some of your already know, I am a motorcycle enthusiast. To be on the open road with the wind in my face gives me a feeling of really being alive and in touch with nature. The other day a small group of us over 50 year old riders decided to take...

We talk a lot about the rapidly changing culture of aging and how anything is now possible. That’s a good thing, right?For many American’s, the surprising answer is “no!”  One woman recently told me, “I don’t...

I bought a new motorcycle this week and I just had to take it out for a breakin ride, and what a georgous day to do it.  I headed south from Clermont to Lake Louisa Road, which is one of my favorite roads.  The lake was beautiful as usual and...

Someone on another site asked me how I found Terry.  It's harder, it seems, when we're older, and she was unsure of how to start. Terry and I met online.  I know, a lot of people still think online dating is dangerous, desperate, and maybe even...

You’ve heard of paying it forward? It’s the concept that if someone does something nice for you, you do something nice for someone else. Then that person will do something nice for another person, and so on, and so on. Instead of paying the...

I thought the Oscars awards show was a great example of why filmmakers spend so much time and money perfecting their craft.  None of them do it because they think they will get nominated -- they do it because it's their passion, and they feel...

While completing my annual fire department physical exam the doctor once again highly recommended I have a colonoscopy performed. They have been scaring me since I turned fifty. I kept putting it off because the idea of have something like a garden hose...

Each year I go on a motorcycle adventure to somewhere on the North American Continent. I don't travel the main roads, but opt for the back roads and even dirt roads that criss-cross throughout our great country. This year my destination was Eastern...

It happens almost every day. I get home from work, kick off my shoes, plop down in front of the television and I hear that unmistakable voice. He wants me to go swimming. My 13-year old son has waited all day for his dad to join him in the...

Ciji Ware didn't exactly have a normal upbringing, but she hasn't complained one bit. Her father, Harlan Ware was one of two main writers for the longest running non-interrupted serial drama in radio history, "One Man's Family." Harlan died exactly 40...