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I read the most interesting blog on the Time Goes By site this morning. The title is "Placing...

ALICE HORNBAKER “Life After 50” column ON AIR wmkvfm.org and WMKVFM. 89.3 FM/Cincinnati 4-23-12 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...

Over the course of my work with the Elderhostel Institute Network, I have “met,” usually through email, many interesting folks, and I’ve let them all know about my new book. One of them, Joan Fitting Scott, got back to me, offered congratulations, and we began an email correspondence about writing and marketing our own books. She has just written “Skinning the Cat: A Baby Boomer’s...

Several lifetimes ago when I was still a manager in the work place, I often started a meeting with a few words of caution. It conveyed one thought I wanted all the participants to keep in mind. It was what I called the "playing in the waves” phenomena. I'm sure you can recall spending some time at the beach, playing in the waves. You'd wade in, swim some, float some, maybe body surf some or...

One of the things I've come to realize, is that no matter how old we live to be, we still all have some sort of insecurity. I don't think I remember a time in my life when there wasn't something I struggled with....as a kid, it was likeability, looks, fitting in, and the list goes on. As an adult, it's been one thing or another, such as being the best at whatever job I was in, again, being liked...

What a fitting place to tell of my third book: "Connected" how the stroke of a computer key changed a life. As a caregiver full of despair and loneliness, Rose Lamatt enters a chat room on the Internet for the first time. She finds a different world than the one she's used to. Night after night, she signs into the same chat room, meeting people who listen to her, people who are passionate,...

Growing Bolder Radio Show guest Ciji Ware is challenging us to get rid of our lead-filled toys and stuff that's been collecting in our homes for years. She suggests some questions we should ask ourselves before buying a gift just for the sake of buying.

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...

WMKV 89.3 FM ON AIR AND WMKVFM.ORG ON THE INTERNET “LIFE AFTER 50” COL FOR MARCH 29, 2010 ON AIR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HELLO AGAIN. THIS IS ALICE HORNBAKER FOR WMKV 89.3 FM BRINGING YOU ANOTHER “LIFE AFTER 50” COLUMN THAT IS HEARD, EXCLUSIVELY, ON WMKV 89.3 FM AND WMKVFM.ORG AROUND THE...