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Kicking With ConfidenceNot everyone is willing to age gracefully! We found a group of grandmothers doing something a little bit different -- they're learning to fight to keep their vitality.
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WMFE and Growing Bolder Media Group Launch Lifelong Learning SegmentsWMFE and Growing Bolder Media Group are highlighting the personal and social benefits of lifelong learning and social engagement -- including improved quality of life and reduced health care costs -- with the launch Lifelong Learning Minutes.
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Great Teachers Make all the DifferenceI'll admit I'm a proud mama. My daughter graduates college this month. She's one of those kids many people hate. She takes her school seriously, gets great grades, and during her final art show, she sold three of her pieces. Her accomplishments took me back to when I graduated from New Jersey's Bergen Community College in 1987 and the influence my teachers and the respiratory community had on...
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Gary MarcusThink it's too late to learn that skill you've always dreamed about pursuing? Think again. An NYU psychologist says a growing field of research proves you can learn anything at any age, from learning to play an instrument to speaking a new language.
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Army Strong--Learning to Swim at 59In January of this year, I joined the local YMCA and signed up for swimming lessons. I managed to live 59 years--more than 21,700 days--without learning how to swim.I could dog paddle, but I never learned to actually swim. So how did I get through 10 years in the Army? In the water survival course I jumped in the pool in boots and my uniform and got rescued--three times. I was such a good...
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Country club to Homelss ShelterCountry club to Shelter living Homeless Shelter, scary words for me. I came to the Women’s Shelter a little over four weeks ago. I came not wanting to, but had no other choice. After neck surgery, I put $10,000 on credit cards, paying doctors and hospital bills. I knew the $600 a month I got from Social Security would not allow me to pay bills, pay rent, and eat. I pictured myself in a card...
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My Experience as a Student of a Community College at the age of Sixty-ThreeI Was Not a Traditional Student by Sondra Crane http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/167651/sondra_c.html My mother had told me years ago, after I had my first child, when I mentioned that I was sorry I did not graduate from college - I remember it as if were yesterday, "the years go by anyway, and if you only take one class a semester you eventually will earn your college degree". I did not...
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5 Questions With...We love learning from people who live life without fear; who prove it's not about age, it's about attitude. So we go in search of interesting characters, and ask them five (and many times more!) questions -- check it out!
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Robert Frost had it right in 1928The following is a poem by Robert Frost. I've been reading some of Frost's works and skipping over others that seem to drone on. This one, however, made me stop and think. Though it was written in 1928, it seemed so appropriate today for me and I suspect many other seniors. I have no idea why it is titled as it is. What Fifty SaidWhen I was young my teachers were the old.I gave up fire for...
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Attitude makes all the differenceTonight as I sit here thinking about my journey so far, I look back and wonder, how did I get through this? What got me through all of the days where I felt like I was stumbling? It was faith and attitude. We all can determine the direction in our lives by our attitudes, beliefs and assumptions. Unfortunately, very early on in life we are conditioned to think, act and behave a certain way....
