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    The VP debate

    I've got to say something.... I think Mrs. Palin may be on to something. Palin: "I don't want to talk about that, I have this other agenda that I want to discuss." Think about how useful that tatic could have been for our...

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    Meet the Newest Baby Boomer Computer Geek!

    Oh my God!  I never thought it would happen to me.  I’ve turned into a computer geek!  Lord knows, I don’t know how it happened because it wasn’t that long ago that I didn’t even want to turn the thing on.  I...

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    Where Does Stuff Go??

    I’m just curious, that’s all.  I know where socks go, one at a time after you put them in the laundry.  The sock thief, of course.  Come on!  EVERYone knows that.  But, that’s all I know.  For example,...

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    AARP Magazine - Medication Reminders R US!!!

    Back in June of 2007, at the Mary Furlong Business Plan Competition in Silicon Valley, I met Susan Ayers Walker, the Technology writer for AARP.  She is a very  energetic and tech savvy lady.   She liked what we're doing with our...

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    Fabulously 40 and Beyond

    Forty is fabulous!  After years of putting others first, I have finally grasped the concept that my life belongs to me.   As a young woman, I lived for the approval of others.  If I was just pretty enough or did enough for others,...

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  • Irongeezer & Irongeezelle Eggink
    Life/Death

    Life/Death  by Cliff & Tatjana EgginkThe Bucket List. From the moment we are born, we are dying. Of course, for the first few years of our life, we have zero awareness of this fact; we are not aware of much actually, but we live in a state of...

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    Down to the Wire…

       In May of 2006, the almost-final PDF version of the book arrived from Sentient and we began going through it, page by page, making revisions and finding errors.  I was surprised at how some of the rules of grammar had changed from...

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    When you're face falls off your FACE!

    Okay, I’m not sure what happened to Helen Hunt, but apparently her face got caught in a vacuum machine and she was only able to survive after pulling back so hard that her face fell off.It doesn’t seem that long ago that Helen Hunt was perky...

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  • Marc
    We Resolve to Help You

    It’s that time of year again. A new year filled with new hope. It’s the time when we all make resolutions to spend more time with family and friends, help others, get fit, lose weight, run a marathon, start a new business, change jobs, beat a...

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  • My Life's in Jeopardy

    I spent Christmas day of 2008 on the pulmonary floor of Florida Hospital North in Altamonte Springs with a severe case of pneumonia in my right lung. I'm feeling better today, but living in a hospital room for five days is no picnic. I was poked and...

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    Wit of the Weenie Whistler

    In this unforgettable Growing Bolder exclusive, you'll meet Rick Fay, the innovator of the Weenie Whistle. He also played with Ish Kabibble, and how many of us can say that?


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    Growing Bolder With the 105-Year-Old Virgin

    Every time someone has a 100th birthday or a 105th or a 110th, we all ask, “What’s the secret to your longevity?” A drink of whiskey every day. A cheerful heart. A loving spouse. Lots of vegetables.  We’ve heard them all --...

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  • Irongeezer & Irongeezelle Eggink
    "The 'Free' Way of Your Life."

    The “Free” Way of Your Life: By Tatjana and Cliff Eggink. As we get older, it is strange that snippets of songs and poems return to our minds with new meaning: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and Frank...

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  • Joyce Dillon
    Hello! Are You Listening to Your Life?

    There is always a particular moment when you clearly know you need to change your life. That desire for change is like a grain of sand in a shoe, imperceptible at first but grinding away until it becomes the only thing you notice. Your instinct is to...

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    The WHY'S of Life

    So, I was wondering yesterday why my eyebrows, by the end of a day, have dust in them?  And, then I began to wonder why we even have them.  I mean, I understand why we have eyelashes.  Aren’t they there to keep the dust out of our...

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    Honestly, yummy

    IrongeezelleSays™ “Honestly, yummy” By Tatjana Eggink Since I was a small child, food has played a dominant part of my life. My family – parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins – would gather for lunch, the...

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  • Ruth Hamilton loved life for 109 years
    How Does It Feel To Be 109?

    I don't think about being 109. I think it's wonderful and I keep asking, "How much longer?" I want to stay here. I want to see who the next president is going to be and what's going on in schools. I'm very curious. And I think that curiosity is one of...

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    Facebook for Business

    This Friday should be very interesting. I have been asked by many of my networking friends to 'coach' them on social networking for their business on Facebook. It seems as if they are understanding the importance of 'exposure' more than they did recently....

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    New Hampshire

      In 2001 my husband and I purchased a get-away house in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire and began spending all our free time there.  Then, in 2003 my husband took early retirement, while I continued to work for Elderhostel in Boston. ...

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  • Marc
    Growing Bolder with The Biggest Losers

    Nearly 12 million Americans watched the Biggest Loser finale on NBC. That’s a big number. But here’s a bigger number - 72 million Americans are considered obese.The show has been an unqualified success because it demonstrates in dramatic...

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  • Why McCain and the Republicans lost

    Please allow me to preface this article with something. If you don't believe Barack Obama has ushered our nation into the 21st century with a big BAM! - then stop here. When the entire world sits up and pays attention to an American election, the...

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  • Bill Shafer
    New Led Zeppelin Album

    It's the hottest rumor going today, that Led Zeppelin will reform without lead singer Robert Plant, record a new studio album and then tour with the fill-in singer. So where do rumors like that come from? In this case, straight from Jimmy Page's...

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  • Irongeezer & Irongeezelle Eggink
    Trick or Treat

    Trick or Treat? By Tatjana “Irongeezelle” Eggink & Cliff “Irongeezer” Eggink Since October is the month of Halloween, Irongeezelle thought it might be apropos to provide a mixed bag of morsels, most tasty and most foul:...

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    Fire! Or why a newspaper is no alternative for a hose

    Yesterday started bad, as when I got up, I knocked over a lamp that is on my side of the bed. (By accident, it is not my habbit nore was it my intention!) And it broke. Now that lamp was essential for working in the bedroom, as during this time of year,...

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  • Lemon Aid?

    I don't know if it's Murphy's Law or just my luck, but whenever I cut into a lemon, some of the juice will squirt into one of my eyes and cause excruciating pain. Big time. What synergy causes that liquid to always find a path leading directly to one...

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  • Bernie - The Ultimate Florida Gators Fan!!!
    My Holiday Vacation

    As a person who travels frequently, and who sometimes stays at the homes of relatives and friends, I try not to overstay my welcome. One of the ways I do this is to watch for subtle hints that my hosts drop to give me a gentle nudge to LEAVE. I believe...

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    STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT

    We had just finished our high school senior class trip.  After a week in Virginia Beach, VA we had returned to our little town and were saying goodbye, knowing that some of us would probably never see each other again in our lifetimes.  It...

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    Ten Tips to Help You Live Drama Free at Midlife

    Ten Tips to Help You Live to be Drama Free at Midlife   10.  Write a list of goals you'd like to achieve. Focus on what you know you can do well.  Don’t try to be a...

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    How my mother changed world history - without knowing it!

    Terschelling, Netherlands, June 1964 She was skipping the rope that, on the other end, was tight up on the stoop bench, while she stood across the street and my friend was jumping. She had been jumping for such a long time, she started to pant....

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    Winter, Winter...Go AWAY!

    The temperature plunged to 34 degrees last night.  Oh, I know, I know...you hinterlanders, you Nordespeople, you esqueermos...you’re laughing, aren’t you? You know what, you all can HAVE the snow because after the beautiful white flakes...

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    The Red Hat Fountain of Youth

    It’s never too late to become a Red Hatter. Just ask Ethel Barnhart who first joined the Red Hat Classics in Augusta, Georgia 7 years ago. What’s so unusual about that? Ethel was 93 at the time.


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    ME........depressed???!!!

    Lets see ...where do I begin AGAIN??!! OK ..i grew up in a small "town"....which I suppose is a small city ...with a pop. of about 20,000.00 + back in a 2000 census I believe. I grew up in the mountains up north....and didn't catch how beautiful they...

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    A Great Depression Christmas

    WMKV “LIFE AFTER 50” COL FOR 12-22-08 on air --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------             HELLO AGAIN. THIS IS...

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  • Experience Corps
    Michelle Hynes

    What if your life experiences could better the life of a child? In 20 cities across the country, more than 2,000 mentors are doing exactly that.


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    Tacky, Tacky!

    Actually, truth be told, we’re all up in there with being tacky...but tackiness is as tacky does, as The Ancient One is want to say.  I’m still not sure what that means, but I think she was trying to tell us that there actually ARE...

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    Studs Terkel

    Born: May 16, 1912
    Died: Oct. 31, 2008
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author and broadcaster best known for his series of oral histories.


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    Long Distance Runner at the Florida Senior Games State Championships

    Did you hear the one about the guy who traveled from Olympia, Washington to Fort Myers, Florida to qualify for the National Senior Games?   That’s what Craig Anderson, the winner and record setter at the 5K and 10K Road Races on successive...

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  • Irongeezer & Irongeezelle Eggink
    "Obesity, be not proud"

     “Obesity, be not proud” From the IrongeezerSays™ Series.By Tatjana and Cliff Eggink   Two thirds of the American public is either overweight or obese. Adults and kids alike are gaining pounds and suffering dire, life...

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    Facebook, Twitter, and Interviews

    Facebook, Twitter, and Interviews This week has been an extremely exciting one! I have met so many awesome people from Facebook and Twitter - that in itself is amazing for someone who is fairly new to this 'social networking' stuff. Facebook for me...

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    A New Life Journey…

    So off I went to Austria and Italy, and had a fabulous time. While in Austria we attended lectures at the University of Innsbruck and I found I loved being back in the classroom. That combined with all the workshops and programs I had been taking back...

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  • The Mushroom Affair

    Ever since I was a little kid, I could spot a hair on my plate. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see it if it was halfway buried under the food. They were usually from cats or dogs, since we always had some sort of menagerie running around the...

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  • Bill Shafer
    Reinvent Yourself

    Have you ever had one of those moments in life where you wake up and say, “I just can’t do this anymore”? Maybe it’s a relationship that just isn’t working. Or maybe it’s work that isn’t working. That’s what happened to me. 26 years, 8...

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    BOO!!!

    In celebration of Halloween which I still don’t quite understand, I pay homage to the many ways that people scare the crap out of others in order to receive pleasure...very disturbing.Our BFF, Sweet Pea, sent me a totally nondescript email link to a...

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  • Sassy
    Just Do It!!!!

         My life long awakining happened quite by accident. My mother lived with our family for nine years and was disabled. I was her care giver all of that time and also had a small child. I have to admit between my husband,son...

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  • The Skinny on Interesterified Oil

    I've always gotten along with kids. Years ago, before I became qualified to be considered of grandfather age, many of my girlfriends had children. I used to tell them things while driving along, like, "Do you see that apartment complex over there,...

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  • The Night I Screamed On Halloween

    Recently, I was telling my mother about my scariest Halloween moment. She questioned whether she would have let me venture out on my own at the tender age of 6. I was with a friend from the neighborhood and we were in the same class at school, so I...

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    Memories

     I am Missing  My friend Ruth Hamilton  I  still will keep her  alive for  her birthday and always, she will not be here on earth this year,  Ruth would have  been 110  this April 12, 2008 , But  we...

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    William Bell

    For Dr. William Bell, breaking one pole-vaulting world record wasn’t enough – so he broke 11 all at once!


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    Learning to Trust

    Trusting God is something I thought I understood, until.... depression smacked me down on my face.  I then realized I never really understood what it means to trust God or anyone for that matter.  I was surrounded by many friends, church...

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    Self Defense

    We’re coming up on the ONE-YEAR anniversary of our little faux pas at a hotel here in the A-Town that must remain nameless.  We vowed not to go back until a year had passed.  As a matter of fact, I offered to buy drinks for everyone on...

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  • A Fish Tale

    Because I have type 2 diabetes, I carry a blood glucose test kit with me, usually in the front left pocket of my pants. It has an outside pouch with a zipper that I can put a few things in, like lancets. That way, I can easily replace dull ones with new...

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    Worry, Worry, Worry!!

    I went to an ashram once many years ago.  I had to be there for a whole month in order to get a yoga teaching certificate.  At the end of our program, we would be tested, both with a written exam and then presenting an entire one-hour yoga class...

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