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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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    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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  • Elaine Beaubien
    Elaine Beaubien

    What if you could keep your day job while fulfilling your fantasies? Wisconsin professor Elaine Beaubien is doing exactly that.

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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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    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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  • 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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  • Irongeezer & Irongeezelle Eggink
    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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  • 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.

  • 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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    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
    Calling it Quits

    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...

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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 day in the life...

    Hello and good to 'see' you.  I wanted to introduce myself, give you a chance to see who I am and figure out if you really care what I have to say.  It's my first blog online but I do keep a journal (started book 2) of things that happen to me...

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  • Bernie - The Ultimate Florida Gators Fan!!!
    Brillo Pad Incident

      When I was 15, I gave all new meaning to the term “bad hair day.” What I had was a bad hair extravaganza. I was halfway into my first year of high school, and I longed for a new look – I had no idea how much of one I was about...

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    Grandson Flips Me The Bird

    Father's Day is on a lot of people's minds, and I just wanted to point out something that not a lot of people think about. See, to someone my age, and I'm 81, the best thing about Father's Day is that it led the way for me to become a grandfather. It...

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  • Bill Shafer
    Warning: This Site Isn't What You Think

    Proceed with caution. I know what I'm talking about. I've done my research. I've been to nearly every 50-plus nook and cranny of cyberspace and let me tell you… This one is way out of the ordinary. Here are some of the reasons that stand out right away....

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  • Susan Silver
    TV Writer Issues Call to Action

    The writer of TV classics like "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Bob Newhart Show" has issued a call to action for any TV viewer over 50.


  • Susan Silver
    TV Writer Issues Call to Action

    The writer of TV classics like "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Bob Newhart Show" has issued a call to action for any TV viewer over 50.


  • Bill Shafer
    Kudos for Growing Bolder

    The Growing Bolder Media Group received the prestigious Senior Vison Media Award for 2008, presented by the Florida Council on Aging. In just it’s first year online, GrowingBolder.com has presented a vision of the 50+ population unseen anywhere...

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    Conversations With a Priest

    Growing up in a very small town of about 800 people, your religion was part of your profile.  Mine happened to be Catholic – and still is.  However, a few years ago, I began to ask a lot of questions.  Being a catechist since the age...

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  • Bill Shafer
    We're Better Off Without Them!

    Can you believe all the celebrities who died in '07? I'm sure you saw the names. Every newspaper in the country ran a list back around new years of those who didn't make it out alive. Don't you hate that? It's enough to bring anybody down. Of course, it's...

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    A Giving Spirit

    Penny Jones wanted to make a difference in her life, her children's lives, and in her community. She didn't have a lot of time or a lot of money. What she did have was a lot of love, and that proved to be more than enough.

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    Camilla McGuinn: Roadie Report 30: McGuinn/McGuire

    Beaufort, SC It’s time for our “creative Saturday” moments and I had planned to write about the concerts and the trip to Tarrytown, NY and Natick, MA. I'm always wont to use the photographs I take on the road to inspire the memories to spring...

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  • Mel Tillis
    Country Superstar's Stuttering Nearly Upstaged Career

    For anyone who has ever felt self-conscious about being different, country music superstar Mel Tillis wants you to know that what you are isn't as important as who you are.


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  • Mark Rodriguez
    Quick Tips to Buying Wine

    Lots of friends ask me where or how to buy wine. Where is easy. It's how that's a little tricky out there. There are tons of groceries ( Publix in FL is top), Big Box Clubs ( Costco has the best variety there), Big Retailers ( in FL there is ABC, Wine...

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    James' update

    You could probably tell from the picture in my profile that I'm a pretty big guy, but I didn't use to be that way. When I was 21, I still weighed 135 pounds, but now at age 44, I have an update on my personal weight deal that I'd like to share with...

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  • Katy Cropped
    Eat This, Not That! A Book Review

    I am that girl.  I am the one watching you in the restaurant, ordering a double cheeseburger with fries and a coke.  You see me at the football game, staring at the child who is shoving down a chili dog, chasing it with nachos and tugging on...

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    Care Giving and Care RECEIVING!

    When it’s MY time to ‘receive’ care, I hope I find someone HALF as accommodating as SalGal and I have been to the Ancient One.  For my future caregiver, I do NOT expect the following: You...

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    So, when I lived with my last sweetheart a few years ago, we moved into a lovely home in a quaint, quiet neighborhood...or that’s the way we perceived it would be.  We thought it a skosh odd that our next-door neighbor’s house...

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  • Bill Shafer
    Aim That Super-Soaker

    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...

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  • Katy Cropped
    The Baseball Bet

    It started when Marc and I grabbed a seat -- the first time we'd rested in hours.  Marc, Jason and I were at the Major League Baseball draft, covering an amazing event.  Former player Dave Winfield helped organize a symbolic draft for surviving...

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    Boomers Heading to Space?

    It looks like the next person on the moon may be someone a little older than usual. The European Space Agency is searching for a man or woman 45 years old or older to send into space. Will it be you?



 

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