I will, from time to time, post some basics of entertainment law here. There are three elements to a copyright notice:  1, the word copyright, or the c in the circle symbol; 2 your name, or the name of your company, and 3, the year you created the...

Wow. No one has ever written anything in this group! Well I guess I could do this. I haven't participated much in growing bolder but I've been impressed with what I've seen.Medical retirement and the discovery of magnetic bracelets launched us into a...

  Hello Everybody,   My coworker Anne Walsh died on May 28, 2008 just a few weeks ago. Life down at work has not been the same without her. She has worked at my company since I started in 2003. She passed away in a car accident on her...

Greetings Growing Bolder! I'm happy to tell you I just finished optioning my Kerouac in Florida book to Urban Myth productions in London. They're hoping to produce in to a film a screenplay based on it.. Basically an option means they pay you to take...

Pat Paciello I am sure that in these horrific economic times my primary fear is shared by many baby boomers. In my case, as my retirement funds vaporize, the pivotal question is whether I have enough money to continue my work-free Peter Pan...

When i get back a sleep report from our reading doctors it always suggest we talk about sleep hygeine.  Since most people have no clue what we mean when we state simply you need to work on yrou sleep hygeine I thought I would share a few thoughts...

Give Her Something to Smile About   Come up with creative ways to do something different for your baby boomer diva everyday.  Let her know you’re thinking about her throughout the day with an email or a phone call (leave a message if...

Today I have help coming to organize my office! I've reorganized it about six times and I can no longer do this on my own. Having a home office means the overall house needs to be presentable. My office is in the back of the house. I have the type of...

In the days before I had a big flower garden (which puts me roughly at just last summer), I hadn't a clue about what fun and suspense and celebration and even mourning could go into watching stuff grow.  Or not.  Up until then, my gardening...

Many years I sat down to write my goals for the year and resolutions. The word resolution by definition means to resolve something like a problem or it’s a decision to do something, something that hasn’t been done before. I also could mean...

  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. ...

 You see them on television and read about them in magazines.  They cost anywhere from $30 to a bed that cost $1000+ Do they really work?  Are they worth the money? Well it depends on what you are thinking of getting.  I will start...

    To go along with the marketing of “Learning Later, Living Greater,” we wanted to create a web site that would be the “go-to” site for information on lifelong learning for older adults.    Now, I...

   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...

I started writing LEAP because I wanted to learn what it feels like to do the next years well. People at this age tend to fall into three groups: those who are being forced out of their work and feel like Willy Loman, desperately trying to stay in the...

There are only two more weeks left to the year and the dreaded fear of the deductible has arisen.  This condition involves the realization that the new year not only brings resolutions and fresh commitments but a large financial goose egg known as...

Without giving out too many details, I've been doing some long overdue, work, on myself. I have been a pretty unemotional person, for way too long. Survival technique. I am no longer in need of this kind of technique. I need to revamp my way of thinking,...

One day late last year, I was perusing GrowingBolder, which is a website you may have heard of.  I stumbled across an article about a man who'd created an amatuer baseball league for adults, and decided to check out the league.  After weeks of...

In September 1957, Jack Kerouac's most famous book, "On the Road," made him a national sensation. Fans of his work might imagine him living in cultural bastions such as San Francisco's North Beach or Greenwich Village in New York City. In truth,...

With technology allowing us to get the information we want immediately, with a simple push of a button, it’s easy to expect fast results in every area of our life. Unfortunately, good health takes time. “When taking nutritional supplements,...

...is not only an old wives' tale, it's a delicious idea! I love apples, especially the tart kinds like Granny Smith and Fuji. I keep them in the fridge, so I can grab one for a quick snack whenever a craving hits.But this recipe I am about to share with...

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...

As you may have noticed in my status from time to time, I have been renovating my house for the past several months. I have advice for everyone who is looking to renovate...if you are doing more than one room, DO NOT live in the house during the process!...

I'm so depressed right now that I can't think straight. I have so many things to do, but can't concentrate to get stuff done. I am so unhappy and it's only day number six of the new year. I am hoping for a great 2009, but so far, it seems like a big let...

    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...

According to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 80% of baby boomers plan to work into their retirement years. Since the tragedy of September 11th, many Baby Boomers had no choice but to enter early retirements when their company faced...