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Become a Docent in Retirement 28 Jun 2013 | 02:34 am
A docent is a person who leads guided tours at an art gallery, garden, museum, zoo or other venue where the visitors would benefit from having someone help them understand and appreciate what they vie...
Special for Father’s Day 15 Jun 2013 | 03:50 pm
Special for Father’s Day: In celebration of fatherhood, the Kindle edition of The Successful Retirement Guide will be available on Amazon for only 99 cents throughout Father’s Day week-end (and you d...
Special for Mother’s Day 9 May 2013 | 02:49 am
Special for Mother’s Day: In celebration of motherhood, the Kindle edition of The Successful Retirement Guide will be available on Amazon for only 99 cents throughout Mother’s Day week-end (and you d...
Close Encounter with a Namibian Rhino 24 Apr 2013 | 09:35 pm
It was our penultimate day in the country and we were out for a morning drive. We were moving at a leisurely pace in our open Range Rover along a straight and narrow forested road, admiring the abunda...
Memory in Retirement 1 Feb 2013 | 12:31 am
It is a fact: the older you get, there more there is to remember (if you are 60 it is at least three times as much as a 20 year old). To carry this heavy load, you need to work at it, and it is not t...
Positive Age Stereotyping 27 Dec 2012 | 11:14 pm
We have all heard that “we are what we eat.” It turns out “we are what we think” as well. A recent study on age on age stereotyping suggested to me that I should update a blog of several years ago on ...
Successful Retirement and The Meaning of Life VII 1 Nov 2012 | 07:43 pm
This my final (at least for now) post on this subject. I will attempt to pull together thousands of years of diverse thinking on the subject and distill what I think are the major themes that point t...
Successful Retirement and The Meaning of Life VI 13 Oct 2012 | 08:11 pm
This is one of several posts on The Meaning of Life. Over several posts I have looked at this topic from a variety of perspectives beginning with Calvin and Hobbes, then considering the contexts in wh...
Successful Retirement and the Meaning of Life V 25 Sep 2012 | 12:49 am
This is one of several posts on The Meaning of Life. My last two posts looked at some of the classical Western and Eastern philosophical/religious responses to the question: what is the meaning of lif...
Successful Retirement and The Meaning of Life IV – Classical Eastern Thought 21 Aug 2012 | 05:38 am
This is one of several posts on The Meaning of Life. My last post looked at some of the classical Western philosophical/religious responses to the question: what is the meaning of life? This post look...
