We worked, we saved and we believed retirement could be a relatively stable period for us. Boy, were we wrong. The lose of value in our pension accounts, low returns on the investments we still had, home prices falling, freezing of Social Security benefits and severe cut backs in Medicare add up to fear of [...]
Fortunately, I have a 94 year old friend who is much like a surrogate father to me. Our relationship started while my dad was still alive. We became closer when dad passed on 5 years ago and have remained that way ever since. It’s a blessing to have an older person in your life to [...]
Nearly a quarter of the time Americans spend online is devoted to social networking, according to a recent Nielsen study. This represents a 43% increase in share-of-time spent for the biggest single online activity. Blogs are included in the popular social networking sector.
Online games are second, accounting for just over 10% of the users’ time. [...]
Starting later this year, the boomers turning 65 will be talked about in the media, not because of something they did but because of something that is happening to them: they are reaching retirement age. Baby boomers are newsworthy partly because of the size of this demographic and due to the non-conforming nature of this [...]
American citizens are hopping mad with government, in their cities, states and with the federal government in Washington. While 68% of those polled think the political class doesn’t care about what the public thinks, about the same number of politicians’ claim the country is on the right track. And, elected officials are held in such [...]
