Remember when snow was still around in grimy shrinking mounds, crocus and other bulbs popped their heads through the dormant soil and the ground felt like mush when you walked on it? That’s when the kids in my neighborhood went to the basement and got their baseball gloves and balls out of winter hibernation, because [...]
How old were you when you learned to ride a two-wheeler? I was about seven or eight when I mastered riding the rather small second-hand bike my dad got for me. It had no extras, not even a chain guard, and was repainted in a distinctive Chinese red. Aside from the color, the bike was [...]
The national debt has increased to more than $14 trillion dollars as of mid-February, 2011. This translates to about $125,000 per US household. Without serious spending cuts and major changes in the way government handles the money we entrust to it, future generations will drown in a sea of debt, which we created.
Those over 65 [...]
McDonald’s is under attack for more than its Big Mac. New Seniors have seen the rise of fast food throughout our lifetimes. We may not have liked seeing the demise of the mom and pop restaurants, but the golden arches have become part of the American way of life. Now, we won’t be able to [...]
“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.” These thoughts from D. Elton Trueblood – noted college chaplin and philosopher – epitomize the actions of today’s New Seniors.
Those of us born between 1930 [...]
