People claim their early adulthood, 18 to 39, as the best years of their lives, according to a recent Rasmussen survey. When asked to rate their own life today, 61% say it is good to excellent, although this is seven percentage points lower than six month ago. Whatever the age group, from 18 to over [...]
New Seniors, those born between 1930 and 1945, have had a good run. We’re a positive lot and expect life will be even more rewarding to the end and beyond. As life continues to expand, so do our horizons, spheres of influence and the opportunities to be of service. Yet, with the state of the [...]
That’s a pretty heavy title for this pre-boomer blog, but a conversation with a younger friend of mine prompted this writing. I am not schooled in theology and have not been part of organized religion or the church of my youth for many years. However, I do believe in God and try to live my [...]
For the past couple of decades, Americans equated being rich with how much stuff they owned and the size of their financial portfolio. With the economic downturn, many of us had to rethink what was important and place our faith in more than the almighty dollar. Because pre-boomers experienced dire times when we were young, [...]
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness –“ this famous
phrase from the Declaration of Independence is the corner stone on which our nation was built. So what [...]
