Are You the Author of Your Life?  Probably not.

  Author: The person who originated or gave existence to anything and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created. (Wikipedia) Last week, I finished an excellent book by NPR journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty “Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife.” One page received my personal trifecta treatment for importance and follow up […]

Aristotle and Your “Curve of Happiness”

Image by Couleur from Pixabay I hope you don’t think I have a big-word fetish.  Last week I dumped a doozy on you with “oligodencrocytes.”  Judging from the positive response and zero unsubscribes from last week, I’m sensing you have a tolerance level for an occasional esoteric linguistic trip. Assuming so, let’s go on another one. This time, […]

WARNING!  Retirement May Mess With Your Oligodencrocytes!

Oligo what? Hey, I didn’t know we had them, did you?   Yet another something in the “cytes” category roaming around our bodies. I found out I had oligodencrocytes as I was slogging through my second reading of a challenging book entitled “Deep Work; Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” by Georgetown University computer […]

A Life Lesson Learned from a Thomasville Chair

2019 contained a lost summer for my wife and me.  We decided to move from home-ownership to the rental world temporarily, in defiance of all conventional advice regarding balance sheet/net worth/equity/tax benefits, yada, yada, yada. For a couple of months, we battled the remorse of leaving a large comfortable home on the 10th fairway of […]

Best wishes for 2020!

Thanks for being a loyal subscriber and reader in 2019!   Wishing you the happiest of holiday seasons. Gary Allen Foster www.makeagingwork.com  

Why Your Free Time In Retirement Doesn’t Feel Right.

  What are the chances that the following statement would be found in any of a financial planner’s training manuals? “Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one’s work, to concentrate […]