Aging Without Frailty – A Series

Fred Bartlit really lit me up!! Fred’s story showed up in a recent Sunday issue of our local newspaper.  My wife found it, brought it to me and said: “This guy is singing your song!”. She was absolutely right.  Fred is an 86-year old West Point grad, former Army Ranger, founder and practicing attorney in […]

Seriously. We need to get real about meat.

Well, Nebraska is angry. That probably doesn’t tip your attention meter unless you are into college football and/or John Deere mega-tractors. Seems that Nebraska has its knickers in knots over people considering as meat anything other than muscle, gristle, and fat that has been extracted above four legs. Our recent Sunday paper Business Section gave […]

Think About It – You Can Slow or Accelerate Your Aging!

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Your telomeres are listening to you!!  And they may not like what they are hearing. OK, buffo – what’s a telomere? Think of that little plastic wrap at the end of a shoelace that keeps it from fraying.  You do wear laced shoes occasionally, don’t you?  Or have recently enough to remember […]

Retired? You May Be About to Waste the Most Productive, Fulfilling Time of Your Life?

Photo by Cristofer Jeschke on Unsplash Your financial planner just called you to a special meeting in his office to deliver some news.  It’s all good. You’ve hit your investment goals and are financially prepared to retire! You started  a diligent, leveraged savings plan at 28 and now, 35 years later and with his help […]

Retirement and the “No-Work” Danger Zone

Photo by Raúl Nájera on Unsplash Here’s a theory to ponder:  retirement can cause brain-rot! Brain rot?  Never heard of it?  Well, I hadn’t either – I kinda just made it up. I just wanted to get your attention. But the thought came to me after I stumbled across a YouTube featuring spiritual elder Rabbi Zalman Schachter  talking […]

Are Your Genetics Trapping Your Mindset?

Me:  So, John – how long do you expect to live? John:  Well, I’ve never been asked that question.  Probably mid-eighties. Me:  John, you’re 72 and healthy – why the mid-eighties? John:  Oh, genetics, I suppose.  My dad died at 63.  My mom was in her late eighties. Me:  Suppose I told you that we’ve […]