Your Second Half Should Be Filled with These Four-letter Words

      The second half of life (I’ll optimistically call it the 50-to-100 phase) is rife with both opportunity and challenge. It’s a time when social expectations expect us to begin to “wind down” rather than “rewind”; to “land” and not “take off”; to retire and not rewire; to retreat and not advance. It’s […]

Corporate Cooking May Be “Cooking Your Goose”

  I’m a long-time fan of Michael Pollan, author, journalist, food activist and professor of journalism at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. His books “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food” played a major role in raising my awareness of the unhealthy nature of our food industry. His clever, simple and straightforward book, […]

Are You a Fugitive From Yourself?

  “Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves — we can keep ourselves so busy, fill our lives with so many diversions, stuff our heads with so much knowledge, involve ourselves with so many people, and cover so much ground that we never have time to […]

Avoiding Retirement Chaos

    Wouldn’t it be terrible to find out that retirement can really suck? After all, you’ve shouldered through a grinding 30-40 year journey filled with marginally-motivating jobs and totally marginal bosses to get to this point. You’ve sacrificed most of your “today’s” for the “tomorrow” that your financial advisor’s constantly changing charts, graphs and […]

OK, Old-timer. Do Your Part to Combat Ageism.

    I suspect you caught what I just did with that headline.  I appealed for help in combating ageism by committing it. So easy to let words that are ageist slip off our tongues – like “old-timer.” We’ll use it to describe ourselves.  We’ll casually, playfully tag friends with that monicker not realizing we […]

Please Fall In Love with Dr. Michael Greger

  OK, I’m going to wander into new territory with this blog and try to shake some trees. You’re doctor may be killing you early! There I said it.  That’s new territory – and pretty radical new territory, agreed?  I don’t hang with any doctors so I’m not concerned about killing any relationships here. I […]