Have You Started Your Second-half Reinvention Yet?

  The January-February 2018 issue of the AARP Bulletin included a nine-page article entitled “Great Second Careers”  Sub-title:  “Good news:  You CAN Find Success, Security and Happiness After 50 With a New Job.” Not totally boring.  Kind of a band-wagon article.  An eclectic collection of stories of people who made late-life pivots to jobs or […]

Yippee!  Soon, a pill to replace your treadmill! 

      Folks, did you know that squooshy thing at your midriff we cover up with oversized blouses and untucked shirts is just plain, simple old white fat.  Well, you probably did, but for you Oakland Raiders fans (hey, I’m in Denver!!), it’s scientifically called white adipose tissue (WAT) and it stores surplus energy. […]

The “$400 Trillion Time Bomb” and “An Unnatural Act”

        Quartz, the digital global business news publication, recently published an article entitled “The world is sitting on a $400 trillion financial time bomb.” Solid fear-inducing stuff, this reporting.  Globally, we are going to be short on retirement savings by a mere $400 trillion (with a “t”) by 2050.  $137 trillion in the U.S. […]

On How To Become an “Audacious Ager”

I have a new favorite term for what I’m striving to be – an “audacious ager”. Aging is a pretty hot topic because so many of us are experiencing the unstoppable nature of it.  It seems we’re on a constant search for things to describe our denial of the eventuality.  Things like “purposeful aging”, “successful […]

Work Yourself to Death? Not a Bad Idea!

  George Burns was guilty of some really fabulous quotes, most of them quite funny, some deadly serious.  Many had to do with his advancing age (he died in 1996 at age 100).  Here are a few: Retire? I’m going to stay in show business until I’m the only one left. People are always asking […]

Newsflash!  Your Recruiter Practices Ageism!

  By Oxford Dictionary definition, “ageist” as a noun is “a person with ageist views.”  And “ageism” as a noun is “prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a person’s age.”  The recruiter(s) you are working within your job search are practicing ageism. There, I’ve said it.  I’ve been a recruiter for 16 ½ years […]