Self-euthanasia? That’s a conversation starter, wouldn’t you say? I came across the term in a recent Fortune magazine article about mattresses. Well, actually, the article starts off talking about the severe sleep deficiency that exists in the developed world but morphs into a long commercial for luxury mattresses and new high-tech sleep aids. Who knew… Continue reading Are You Practicing Self-euthanasia?
Category: Health and Wellness
Time For a New Cultural Portal
“We either ease into age or we’re disrupted by age. I don’t like the fact that I’m 82, but I can’t fight it – it’s better that I am 82 than I didn’t make it to 82. I keep going. I’m not going to stop. I still go to work every day. If I… Continue reading Time For a New Cultural Portal
How To Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part Three
“ If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going.” Terry Pratchett, “I Shall Wear Midnight” I struggled this week to come up with meaningful content that would be a fitting and… Continue reading How To Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part Three
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… Continue reading Your Second Half Should Be Filled with These Four-letter Words
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,… Continue reading Corporate Cooking May Be “Cooking Your Goose”
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… Continue reading Are You a Fugitive From Yourself?
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… Continue reading OK, Old-timer. Do Your Part to Combat Ageism.
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… Continue reading Please Fall In Love with Dr. Michael Greger
The Dirty Dozen of Accelerated Aging
News alert!! You’re going to die. Get used to it! But don’t get so used to it that you make it happen faster than it needs to. One hundred years ago, we accepted our short life-spans as fate, God’s will. Until the last half-century or so, death was largely random and immutable. It was… Continue reading The Dirty Dozen of Accelerated Aging
On Climbing the Himalayas and Eating a Cobra’s Heart
Don’t you hate it when someone says or writes something that you wish you had said or written? The more I research to write, the more it happens to me. And it happened again today. I surfed into an article this morning by Jonathan Look entitled “The Magic of Leaving Your Comfort Zones in Retirement.” … Continue reading On Climbing the Himalayas and Eating a Cobra’s Heart