Category Archives: Aging

Walk Like a Man; It’s in Your Genes

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Administrator

Women walk faster than men. It’s true. I’ve been doing a lot of walking lately, thanks to a pair of cartilage-depreciated knees earned from years of jogging with an oversized load. Walking and other forms of exercise are helping melt … Continue reading →

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Bit of Technology Means Weight and See

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Administrator

I am on a diet. Dieting is not losing weight, although modern definitions have come to include that as a meaning. A diet is simply the food you eat. So dieting literally means eating stuff. That does not include eating … Continue reading →

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Dying to Write This? Not Exactly

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Administrator

Death may seem an odd subject as I write this between Christmas and New Year’s Day—a season of birth and renewal— but in remembering we keep those alive who have passed on. My father, on March 28, was among the … Continue reading →

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Still Writing after All These Years

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Administrator

I usually post something new in this space at the beginning of the week—generally Sunday or Monday—and I apologize for my tardiness. Got tied down with deadline projects on the copywriting front, and that’s where I collect my meager earnings. … Continue reading →

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After the Greatest Come the Babied

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Administrator

I’m not so sure I like being a Baby Boomer, but I can’t do much about it. Considering that the age group preceding us is known collectively as the Greatest Generation, it seems to me that by comparison the Baby … Continue reading →

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Trying to Find a Niche to Scratch

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Administrator

Hey, I just got back to the chilly north from a copywriting boot camp in hot and humid Florida. I chose to drive 1,200 miles each way, which made the transition less traumatic. There are few people in this world … Continue reading →

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It’s an Awesome—and Extreme—World

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Administrator

SkillUnlimited defies quantification. It is unlimited and measureless, setting no limits and eschewing hyperbole. Deleting the space between the two words was no accident. As for the Skill part, that’s in the limited mind of the beholder. I’m here to … Continue reading →

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Every Generation Requires Many Voices

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Administrator

I started these essays barely a year ago with something of a theme. I was going to be a booming voice for the Boomers. Boomers, according to the accepted definition, are those of us born between 1946 and 1964. I’m … Continue reading →

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Facing Mortality and Learning About Life

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Administrator

You learn to appreciate your life, as fleeting as it may be, for those precious moments of human contact. That has been particularly poignant in this year of my life —2011— with the death of my father in the spring … Continue reading →

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Info, Knowledge and Attention Spans

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Administrator

Has anybody seen my attention span? I never had much of it, but what I had is slipping away. I could blame it on the aging process, but I look around and it seems to be happening to everyone, no … Continue reading →

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