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How Your Personality Type Can Determine Your Retirement Type
As an 87-year-old, I have my own theory about why some people retire happily and others get depressed or ill upon retirement, about why some people drive fast and like rollercoaster rides and horror movies, and others–like me–absolutely refuse to see anything violent and frightening and have always avoided scary rides in amusement parks…
How to Use Jokes, Irony and Sarcasm
A few days ago, I was standing at the ticket booth of a theater asking to have a couple of tickets reprinted because my friend had left them in his car. I tried to be funny and said to the ticket seller, “My stupid friend forgot his ticket. Could you please reprint them?” My friend…
An Octogenarian’s Adventures in Online Dating
That’s really scary, I said to Heather, my 46-year-old trainer. I don’t want to do this. Heather insisted, it was not about a new set of exercises that she was promoting, it was for me to get online on a dating site…
A New Look at the 7 Emotional States of Loss
Everyone deals with pain differently. What helps me is trying to understand it. When my husband died, the pain was so intense that I wondered whether I would survive it. I did survive and decided to learn and write about the pain of loss and the process of healing…
Avoiding the Clonal Effect
The ongoing diversity problem in the tech industry was brought to light recently by Google’s disclosure of its employment statistics (only 30 percent female and 2 percent African American). While some commenters blame the tech culture specifically…
A History of Complaints About Technology
I am in the age group that decries new technology. We are not only the un-wired generation, we are now becoming the un-wireless generation…