When I saw the news about Dan Fogelberg's death at age 56 from prostrate cancer I felt a distinct sense of deja vu.
My dad was 56 when he died of prostrate cancer and that was twenty years ago this spring. There was not much hope for him by the time he was diagnosed, however we went to Canada and got experimental hormone treatments which gave him an extra 2 years of life.
The National Cancer Institute says that prostrate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in this country. I will never forget that right after my
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This is a guest post by David Mills author of the upcoming book “10,000 Days: A Call to Arms for the Baby Boom Generation.”
Have you cracked the code?
It’s a question Tom Brokaw asks over and over again in his new book, “Boom!Voices of the Sixties”
What the former NBC News anchor is referring to is figuring out the connection between what was happening in the 1960s in this country and what is happening now.
What changed? What did we learn? How does it translate to 21st century society?
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When I heard Caroline Kennedy was going to be on the cover of AARP magazine, I starting feeling a touch of nostalgia. You see, Caroline was my childhood friend.
She was a good friend of mine when her dad was president. We were about the same age and I invited her to all my tea parties. The tea parties took place in my parents basement in suburbia, New York – just outside of Buffalo.
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You have got to be kidding, The Wonder Butt Bra! A perfect retirement gift.
As the inventor explains;
"In today's society both women and men have become increasingly more concerned with their appearance. A variety of approaches are being taken to improve one's physical appearance, including cosmetic surgery, exercise, dieting, as well as enhancements to the body shape acquired through the wearing
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I just made a loan to someone in the developing world using a revolutionary new website called Kiva.
You can go to Kiva's website and lend to someone in the developing world who needs a loan for their business - like raising goats, selling vegetables at market or making bricks. Each loan has a picture of the entrepreneur, a description of their business and how they plan to use the loan so you know exactly how your money is being spent - and you get updates letting you know how the business is going.
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Every person should have the health care they need without going broke, or worse, bankrupt. Also, we should be able to feel secure about our financial future if we have worked hard all our life. Even if you are nowhere near retirement age you should be concerned about our health and financial crisis.
It's election time and I urge you to listen to the candidates, get to know where they stand and then vote for the candidate who you think will actually take action. It doesn't take a second act to do that much to help.
Perhaps you have seen the commercials on TV for the next election where children are asking us to vote for
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My daughter is living in Quito Ecuador and I often wonder why she chose to move so far away. What is so great about Ecuador? She graduated from college in Albany New York one week and the next week decided to move to Ecuador. It happened that fast, or at least it seemed like it happened so fast.
She had been to Ecuador before so she knew what she was getting into. She had lived there for a semester while she was in college, but moving there this time meant she was an adult and all on her own.
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I was excited and pleasantly surprised when I was invited to go to a John Fogarty concert this week. Going to the concert brought back some memories of my baby boomer childhood. Yes, when I was young, my sister and I had a Creedence Clearwater Revival album that we rocked to all the time.
John Fogarty came on stage singing "Good Golly Miss Molly" wearing a blue and white plaid flannel shirt. He looked
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If you ask a baby boomer contemplating retirement what they want to do when they retire, the word you will hear most often is "travel". The word "travel" may mean many different things. Whether they say travel because they want to visit grown children in other parts of the world, or they want to see more of the country in a RV or they just want to see the world, travel is still the number one word.
So what's the problem?
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