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It’s official: I’m deef
It’s official: I’m a deaf guy. Or ‘deef’ as I used to joke when I was trying everything I could conjure to avoid the reality of my (rather substantial) hearing loss. I spent a great deal of my time, energy, wasted effort and my phenomenally even-tempered wife’s patience attempting to make it otherwise.
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The “Grand” Economy: Implications For The Third-Third
During his travels in America in 1842, Charles Dickens practiced the craft of travel writing. When he returned to England, people asked for his impressions of America. Mr. Dickens said he was amazed at how well parents obeyed their children. Not much has changed in the intervening years.
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The Expat Life
Last month I traveled to Panama to explore and research the country as a possible retirement spot.
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Wise Landing
In December of 2005 I was on top of the world, in my career and otherwise. As a long time helicopter pilot, I’d landed my dream position, a posting to the island of Kauai, Hawaii’s ‘Garden Island,’ to fly tourists around its magical geography all day.
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Old guy meets technology; wrestling match ensues
No matter what direction or endeavor we choose for our new life vector, we’re confronted with tech challenges. It’s the intersection of geriatrics and electronics. Unless we decide to sit in our cave, or volunteer at all-night, candlelight readings of the classics, we need to immerse ourselves in technology and its challenges.
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Connectors
Barbara Sokol died three years ago, but her legacy lives on. Barbara lived her life as a connector, a woman who was always looking for ways to put people together, just to see what would happen. And when Barbara matched people up, good things always happened. She was my mentor for how to reinvent my life after age fifty, and she never even knew it.
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