I’m alarmed by the number of times I am hearing or reading the term Narcissism each week. I’m not alarmed by the term itself. I’m alarmed by the use of the term as a putative weapon of war. Anyone who pays attention can attest that as a nation we often have a strong preference for collective notions/labels that lump ideas…
I keep thinking about a conversation I had with my friend Kathy. We’ve been friends, metaphorically speaking, since Jefferson was President. There isn’t much we don’t know about each other. Every few weeks we get on the phone and catch up about our kids, her mother (the only survivor among our parents), our work and our lives. During our…
The data is in, and it isn’t pretty. The vast majority of people over 50 don’t have sufficient retirement savings. On top of that, they don’t have enough time left to save their way out of trouble. Building enduring income streams is clearly a smart answer, as finance reporter Abby Hayes wrote in a recent piece called “4 Ways to…
“Should You Save Enough to Live to 100?” Liz Weston, writing in NerdWallet, recently posed this question. “First,” she wrote, “you were supposed to die at 85. Then 90. Now 95 and even 100 are common defaults when financial planners tell people how much to save for retirement. Except that’s nuts. In the U.S., the typical man at age 65…
SFO Airport/San Francisco. 3:00 am PDT. Three of my granddaughters (ages 7, 11, 14) and I are flying to the East Coast. Their 17-year-old sister is already at our house. Accustomed to flying together, the girls and I are a moving combination of jocular and somnambulant. We have a 5:00 a.m. departure with a connection to make in Denver. Ever…
When we’re really paying attention we don’t always see what we expect. Or sometimes we get blinding glimpses of the obvious, even about ourselves. I’ve noticed recently that I can be really stubborn. And I wonder whether under pressure I could be labeled a curmudgeon (a sexist and ageist term if there ever was one, the full equivalent of the…
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