It wasn’t that long ago when where you banked reflected your social and financial position. The bank’s name or crest on your check conferred a certain status. White collar workers banked with institutions with the word private or trust in their name; those banks had grand pillars outside and vast marble lobbies inside. Blue collar workers gravitated to credit unions…
Jason Siko, writing about public education in The Futurist magazine, predicts that as students progress, they will be “allowed to specialize earlier and earlier (much like athletics today)—so much so that no one has a generalized diploma, only certificates of competencies in skills that the workforce demands.” What?! Do I want my grandchildren to get an education dedicated exclusively to…
I have a few new heroes—or to be grammatically precise, a few new heroines. Each demonstrates something I really admire: To live your life they way you choose, no matter what your chronological age or what cultural conventions dictate. Take a look at this video, a commercial for a British TV show starring women of a certain age who love…
Regardless of our resources, as grandparents we have the opportunity to nurture our grandchildren. We can read to them, play with them, and provide new experiences they wouldn’t otherwise have–even if we didn’t do the same for their parents when they were kids. Dr. George Vaillant, a pioneer in studying male adulthood, posted an article called Why Your Childhood Is…
Four years after the economic recovery began, most consumers are still closely watching their holiday gifting. They’re intending to spend less than usual — or nothing at all, according to an annual survey earlier this month. [Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel] Spending less for the holidays makes perfect sense when we’re still smarting from the recession. But it’s not just about money. It’s about…
My first order of business is to extend a special thanks to those of you who followed my New Bright Life site. Most of that content has been absorbed into my new eponymous website, which just launched. You’ll find many of my previous entries in the archives here, as well as new material in multiple formats and links to the…
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