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A dream of eventual retirement. What does it mean?

October 8, 2015

In which my eyes are opened to the necessity, meaning, and value of so-called retirement and old age.

Rules for aging well are just aphorisms if they can’t be enforced

October 6, 2015

Too much information? That’s good, in a way. It means we are forced to be highly selective about the truckloads of advice that come our way about aging in style. Our BS detectors are always at the ready. I’m left cold by tips on improving my character. (Whaddya mean, ‘Be opportunistic?’) I am interested in practical tips, stuff I can do and […]

And so begins my boot camp for the bonus years

October 5, 2015

Below is the first post of my boot camp for the bonus years, in which I decided to bully myself into making 12 lifestyle changes in a single year, hoping to increase my health and happiness in old age and reduce my chances of getting dementia. This was my attempt to prepare for the bonus years that we never expected […]