Tending to the future of our community is a “worthwhile thing”
Eddie Sutton is 79 years old. Many in their bonus years will remember Sutton as the first basketball coach to lead four Division I schools to the NCAA finals, including two to the Final Four: Arkansas in 1978 and Oklahoma State, Sutton's alma mater, in...
Friendship is important foundation for successful aging
Friends matter – not the least in your bonus years and not the least for women. Back in 2010, Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow published "The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship," a New York Times bestseller. "The Girls…" is an inspiring...
It’s never too late to be what you might have been
Living as a stranger in a foreign land is a great privilege. It is also one I enjoyed during a career that included a lot of time living, working and traveling outside the United States — in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. Living and...
It’s love and marriage, not the horse and carriage, that count
Unabridged from my Bonus Years column in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Capital, Annapolis, Maryland The message from nearly a dozen readers who emailed me last week was loud and clear: I should have explained my four-month absence instead of just showing up last Sunday. The clearest...
Important life lessons spring from overcoming disabilities
Unabridged from my Bonus Years column in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Capital, Annapolis, Maryland Perspective. That's one of the advantages of the bonus years. As you pass through your late 50s and then into the 60s and 70s and beyond, you are able to take a...
Retiring boomers to inherit trillions and will leave even more
Unabridged from my Bonus Years column in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Capital, Annapolis, Maryland. Hello 2015. Presumably we've all made our resolutions and, undoubtedly, we've already broken some. That's not cynicism. That's reality. Many other realities will become clearer in 2015. I'm not thinking of old...
