Longevity means we’ll experience many life-changing events
Last week, while remembering my father, as I often do, I was also reminded of the games we played when I was a kid. Like others, our family played all the board games such as checkers, chess, Monopoly and the rest. But, we also had...
Finishing well is listening, watching, engaging, teaching
During the past year, Mary Sue and I have attended more funerals than ever. It is all partof growing older. As we move through our bonus years, the fate that awaits each of uscomes to some of us, though most of us fight to delay...
Making Good Use of the Bonus Years
Unabridged from my Bonus Years column in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Capital, Annapolis, Maryland With America’s 78 million boomers turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 a day for the next 18 years, Bonus Years will tell stories of people, places and issues that challenge the...
Annapolitan dancer and choreographer just keeps on dancing
Unabridged from my Bonus Years column in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Capital, Annapolis, Maryland Some people change lanes when they come to their bonus years. Examples: The attorney shifts to volunteer work for a food bank. The accountant drives a school bus. The plumber reboots as...
Alloway’s 80-something women kept the home fires burning
Unabridged from my Bonus Years column in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Capital, Annapolis, Maryland Writer Ruth Stotter says, "… we're made of stories. When we die, that's what people remember, the stories of our lives and the stories that we told." Annapolis and Maryland now have...
Seniors use library card as a key to aging-in-place services
Unabridged from my Bonus Years column in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Capital, Annapolis, Maryland Harold Young spent 25 years teaching 5th and 6th graders in South County schools. "Retired" for 22 years, he is now completing 15 years in a bonus years career as a volunteer...
