Postd by Margy For all but five years (as a stay-at-home mom), I have worked outside my home in a traditional office setting. I have always loved working, and enjoyed the meeting and being around people that an office environment provided me. Over the past five years, however, I found myself being pulled between [...]
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Posted by Paul I love hiking, and one of my favorite hiking locations is the Deer Mountain trail in the Colorado Rockies. Here’s why: A relatively easy six-mile round trip About a quarter of a mile gain in elevation Absolutely splendid panoramic views of the mountains and Estes Park valley. Drawbacks: A predominately southern exposure [...]
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Posted by Kris: Part II Here’s the second part of my series on Marc Freedman’s new book, Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life. In his closing chapters, Freedman posits many of his most practical points. Here’s a brief outline: There is absolutely no need to create labels, slogans [...]
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Posted by Kris: Part I Noted author Marc Freedman has recently published his newest book entitled, Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life. He opens with polar-opposite pictures that are designed to illustrate the potential impacts retiring Baby Boomers could have on society. One scenario envisions a swelling population of retired [...]
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Posted by BrunieThere is an interesting divergence of perspectives talked, written, and breathlessly shared in the press and other media these days about what Boomers reaching retirement age portends. The extremes on the continuum are pretty clear – disaster and budgetary implosion by (as quoted in The New Elders by David Schimke in Utne Reader) [...]
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