Collecting My Thoughts

Almost 50 years ago Dr. Robert Butler, a gerontologist, coined the word "ageism." I was in my 20s then and probably laughed at th...

Donna Butts is executive director of Generations United which according to her letter to President Obama in 2008 has 4 priority areas: ...

The double whammy of aging I've blogged about the verbs for death and dying used in obituaries, but I hadn't really thought about th...

The Emmys Primetime Emmy Awards “inexplicably attracted the franchise's smallest audience in its history. A mere 12.2 million viewers w...

It's OK to hit back if he's old Paris Hilton has a very clever comeback and is using her pretty face and McCain's celebrity ad ...

Knocking down a straw man Straw man n (ca. 1900) a weak or imaginery opposition (as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily con...

3431 More on early retirement Seems I was the only one who thought Sheryl McCarthy in the Forum section of USA Today was expecting too m...

3424 Too young to retire? Sheryl McCarthy in the Forum section of USA Today (1-31-07) writes about the woes of being a pushed-out, down-s...