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Category Archives: Rules of Life/Lessons Learned

Walker Headlights

November 29, 2007 at 20:41

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Why didn’t someone think of this before? Lights on walkers may cut falls Forget driving in the dark — sometimes it’s dangerous just walking in the dark. As the population ages, medical teams are responding to more calls from people who have fallen in the night. Many are from older adults who toppled over their […]

Protecting Your Company Laptop

November 29, 2007 at 18:25

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If you travel with a company computer that carries a lot of personal data of other people, you would be well advised to listen to Internet security expert Bruce Schneier who recommends a whole disk encryption program that runs in the background. No one wants to be the schmuck who lost a disk filled with […]

Greatest moments in food history

November 20, 2007 at 10:37

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Dr. Helen gives some good advice for those for whom going home for the holidays is a bit of hell what with heated political discussions and what all. May I add that you might argue over the Greatest moments in food history instead for a lot less heat and a lot more fun. Hat tip  […]

“Unsuccessful Aging is Dying”

November 1, 2007 at 08:36

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Ronni Bennett over at Time Goes By has posted a two-part interview with Dr. William Thomas, a young geriatrician and author of What are Old People For? “What Are Old People For?: How Elders Will Save the World” (William H. Thomas) Here is one excerpt. We human beings live a long time after our reproductive […]

Defying zombiism, David Warren quit school at 16

October 25, 2007 at 09:43

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David Warren quit school at 16 and hit the road. In retrospect, it was the best personal decision I ever made, and I recommend it wholeheartedly to the young of today; at least, to those whose minds are not already imprisoned. Get out of that education “system” while you still can, and before it has […]

Beloved Professor delivers “Last Lecture”

September 20, 2007 at 10:14

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Jeffrey Zaslow writes A Beloved Professor Delivers The Lecture of a Lifetime in the Wall St. Journal.  Watch this  short video of Randy Pausch, a vibrant, handsome man who has only weeks or months to live, but can do one-handed pushups. They had come to see him give what was billed as his “last lecture.” […]

Life Lessons from the Army

August 13, 2007 at 07:45

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I love to collect people’s life lessons and some are better than others.  When the veteran who blogs anonymously at walterreed.blogspot posted his Ten Life Lessons the Army Taught him, he didn’t expect them to be so popular that Tim Rick, military correspondent for the  Washington Post would reprint them all, but that’s how I […]

“Laughter is simply how we connect”

July 23, 2007 at 19:22

Jill Fallon

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After reading What’s So Friggin’ Funny by Steven Johnson, a fascinating article, I think I want one of those Tickle Me Elmo dolls.    I’ve never seen them and they sound hilarious. Sometimes you need to “laugh and let go” of mental or emotional tensions.  Laughter feels great and does a body good. Saturday-Review editor […]

Free loaders

July 5, 2007 at 19:52

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I find this very disturbing, another example of a fraying social contract among citizens. Around 1 in 6 Americans Do Not Pay Their Taxes. This is evading taxes, not paying your fair share, not carrying your load.  And every single one of those evaders will have an excuse as to why the law does not […]

“He remembers everything that was going on around him.”

June 21, 2007 at 19:54

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I found the story of the ‘Living Corpse’ who woke up after a 19-year Coma, an inspiring one, a Rip Van Winkle tale of our time. Hats off to the wife who cared for him for 19 years at home with great love and devotion, changing his position every hour to prevent bedsores. “I would […]