Psst — some jobs are better than others. The type of job you hold determines how you feel about working. Some jobs just offer more and better benefits. The tasks associated with prestigious and...
Health & Well-Being
Your health is the most important thing. Yep… it’s an old, over-used and variously worded cliche’. But that doesn’t mean it ain’t true (although a few extra buck is not so bad, either). In this section we focus on all aspects of health — physical, mental, and psychological. From professionals in the various fields we’ll discuss what you should know and what you can do to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
The Keys To Retirement Success
Stay vigilant and keep motivated I’ve mentioned it in other articles, but it bears repeating — successful retirement is about re-building your life from the ground up, replacing the structure and...
Hearing Aids: Do’s and Certainly Don’ts
The more you know… Before we begin this next installment of our ‘Things You Should Know’, we just wanted to follow up on our last edition, ‘Glasses’. Some folks liked the piece and others, not...
How Schools Can Smother Education
It’s time to reset our priorities. Bill Wood Let’s follow up a bit on the issue of imagination and how children develop through thinking about things they’ve never seen or...
Is Imagination Necessary Today?
Yes, and we can help our children develop that skill. By Bill Wood I had a long lunchtime conversation with a young mother today about her child’s imagination; about her daughter’s...
Drifting Apart
And finding your way back. There are lots of reasons why couples might feel disconnected. Sometimes it springs from resentments and disappointments stored up over the course of a relationship. There...
Reducing Stress Naturally
Using music as therapy. “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” So offered William Congreve in the 17th Century, and he was right, more or less. Not...
Would You Like Your Partner to Change?
That might not be in your partner’s, or your own, self-interests. As the world isn’t perfect, we rarely find a partner who satisfies all of our criteria. They may have certain idiosyncrasies or...
Can Your Marriage Survive Retirement?
In retirement, couples have to cope with a more intrusive co-existence. How well you handle it can depend on your perspective.
Retirement 101: Maintaining Continuity
Bringing your stuff with you. It should be easy — stop working and go play. But it’s not. We live in a work-driven culture, and so work is in our DNA and retirement is antithetical to who we are...
