My latest game invention - Who's Alive and Who's Not
(07, 08, 10)
I got the
Who's Alive and Who's Not idea from the web. There is a great website that provides this information so you can tell whether or not you are wasting your money sending Christmas cards to certain individuals.
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Joining the ranks of retirees - voluntary or otherwise?
(31, 07, 10)
Have you noticed? People seem to be joining the ranks of us retirees at unprecedented rates. Some prematurely.
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I've been getting maximum mileage out of maxims
(17, 07, 10)
I'm eternally grateful that even though I was a pretty decent hockey player, I never made the Toronto Maple Leafs because I don't think that I could take the constant embarrassment and ridicule.
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Service stations?
(10, 07, 10)
Some of you seniors might be in for a surprise this year as I was recently when it came time to renew my license, my automobile license that is...
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Our late friend Charles would have appreciated the irony
(03, 07, 10)
One of our colleagues suffered a massive heart attack in his garden, and passed away suddenly leaving us all in a state of distress.
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Nude hiker gives Swiss viewers something to yodel about: (26, 06, 10)
I wonder what's appropriate to say when one encounters a nude hiker. I guess it really doesn't matter as long as you maintain eye contact.
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The enemy would never figure out our bathroom breaks (19, 06, 10)
There are many criteria for service in the armed forces at present, but I would like to reflect on the issue of age. Maximum age now is 42 in the U.S. and 34 in Canada. An author I read thinks this is way too young and says they have the whole thing backwards.
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It should be a senior's right to have any name I want (12, 06, 10)
I've often coveted the seeming anonymity of a prison number, say 675488.
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I'm talking to the flowers - will they talk back? (05, 06, 10)
"Aren't you a pretty one!" I exclaimed to the peony and not "Bloom, damn you" or "If you do not behave, I will throw you into the compost bin."
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Niagara seniors need to campaign for 'the right to tinkle' too (29, 05, 10)
Howard Moscoe, a veteran Toronto councillor, campaigned for what he calls "the right to tinkle." With aging demographics, he argues that many seniors don't venture out for fear of finding themselves out of range of a toilet.
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Men's book club benched for the Canadiens series (22, 05, 10)
It's not easy to attend monthly meetings when you are retired. I find that I have less and less time to devote to frivolous meetings.
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When spousal arguments exceed "reasonable force" (15, 05, 10)
It all comes down to the fundamental question of what was proportionate in the moment....
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Turning to the great thinkers to achieve positive vibes (08, 05, 10)
"What goes up, must come down," sounds simple yet carries with it a depth of understanding that only stock brokers can appreciate.
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New typefaces for a new age of 'e-interactions' (01, 05, 10)
I've been starting to re-evaluate my typeface.....
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Baseball lingo 101 for your spouse (24, 04, 2010)
Prior to watching any game, I suggest that you first check the Internet for a rendition of Budd Abbott and Lou Costello's
Who's on First.
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Finding Eden (17, 04, 2010)
The first garden was created in a distant place named Eden, and in that garden, our two predecessors, Adam and Eve, had everything they desired at their disposal.
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Edward De Bono remarked that humor is the most significant activity of the human brain. Someone else said that if you don't use it, you lose it, and mother, who frequently managed to get in the last word,
advised that laughter was the best medicine, probably because we were poor and could not afford a doctor. To help keep our collective brain power intact as we age, I invite seniors to read some of the following articles that were printed during the past nine years in my St. Catharines Standard "Over 60" newspaper column entitled, "Retired, eh?"