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Jan.07.2011 We're officially launched! January 7, 2011 http://newbrightlife.com The New Bright Life After Age 50 Education System teaches people how to create their best, possible lives (both now and in the future), while being skillful and adaptable each day. As Pioneer Advanced Learners, New Bright Life customers save months of precious time,...	May.03.2010 Hopes and Fears After 50 -as published in Living Out East and On the Bay http://www.livingouteast.com Mimi Fingers has gone on a 30 day fast. A news media fast: no TV, no newspapers, no news radio, no internet news. Our entire neighborhood (Palm Heights, elevation 14’) is talking about it. She says the reason is that she...
Mar.01.2010 When is Elderly? -as published in Living Out East and On the Bay http://www.livingouteast.com Mimi Fingers’ mother is visiting again. I know this because music appreciation keeps coming up as a topic of conversation among our neighbors. Just this morning I overheard part of a conversation at our front door...	Mar.01.2010 Let's Have a Show of Hands! -as published in Living Out East and On the Bay http://www.livingouteast.com Okay, let’s have a show of hands from those of you over 50! How many of us have noticed that gravity is not always our friend anymore? Body parts have gone south (just look down), and we have places we didn’t used...
Feb.15.2010 My Favorite Poem - Delta, by Adrienne Rich I’m someone who has always had intentions and usually an overall plan. My biography is that of a person for whom life sometimes went exactly according to plan, sometimes provided a variation on the plan, and fairly often delivered paths and outcomes so far distant from the plan that they took my...	Nov.24.2009 So I Said To Brown Eyes -as published in Living Out East and On the Bay http://www.livingouteast.com So I said to Brown Eyes, “Have you noticed our neighbors are aging a bit and some not all that gracefully?” "That," she said pointing at a gold framed wall object, “is a mirror. Take a good look in it...
Sep.24.2009 I Got To Sing For My Father -as published in Living Out East and On the Bay http://www.livingouteast.com I’ll have to admit my father was never that crazy about being a parent, although it was one of his assigned roles all those years. In fact, he periodically expressed a remarkably wistful interest in what his life...