Retirees and workers have differing views of how to invest and draw income from their assets. Retirees typically share a few major issues in common. They don't like losses. They are afraid of running out of money. They are reluctant to learn new things or change their vision of what they should do with their money.
In 1998, Major League Baseball was in trouble and losing fans fast. In the wake of the ’94-’95 strike, the biggest strike ever in professional sports, fans were disillusioned and bitter. Then something happened that changed everything: the home run chase between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire.
You can learn a lot about life just by going to the grocery store. Have you ever noticed that milk and other necessities are located in the very back of the store? Forcing you to walk all the way through the store to get what may be the only item you need allows the store to attempt to sell some less-necessary items to you on your way to the dairy aisle and back.
Some people love global positioning systems, others avoid them like the plague, and I always wonder: Are the anti- GPS people men mostly? Map fans generally?
Televised football begins this week, which means a couple things: I won’t be getting around to that list of honey-do projects posted on the refrigerator anytime soon, and my cell phone will be someplace other than at my side for the next several weekends.
"Famous for 15 minutes” isn’t what it used to be. Andy Warhol is widely credited for envisioning our current media-soaked existence, way back in 1968. He was pretty much right, but he didn’t extrapolate far enough.
The Declaration of Independence, which Thomas Jefferson wrote when he was just 33, remains one of the world’s greatest documents on human rights and freedom, the foundational stone upon which we still stand. The sad irony is, if Jefferson were alive today, by the time he was “vetted,” he wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance at writing it.
Having a job that allows you to do meaningful work based on your talents and background may represent the highest good in society.
It says nothing about Barack Obama that 18 percent of respondents in a recent Pew survey believe the president is a Muslim. But it says plenty about the gullibility of a fifth of the American people, and the cynicism of some media players.
I remember in the ninth grade, when I was reading “Great Expectations” and trying to figure out exactly why Mrs. Haversham had been sitting there in her wedding dress for 20 years, there was one thing I wasn’t thinking — namely, “This would make a great interactive thrill ride!” But what did I know? I also predicted a great future for Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
While going out is rarely on the schedule these days, there’s a way to feel like we’re being social and having fun, even when budgets are tight. Stay home. Here are some tips for great times at home on the cheap.
The boy has gotten up twice tonight already, unable to sleep due to concerns that Cat Heaven and People Heaven are, in fact, entirely separate places. But before we discuss how I've managed to defuse the situation with some serious ninja-level Ghost-Cat Fathering Awesomeness, a little background.
Union workers were shocked when Mott's parent company — despite a profit of $555 million last year — demanded massive contract concessions.
Once upon a time, I received an iPod Shuffle as a gift. When I finally set it up a few months later, I was amazed at how easily I could carry around my favorite songs. I was the most technologically advanced (read: coolest) person in the family, and I relished the role.
My name is Elizabeth, and I’m addicted to J.J. Abrams.
It was a common theme among the reactions to the end of the recent chapter of the Rod Blagojevich saga: The one charge out of 24 that the former Illinois governor was convicted of was lying. The response: So he was found guilty of being a politician.
Leading Republicans reacted negatively to a White House statement that President. Obama prays daily with a small circle of Christian pastors, calling the announcement a blatant attempt to demonize the substantial percentage of Americans who believe, incorrectly, that Mr. Obama is Muslim.
I don't know if anyone has it worse than the 33 Chilean men who are trapped underground and aren't sure exactly when they will see daylight again. That's why I was so impressed at their reaction when the drill bit reached them. They were loudly singing the Chilean national anthem and thanking rescuers for not giving up on them.
You are not only the manager of your group, you’re also its leader, primary advocate, mood setter, chief bottle washer and of course its chief decision maker. That said, feel free to get input from your staff and/or other knowledgeable parties, but at the end of the day, the decision is yours and yours alone. In fact, if you try to be too nice and leave every decision to a department vote, you will be viewed as indecisive, weak, ineffective and an obstacle to getting things done.
Life purpose, unconditional love - it’s all been said before. But when a four-legged animal speaks, new insights are startling. “A Dog’s Purpose: A Novel for Humans,” by W. Bruce Cameron is an irresistible lesson in how to transform one’s heart energy from survival to service from the perspective of (wo)man’s best friend.
