I finally completed the book, How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free and one of the keys to optimizing happiness in retirement is to cultivate quality friendships with a few happy and interesting people. The book points out that quality is more important than quantity and that people who try to have too many friends will [...]
Archive for September 9th, 2009
True Friends
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Gilbert Neal (Part IV)
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When in Florida I was browsing around my Uncle Gilberts den while he was on the phone with my cousin David and came across an article written in the Akron Beacon Journal when Grampa retired from the Firestone Bank. Below are some excerpts of the article: During the decades that Mr. Neal was an executive of the bank [...]
Making Sure History Doesn’t Repeat Itself
Posted in Politics on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my goals in retirement was to read a book about each of the American Presidents because I love history. I was happy to find my task made much easier at the library when I stumbled upon the American President Series a compilation of books written by different authors about each of our presidents, with the exception of the [...]
U S Economy Gets a Lift From the Stimulus
Posted in Politics on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having secured a copy of the Wednesday, September 2, 2009 edition of the Wall Street Journal (see previous blog entry – Still Reading the Newspaper – Just Not Paying For It) for my flight home from Florida last week I was glad to see the stimulus which President Obama took so much heat over is working. [...]
Still Reading The Newspaper – Just Not Paying For It
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I have to admit I am a penny pincher when it comes to newspapers. Every few days while poolside at Bethel Lakes my neighbor Teresa will pass me her Columbus Dispatch when she is done reading it. Its often a jumbled mess and I have to reorganize it because she’s sort of a messy reader, but what the heck [...]
On The Eve Of The Speech
Posted in America, Politics, tagged America, Congress, Politics, President Obama on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is Camille Paglia’s typically thought-provoking and strongly worded take on the state of things, as Congress returns from its August of fear and prepares to hear President Obama’s latest address on healthcare reform.
