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BY Tom Lashnits
Business
Retirees are not worried about money. We are worried about contracting COVID-19. Our children are not worried about COVID-19. They are worried about mone…
Author: Tom Lashnits
Tom Lashnits spent 40 years in New York book and magazine publishing before retiring to Bucks County, PA, in 2017. He now volunteers in the school system, produces the baby boomer blog Sightings Over Sixty . . . and is just starting to chase after grandchildren.
BY Tom Lashnits
Entertainment
Stories about the status of Baby Boomers like the one in today’s NY Times leave me cold. Who cares that the first boomers are turning 65? It doesn̵…
BY Tom Lashnits
Life
We held several Zoom meetings with family and friends over the Thanksgiving holiday. We talked about children and grandchildren and other usual things, b…
BY Tom Lashnits
Health
It happened to me about three weeks ago. I was on the golf course. It had rained the day before, but now the sun was shining, with temperatures in the near-perf…
BY Tom Lashnits
Give
One silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic is that air pollution levels have gone down, not just around metropolitan areas but throughout the country R…
BY Tom Lashnits
Humor
I don’t mean to offend anyone with the following joke. It’s meant as nothing but comic relief. And just so you know, I don’t have anythin…
BY Tom Lashnits
Humor
Apparently I’ve got my curmudgeon on today. But it’s not my fault. The blame goes to the new switch on the kitchen fan. I turned off the ceiling f…
BY Tom Lashnits
Health
I read an article in The New Yorker called Why We Can’t Tell the Truth About Aging by Arthur Krystal. The writer is a 71-year-old New York…
BY Tom Lashnits
Business
Harland David Sanders was born on a farm in Indiana. His father died when he was a child, and his mother went to work in a cannery, so the young boy helped out wit…
BY Tom Lashnits
Entertainment
Steve McQueen once appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated with his motorcycle. He was an ex-con and former Marine. And he had three wives. The first was…
