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My dog, Moon, is at the end of his life. I know this. I’ve known it for a while. But knowing it doesn’t make it easier, just more obvious. Like a storm on the horiz…

If you are shy and over 50, you already know that making friends doesn’t come easily. Not only have you probably spent most of your life finding it difficult t…

I think about my dad every day. Even though he passed away in 2007, there isn’t a day in which I don’t want to share something with him. He worked hard his whole l…

Driving Stick Is Obsolete I learned how to drive in our old VW bug. The car had no radio, hand-crank windows, and a four-speed manual transmission. I was pret…

The Census Has The Answers Want to know how many hours a week your grandmother or grandfather worked? Or if they identified as white, Negro, or Indian? Or whe…

A Glimpse Of Exquisite Handwriting I received a handwritten note in the mail the other day. It was from a childhood friend whose father had recently passed a…

It’s a weekday evening. My wife, Laurie, is out attending one of her graduate courses in early childhood development. I’m home tending to our sons, Peter a…

Have you ever reached a certain age and can’t believe you’re there? It seems like yesterday you’re young and dewy-eyed and in no time at all, you’re in the ‘…

“Father’s Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it’s the one day of the year that Brookstone does any bu…

Mother’s Day means lots of different things for different people, and at Manopause.com we know that a mother can be a multitude of things. This year,…

Words To Live By Like any other large organization, particularly a governmental organization, the United States Navy has more than its fair share of burea…

The cliche says that people our age start to lose touch. We don’t know what’s going on in the world. We don’t know the trends, and we sure d…

Missing The Days Of Quaint Quaint. I’m desperately waiting for the return of quaint. Quaint, as in being able to take a walk in the neighborhood without havi…