By Stu Whitley | Bio
I
had my own struggle with depression, brought about by a confluence of
events that seemed overwhelming. In spite of my rational training and
experience as a lawyer, I was completely disabled by my loss of
perspective. I could not see beyond the shadows of perceived (and real)
threats. A feeling of being trapped is the best way to describe the
sense of hopelessness and abandonment I was experiencing.
Fear
inspires the ‘fight or flight’ response, as we all know. But
I have been thinking a bit about ‘returns’ lately. I read a blog about ‘return on energy’ that pointed to the growing awareness of our choices and what is at stake when we make them as we age. Are we getting more out of life than we’re putting in? This kind of ‘capitalist’ metaphor got me thinking. Is life a transaction in which we need to measure the return as a basis for assessing our ‘life worth’?
I am a capitalist insofar as I believe in free enterprise. I don’t know
By Rick Fullerton | Bio
I’m in love (or at least infatuated) with an amazing young woman.
She is in her 20s, about the same age as my youngest daughter. I just
met her last Friday, and we are having lunch this week. Let me explain
how this unfolded and why it is so exciting!
For several years,
I have been an adjunct professor in the faculty of management at a
local university, where I teach graduate courses in human resources and
management skills. This work is very rewarding,
Nope, the name of this post is not a misspelling. I mean warning! I wonder…when does a ignoring a dire warning become denial? When does someone hearing, “You are drinking too much” become an alcoholic? As someone who has had my fair share of after work drinking and after dinner toasts, I can tell you that you never know you are in denial when you are in denial. If enough people suggest there may be a problem, then the only way to know if there is a problem is to assume they are right. If
By Lauren Selman | Bio
I
recently watched one of my favorite shows, "Sex in the City." This show
features four protagonists that constantly prove that 30 is the new 20
and uncovers their relationships in the city of New York. In this
particular episode, the older women were poignantly juxtaposed against
young starlettes to emphasis they’re "getting older". The plot
circulated around the question about aging that Carrie posed at the
The latest breakthroughs in genome technology will now be available to consumers, allowing them to trace their past in order to predict their future. Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, is launching 23andme today. The
web-based service, partially funded by Google, has set out to revolutionize how
we look at ourselves in reference to the past, present and future. For $999, consumers will get a complete DNA scan that reveals
By Shae Hadden | Bio
I’m
intrigued by the popularity of online life expectancy calculators. Like
reading tea leaves, tarot cards or astrological charts, many people
seem to be fascinated with the idea of predicting their future. This
compulsion to ‘know how much time we have’ is closely tied with a
desire to re-engineer our lives to reduce or eliminate aging
altogether. As if each of us has an expiry date that we can scan so we
can know when we’ll be used up!
The concept
By Stu Whitley | Bio
No voice divine the storm allay’d,
No light propitious shone;
When snatch’d from all effectual aid,
We perish’d, each alone:
But I beneath a rougher sea,
And whelm’d in deeper gulphs than he
-William Cowper, The Castaway
There
are probably more things at work in the human mind than we will ever
know. Too often the turmoil we confront in our daily lives gets the
better of
us, and we succumb to a depressed state for a day, a month, or
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) will be launching an intergenerational driver safety program in Tennessee in January 2008. The class is designed for teens to share with their grandparents or another person over 50. Teenagers can enrol for free; older persons for a $10 fee. There is no test to take to be accepted into the program. Participants will look
The International Council of Concerned Mediators (ICCF) is drafting a letter to US President Bush and Iranian President Ahmadinejad to be sent in January 2008. The letter will call for direct and good faith negotiations without preconditions between the USA and Iran to address outstanding issues such as security in Iraq, Iran’s nuclear development activities, and the Middle East peace process. The focus will be on bringing the importance of immediacy, procedural equity and ownership, accelerated