Blog Posts - work and retirement

March 09, 2017 By Flora Davis
While I was trawling the internet one day, I came across this comment on the blog of a jazz musician: “I’ve often joked that every musician’s secret fantasy is to die on the bandstand, at a ripe old age and after a really good solo, and that’s not too far from what I’d actually like to happen a long time from now.” Read more...

Think Old People Will Tank the Economy? That’s Just Plain Wrong

October 19, 2016 By Ashton Applewhite
Many economists agree that, as the number of boomers leaving the workforce swells, younger workers will shoulder ever-greater burdens. Social Security will be bankrupted by all those lazy old people! Medicare exhausted! These dire predictions of economic turmoil are biased, outdated and just plain wrong, and it was great to see a recent article in the New York Times, “Disproving Beliefs About the Economy and Aging,” take aim at them. Read more...

Fooling the Phone Company

August 31, 2016 By Flora Davis
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, to quote the 19th century French novelist, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Read more...

Retire? Never!

July 15, 2016 By Flora Davis
When I was in my 30s, a friend asked whether I was saving money for retirement. I laughed. As a single mother with two small children, I could barely keep my head above water financially. No, I told her, I had nothing saved. She asked how I’d manage when I stopped working. I had no brain cells to spare to think about my old age, which seemed unreal to me anyway. Read more...

What’s Missing from Marc Freedman’s Plan to Make the Most of Longer Lives?

November 08, 2015 By Ashton Applewhite
Growing old isn’t new. What’s new is how many people routinely do it. The institutions around us were created when lives were shorter, and the culture hasn’t had time to catch up. The way we respond to this demographic shift has critical social implications. Read more...

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

November 07, 2015 By Bob Bostock
While enduring the long and miserable winter of 2014-2015, my thoughts increasingly turned to getting out of New Jersey for someplace warm. A brief visit to Charleston, SC, in March—where I had to go out to buy some short-sleeved shirts—made me ask the question The Clash posed in 1982, “Should I stay or should I go?” Read more...

The Intern, 2015, USA, 121 min.

October 28, 2015 By Pete Croatto
The Intern is a Nancy Meyers movie, for sure—all sunny skies and characters with straight teeth living in Brooklyn brownstones straight from Architectural Digest. At first glance, it’s another one of Meyers’ puddle-deep salutes to woe among upwardly mobile seniors (It’s Complicated, Something’s Gotta Give). But the longer you stay with it, the more Meyers wins you over with her tale of two colleagues falling into a friendship. Of course, it helps to have Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway obliterating the artifice. Read more...

Thomas Wolfe Was Wrong!

August 14, 2014 By Bob Bostock
1 comment Who says you can’t go home again? At the age of 55, I found that while you may not be able return home, you can go to the House again. Read more...

Recalculating My Expiration Date

March 16, 2014 By Flora Davis
At 79, I’m old enough to understand that I’m not immortal. Put it this way: I don’t take out five-year magazine subscriptions, but I’m still willing to buy green bananas. Read more...

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