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Bolles, Leider team up for Chicago workshop

Two of the country’s best-known life-planning authors will co-lead a workshop in Chicago aimed at helping people think through their second acts. Richard N. Bolles, author of the best-selling book, What Color Is Your Parachute? and Richard Leider, veteran author, speaker and pioneer in life-work planning, will lead the May 29 - 30 event. It’s [...] [...more]

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Marc Freedman wants to abolish retirement as you know it

There’s no shortage of bad news about aging and retirement. Whether it’s ballooning Social Security and Medicare payments or the brain drain of millions of baby boomers leaving the workforce, the headlines all seem to focus on the increasing burdens of an aging population. There’s not much we can do about aging; we’re all doing it. [...] [...more]

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Adult ed options in Florida

Q: I retired to Lakeland, Florida seven years ago, and I am so surprised that even though we have many colleges in this area, none of them offer adult ed classes like I used to take in Fairfax, Virginia. I realize that there are probably limited resources for the colleges, but I think it could be a very [...] [...more]

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Brain fitness: Get out of the gym, into the classroom

If you’re over 50, you need exercise to stay fit-no disputing that. But what are you doing to keep your brain lean and mean? The concept of brain fitness has caught fire lately, with much of the attention focused on a new breed of software programs and games that claim to help older people maintain mental [...] [...more]

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