As an 82-year-old, I have a perspective on living conditions then and now because how I lived then is different from how I live now. I appreciate the differences. Then there were no digital devices on which to rely for communication, storage or photos, etc. Now there is a plethora of computers, chips and bytes,
Susanne Duijjvestein inspired this post with this quote: “Being dead is no excuse.” Susanne is a young, progressive undertaker/funeral director in Amsterdam. She ditched a successful career in banking to pursue her interest in our Western culture practices surrounding death, particularly how we deal with the end of life as we know it. Another of
There are five dimensions of human activity that are inextricably interrelated and interdependent. These are present regardless of our chronological age and they are not only important components in adult development, they are also factors that become even more critical in the aging process. Each one affects one or more of the others in ways
Connecting beliefs with values – I think I figured out why I have been having trouble with AI. It’s not because I don’t support it or believe in it. I know to some degree what it is and that it is an important part of the evolution of technology now and in the future. Robotics
Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” is a phrase attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the late nineteenth century. The phrase is actually a misquotation of the statement: “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs
The second definition of myth is “a widely held but false belief or idea.” The first definition has to do with a story that we tell to explain things we may not understand. Regardless of definitions, here’s why I believe most of the palaver about work life balance is either a false idea or a
