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Amazing China! Secrets Revealed - Aug 10, 2007 - 6:56:50 PM
In 2004, Carolyn and I placed ourselves in the able hands of Autumn Song at China Professional Tours for three of the most fascinating, you could even say enchanting, weeks of our lives.

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Ashes to Ashes - Aug 10, 2007 - 6:53:48 PM
With the average cost of a funeral today about $6,500, not including plot and headstone, cremation at $500 or less is a bargain to die for. At least one crematory here in the Tampa Bay area charges only $345. Of course, you must pick up the

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Life is Short. Jump At it. - Aug 10, 2007 - 6:47:24 PM
My wife, Carolyn, and I are three miles up, falling, tumbling, soaring through space at 174 feet per second  120 mph or "terminal velocity" and all I can think of is: "Wow! I'm flying. I should have worn a jacket."

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The First Rule of Geezerdom - Aug 10, 2007 - 6:36:28 PM
I've learned there is one rule of senior living that's as immutable as gravity, God's Commandments, or Star Trek's Prime Directive. It's the First Rule of Geezerdom: Never ask, "How you doing?"

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Seniors in an African Paradise - Apr 28, 2007 - 9:41:57 AM
We’d heard hippos and baboons at night, maybe hyenas, too, and a bunch of “Who knows?” sounds. Here in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve on the Kenya-Tanzania border, it could be elephant, rhino, even lion. Whatever, it was extraordinary. And that’s exactly why we’d come to Africa. Up before dawn, showered, and dressed in our safariest of outfits, Carolyn and I downed coffee and cookies (before the monkeys got to them), closed the tent, and crossed the shaky rope footbridge to our Land Rover and Sammy, our Maasai warrior driver, safari guide, and soon to be good friend.

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Funny, I Don’t Remember Being Absent Minded - Apr 13, 2007 - 8:03:13 PM

Remember how you use to make fun of older folks' absent-mindedness? When Aunt Sue forgot where she'd left her house keys? The day that your dad took the train home from work, forgetting that he'd driven to the office that morning? That time Uncle George left his teeth in the Congress Hotel's men's room? ..... It ain't funny anymore.

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Remember When Service Stations Gave Service - Mar 31, 2007 - 5:24:16 AM
What a quaint concept! In this day of $2-a-gallon gas, imagine getting actual service at a service station. Today, it's as bizarre a notion to anyone under 40 as a gentleman's tipping his hat to a lady. Yet, 40 years ago, both were part of everyday America. Here's what happened.

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The Last Oldsmobile - Mar 31, 2007 - 4:11:59 AM
Many of us lost a dear friend on April 29, 2004, as the final Oldsmobile rolled off the assembly line. The oldest automotive brand name in US history died at age 106. What are your Olds memories? I share some of mine.

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When Drugstores, Were Drugstores - Mar 31, 2007 - 4:04:22 AM
If you grew up when neighborhood drugstores sold little but medicine and sodas, when prescriptions cost 67 cents, and when Lime Rickeys, Green River, Lydia Pinkhams and Hadacol were “the mostest,” this column’s for you.