Socratic Method
Senior Stories

Socratic Method and Other Tortures

It was the last examination of my last year in law school. The class was Remedies which details what damages can be awarded in any successful civil lawsuit. Public Discourse: Is Civility Dead? I had finished the first two essay questions and still had two hours left. Then I put a blank sheet into my…

Favorite Senior Hobbies - Senior Man Working in Workshop
Senior Stories

Favorite Senior Hobbies: Up in Smoke

We all should have a hobby to keep us from fading into oblivion in our sunset years. I have had two and they both seemed to show up in smoke recently when I discovered a “Revised and Updated Edition” of a book first published in 1942. Time to Retire? Find a Senior Hobby! Actually, it…

Breaking-News-Newspaper
Senior Stories

Breaking News: No Longer Real News

I remember V-E Day and especially V-J Day because I was a nine-year-old with a paper route. The newspapers came out with “Extra” editions announcing the breaking news; as the war in Europe and Japan ended in 1945. That was real “Breaking News” unlike the overload of so-called “Breaking News” announcements we are inundated with…

Senior Hobby
Retirement Senior Stories

Time to Retire? Find a Senior Hobby!

My grandfather lived to age 96 — his sister to 104 — and never lacked for something to do. Activity was the key to their longevity. My grandfather loved to sell farms. He was making rural real estate deals right up to the end. My great-aunt took in boarding college students and gave them a…

Woodstock Weekend Clueless Sixties
Nostalgia Senior Stories

Woodstock Weekend: Clueless Sixties

In 1969, three hundred thousand people went to Woodstock. However, by 2017 seven million people remember being at Woodstock. The memories of baby boomers have transformed the sixties into this magical, mythical landscape where everyone was a hippie, everyone was a draft resister, everyone was a veteran, and everyone was at the forefront of sex,…

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