I’m having trouble getting started. “Give me a snappy lead,” my editors have urged for years. “Your first sentence should yank the reader right into the story.” But when that story is your own obituary, coming up with that clever, catchy, come-hither opening line is daunting. On the plus side, I’m working with what we
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“If you don’t stop wasting, you’ll land me in the poorhouse!” was a phrase that many of us who were Depression babies grew up hearing. Poorhouses have been with us for hundreds of years – and many people have been forced to go there as a result of economic failures. They existed in almost every
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At 85, Jim Gullion still has ‘the moves’ honed from 70 seasons on a ballfield. Now he and other granddads are sharing what they know, including Jim’s fitness philosophy: Actions beats inaction every time.