Hopeful Romantics

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Increasingly, I have listened to my Boomer friends tell me that  the economic meltdown has caused a serious decline in their pensions funds and portfolios.   The standard refrain is, “I’ll never be able to retire.”   Some are joking, or trying to put a good face on a rotten time for a Recession, and some are [...]

It is disconcerting to say the least when your friends around you start to die.   Suddenly, you realize you have reached an age when death comes regularly if not yet often.   You are struck by its reality, its finality.   You are struck by your own sense of mortality.
I am not at the age when you [...]