Apr14

What to do when I’m 62

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What to do when I’m 62

What to do when I’m 62?

My daughter, who is 32, looks forward and thinks 62 is an age to retire.

Aunt Onie

My Aunt, who is 92, looks back on 62 as an age to kick up your heels and live it up. I think I will agree with My Aunt.  Here is Onie on what she would do if she were 62 again.  It is interesting to consider our ages from various perspectives.

Although just 100 years ago a person of the advanced age of 62 would have out lived the life expectancy by 15 years, today, we are just hitting our prime. Since my family history has very long life lines, I can look at 62 as truly middle age.

So what will I do now that I am 62?

Mar7

Consumer Economy and Baby Boomers

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Consumer Economy and Baby Boomers

Baby Boomers created the Consumer Economy

The Consumer Economy is based on Baby Boomer consumption.  Baby Boomers created this Consumer Economy and now that we are beginning to downsize, the whole thing is falling apart.  Business and Marketers have not kept up with our needs and therefore, what I want, what you want, what 80 billion people want we cannot find.  To revive the Consumer Economy and Baby Boomer purchases we need to create:

  1. I want a smaller home but with the conveniences and elegance found in larger homes
  2. I want clothes designed to look good on a mature body not a stick
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Mar2

iPhone Tips Add Emoticons

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iPhone Tips Add Emoticons

iPhone Tips Add Emoticons

IMG_iphoneemoticons

We heart you nana! Makes my heart sing

Here is an iphone tip to add emoticons in case you ever wanted to add some zing to your text messages.  We are talking about being able to add smiley faces and other emotions or symbols on your iphone messages – either in text or while typing email or even playing games?  Well there is a trick.

You can really say so much more in a iphone text when you add a simply fun face or other recognizable image thru emoticons. Say more with less! That is the thing that makes text messages work.

My granddaughter texted me instructions on how to add Emoticons so I put it into this little video for you. Once you have played around with this a couple of times you will feel like a pro and will start to speak french in restaurants even if you don’t know how! I did. Enjoy.

Feb8

The Scared is scared – A Movie by a 6 year old

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The Scared is scared – A Movie by a 6 year old

A 6 year old’s Fantasy and Advice turned into a Movie

 

A Movie by a 6 year old is magic!  When Bianca Giaever asked a six-year-old what the movie she was making for college should be and she turned that earful into a piece of simply magic.

The movie, called the Scared is scared, tells the tale of a bear, a mouse, swimming pools, sleepovers, friendship, pizza and life. It’s excitement, fear, joy and bewilderment wrapped up into a story full of heart and humor that only a six-year-old’s imagination could provide.  Mashable Read the rest of this entry →

Jan26

Making Food from Scratch

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Making Food from Scratch

Great Questions from Little Minds

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch,” Carl Sagan famously observed in Cosmos, “you must first invent the universe.” The questions children ask are often so simple, so basic, that they turn unwittingly yet profoundly philosophical so as to require “apple-pie-from-scratch” type of answers.

Making food from Scratch

RTW age 2.5

My daughter, aged 2.5 posed one such question to me.  How do you make Grape Juice?  Though it may sound innocent enough, my attempt to satisfy her with Concentrated juice resulted in a fit for the ages.  She was on the floor, screaming with uncontrollable outrage as only a 2 year old can.  So we went to the store to buy grapes to make grape juice.  When I chose the green grapes (seedless of course) she again went into an outrage.  However, since we were in a public place, I quickly redirected her attention and put the fear of spoiling her behind me.  “POORPOOL GRAPES”  she said over and over and was ecstatically gleeful when we found big juicy purple grapes.  In fact, the entire grocery store was aware of our find and just how wonderful these PoorPul Grapes were.

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