Monthly Archives: April 2025
Retirement Age Scientists At A Crossroads
It used to be fun to go out to dinner with your departmental colleagues at the end of the semester, acknowledge that you were well past middle age, and then reaffirm your intention never to leave academia. The acknowledgement of old age ritual would take the form of passing around your cell phones to… Read More »
Understanding The Four Parts Of Medicare Without Quadrupling Your Stress
When you are what our work-obsessed society calls a working aged adult, you feel like you can never catch a break. You spend all your waking hours on your job and your gigs, only to find yourself another day older, with ageless content creators mocking you for being ugly and obsolete, even as they… Read More »
Neglect Of Vulnerable Seniors By Family Caregivers
The horrifying stories of vulnerable seniors abused and neglected by family caregivers are enough to make even the most committed procrastinator get started on his or her estate plan. Last year, Alton Cardwell was arrested after the death of his father Jimmy Cardwell, for whom the younger Cardwell was a primary caregiver, and now… Read More »