Editor’s note: AnnArbor.com contributor Bob Faber writes occasionally columns about aging, politics and other matters. About almost everything, we have choices. We can ignore them or use them or abuse them — and that’s another choice that is ours to make. One of our choices is in the examination and ...
One of the intellectual benefits of aging is the ability to draw on experiences that had gone well or badly during our periods of growth, then to interpret our conclusions as universal truths. Such contrived insights are not a natural by-product of memories recorded and reexamined, but can effectively serve as a valuable guide for the future. And if judgments gained from those unsealed memories pass as wisdom, that may not be too far off the mark.
Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. Facing me on the wall of my office is the front page of the New York Times from Sunday, March 30, 2003, featuring a photograph of a group of American GIs just standing around — ...
Time magazine recently declared "the protester" as its "Person of the Year" for 2011, citing worldwide protests including the Occupy Wall Street movement. But the modern movement has nothing over the 1960s and '70s in Ann Arbor, Robert Faber says.
Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. The world, it is a'changing. We all know that. We’ve seen it ourselves and we had it verified by the lectures of Bob Dylan, but the speed and magnitude of the change is more dramatic ...
Now that we’ve grown older and can see things in the light of real life experiences, we seniors understand that the reality of politics is nothing like they taught us in school, so perhaps we should change some of the rules of the game.
Most seniors have learned a lot in the seven or eight decades they had spent building their futures, but some of those lessons no longer apply. It used to be that one good way of relieving our financial burdens, for example, was to work longer hours or change jobs, but that doesn’t work too well for those of us in our 80s. Even buying cheap start-up stock in some future “Yahoo” or “Google” is appealing, but being unable to reap the rewards of those investments for the 10 to 15 years it will take those companies to grow does tend to throw a damper on the project.
Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. It was Aesop, the ancient Teller of Tales, who first identified the Seven Stages of Man as childhood through old age, further noting that each stage is enlivened by anticipation of what comes next. That ...
Running a country that is attentive to the many needs of its diverse population and to all the varied interests that are necessary and responsible for reaching those goals -- accounting for the dreams and traditions that have guided us and sustained us since our founding more than two centuries ago -- is a job that is tougher than anything you can imagine.
Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. It is a well-known fact that physical exercise is one of the more valuable, more stimulating activities to be inflicted upon Man. Midday naps are good and eating between meals isn’t bad, but they cannot ...
Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. I was too young at the time of the Great Depression to understand what was happening, but it was clear even to my child’s mind that it was a universal calamity and that it was ...
I have always been a little lax on logic, relying instead on a combination of instinct and hope -- which is a great formula for disaster. I realize, for example, that investments should be based on a careful evaluation of the likelihood of success, or by balancing the estimated return against the risks...
Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. One of the notable features of aging is our tendency to examine the past with eyes firmly (if falsely) focused on “the good ol’ days” -- those questionably pleasurable and productive times of our youth. ...
A good mental workout -- whether bridge or chess or crossword puzzles or Sudoku or any other games to exercise the mind -- is now recognized as mentally stimulating and hugely effective in avoiding or delaying age-related dementia.
As youngsters we were generally so focused on ourselves, on the routine trivia of our emerging lives, that we had little time or interest in examining the conditions of our larger society. With age and maturity that started to change. For me the transformative moment was the bombing of Pearl ...
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