Life Done Right™

Are you a sub-segment of a demographic group that uses the popcorn setting on your microwave to reheat a bowl of soup? Not sure what I’m talking about? Neither are most businesses that produce consumer products. Deloitte & Touche has produced a number of Insight podcasts that focus on the senior population and how business [...]

If I slowly said the names of ten states in random order, do you think you’d be able to name them back from memory in proper order? I suspect most people would fail. Their minds would wonder; they would throw up their hands and say, “What difference does it make? It’s just a random test [...]

A funny public service announcement advising those over 45 to get a colonscopy.
According the Colon Cancer Alliance:

Every 4 minutes, a person in the U.S. is diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer.
Every 9 minutes, someone dies of the disease.
Colorectal cancer is highly preventable and treatable. Yet it is the nation’s second leading cancer killer. The [...]

© Reuters
US Vice President Dick Cheney speaks on Retirement Savings at the Willard Hotel in Washington March 2, 2006. The martians are beaming us a signal of the future. But who will clean up the mess long after he’s gone?

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, fresh off winning an Oscar for Capote, has chosen his next film project. It’s called The Savages and will co-star Laura Linney. The story is about how the two of them play siblings who “care for their ailing and estranged elderly father.” Note the key word in this decription: estranged.
Ah, the [...]

Imagine you have a daughter. Now picture her rummaging through your personal journals and letters after you die, in order to piece together the internal life you lived that, for the most part, was out of her view. Does it make you want to burn your house down before you enter the nursing home? If [...]

Congratulations! You have been invited to the Henrickson’s wedding taking place on HBO under the party name of Big Love.
Before you attend, however, take a good look at the three women below. Do you see yourself in one of them? Do identify with a face, a hairstyle, or a style of dress? Then [...]

Nothing like waking up to the great pianist Vladimir Horowitz playing Bach-Busoni’s Chorale in G Minor in the intimacy of his living room.

© 2006 Christopher Peterson
It’s nice to see our President gets the respect he deserves from his fellow citizens. This sticker was snapped in Venice, California along Abbott Kinney Boulevard.

When artists have too much time on their hands, rather than smoke a cigarette, they use those hands to put together a funny video, complete with a revolving chalkboard. Are you married to a school teacher who doesn’t know how to leave the job in the classroom?

It’s not easy living in a haunted house. Strange noises come and go. Stairs creak. Doors slam. Voices whisper. Mirrors reflect apparitions that suddenly disappear. You might even think of renting the movie Ghostbusters just to remind yourself that it’s all a fantasy. But what if the mysterious happenings don’t go away? What if they [...]

When you run out of money in your checking account, one of two things can happen: your checks bounce or you have overdraft protection. When the government runs out of money, they hit up the civil service pension fund. Isn’t it nice to know we live in a country that reflects our own faults? I’m [...]

Drilling a hole in the wall so you can mount a picture frame should be easy, right? You plug the drill in, figure out the right bit size, and then pull the trigger. Watch this old home moment of frustration that finally ends with success. Moral: Persistence is the key note.

The cost of staying young requires more than a youthful attitude these days; it requires emptying your checking account as if you were on a bender at the casino, thinking I know that winning hand is coming my way.
If you want to go to the moon, call NASA. If you want to sound like you’re [...]

As a kid, mom usually played doctor whenever you got sick. Runny nose? Mom held a kleenex and said “blow.” Throwing up? Mom drove to school, picked you up, and brought you home to bed (only suffer the flu herself days later). The home remedies were endless in the face of a miserable child’s face.
Growing [...]

There was a time when people fled the city for the suburbs. Some even called it urban white flight. The big bad wolf at the door was crime and a healthy dose of racism. Lately, though, the city has cleaned up its act and people are not only returning for the culture, they’re also staying [...]

It’s an oldy but goody as they saying goes, although in this case, they may be referring to the company Good Vibrations (and we are NOT talking about a Beach Boys’ song here).
Having your mum stay overnight is always a treat. She gets to nitpick your life while she roams around your kitchen, which, [...]

If Willy Wonka checked into the Peninsula Hotel on a Friday or Saturday night and visited the lobby, he’d probably be overwhelmed by all the guests standing in line at the decadent Chocolate Bar. None, I suspect, would allow him to cut the line, though. Chocolate will do that to the mind.
Apparently serving up [...]

Fidelity Investments has some depressing news. Couples 65 and over will need a minimum of $200,000 to pay for basic medical coverage. Note that word, “basic.” That probably refers to a person who never gets sick, except for an occasional cold, and lives a fairly affluent life. For the “rest” of retirees, you better buy [...]