Category: Musing

Apparently, just having old people hang around was not a good thing. Mary Lou Weisman again, says that in the beginning retirement had not been invented. I get that. From today’s point of view, you wouldn’t think that this is something that NEEDS inventing, would you. In 2011 we are probably more sanitized regarding the…

According to Mary-Lou Weisman,  My (Middle Aged) Baby Book, writing in a New York Time article, March 21, 1999, it was a physician named William Osler, who, at John Hopkins Hospital where he had been physician-in-chief, said, in 1906,  that workers between 25 and 40 were in the ’15 golden years of plenty’ and,  that…

The historian in me wants to, no needs to know where all this retirement stuff comes from. I feel more grounded in the history of something. If it changes or has changed, I’m the person in the back of the room asking “Why?” And, because I think of retirement as more ‘new’, than around for…

So. Retirement. Everybody tries to do it. But how long has it been around? Well, a little Googling and it seems that retirement before the mid 1800’s was more or less working until you no longer could and then living with your kids. That’s if you lived ‘below the salt’ as they say. And, it…

One of the hardest things about a blog is why. Why would anyone write their thoughts outloud for everyone to read, although, some people do have better thoughts than others. 🙂  Why would I live my life on a website? So. I guess the best thing is to find a reason to blog. And I…