by William Seavey Although they are not in common usage, BC and AD refer to divisions of human history in years/centuries — BC being understood as Before Christ and AD Anno Domini, which is Latin for “in the year of our lord.” Some think AD means After Death. Which MIGHT…

Luckily I Didn’t Have Access to Guns. (Thats’ Me on the Left, Co-Winner of a Tennis Tournament in California) — by William Seavey Linda Lewis Griffith is a clinician who recently wrote an article (“Who Is Behind U.S. Mass Shootings — and How We Can Prevent Them from Happening?”) in The Tribune in my county in California on the statistics behind adolescent shooters (who are almost always male). It’s the…

by William Seavey The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, sent into orbit around the sun last Christmas, reveal the astounding complexities of a universe we can now see 13.8 billion years into the past. It is humbling to say the least. The images demonstrate mankind’s seemingly almost unlimited abilities to construct technologies that can physically leave the earth’s surface and perform capably, remotely and possibly even indefinitely millions of miles from us.

FOUR Practical Things You Can Do to Prevent Decline as You Get Older! — by William Seavey As a younger man I had an older mentor, “Wild” Bill Kaysing, who wrote books on how anyone (not just older people) could live life better and cheaper — in effect, escape the everyday rat race. One of his books (or articles) was “Get Bold, Not Old.” I always loved that phrase/message but now, at 75, I fail to really see how much bolder I can be, having already done some rather remarkable things during my life. They include hitchhiking across the entire…

How Two Midlifers Found Each Other and Forged the Near Perfect Marriage of 25+ Years by William Seavey Divorce need not be the end of relationship though it certainly is the termination of a marriage. Yet its long term negative effects can last years, possibly even a lifetime, unless good…

by William Seavey Robert Frost wrote the famous quotation about fences and neighbors and it’s a poignient one —if not always strictly true. Going back several years I noticed that the owner of the property on the south side of my large, forested lot in coastal California was neglecting the…

by William Seavey In grammar school in Pasadena, California I wasn’t a part of any “in crowd” but I WAS a good student. I remember walking home alone from the school grounds one afternoon and being threatened by a man who wanted to rape me. …

by William Seavey, “retirement guru” Retirement is simply what you make of it. There is no universally applied formula for “success” or “satisfaction”. But you can get ideas from a variety of sources including a great one listed below. 2. You may have more liquidable assets than you think to…

by William Seavey My wife and I have been in heated discussions about what the United States, especially, can do about Putin’s belligerence toward and likely conquest of Ukraine, along with possibly an attack eventually on nearby Baltic countries not aligned to NATO. My wife and I agree, as do…