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How Personality Effects Your Retirement Spending! by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. According to a study recently published by The Journal of Psychology and Aging, this is a first look at how personality effects our retirement spending rather than focusing on the technical issues of retirement spending. Technical issues previously addressed in other studies have included Read more
A Legacy: Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge & COVID-19 by Lucy E.M. Black We are living in challenging and uncertain times. Many despair about those things that we are being asked to refrain from doing, and many of us are in self-imposed quarantine. But perhaps the current upset of all that is normal, can also provide Read more
Selflessness Will Deter COVID-19 by Michael J. Orr Yes, I said selflessness. COVID-19 will likely infect nearly all of us over the next few months, regardless of what we do. That is an unfortunate reality. With that in mind, and driven by relentless 24/7 media coverage, people have begun to panic. Let me state here Read more
How to Talk to Grandchildren About COVID, Cash and Calamity By Dr. Tracy E. Hill Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, teacher or anyone else who connects with children, it’s important to understand the best way to talk to kids about the issues facing our world. And we’re not just talking about COVID-19, but also the Read more
COVID-19 How to Avoid the Virus Malia Jones, Ph.D., MPH Public Health Specialist It is most likely that the world will see a tremendous increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the upcoming weeks. This is not because of a new pattern in the spread of the disease, but rather due to a major Read more
Who Do You Throw Off the Boat? By Lucy E.M. Black Years ago, I taught a management course that worked towards the development of leadership skills using a variety of strategies that emphasized trust, collaborative decision-making, and survival skills. One of the activities was the now-familiar “lifeboat exercise.” The premise was deceptively simple: you are Read more
Ms. Pac-Man: A Love Story by Peter Kravitz On my second date with Jennifer, in 1982, I defeated her in the arcade game Ms. Pac-Man. “That wasn’t fair,” she said. “Why?” I asked. “You practiced.” On our first date she had dexterously worked the lever and avoided the little monsters that gobble you up, leading Read more
Serendipity: A Love Story By Alice Adams Our eyes first met when neither of us was looking. I was sitting on my friend’s Ursula’s living room floor. We were surrounded by papers. Ursula was doing post-grad work for another law degree. I was editing her paper on “The Polluter Pays Principle.” We had been working Read more
Privacy From 3rd Party Resale by Tracy E. Hill Did you know that only 4% of apps geared to help people with cognitive decline actually protects their privacy from 3rd parties (American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 25,8, 2017)? According to a study by Dr. John Torous, 46% of the 72 apps he studied for patients Read more
