OUR ARCHIVES : June 2009

Hangin’ at the Hospital

“Retail isn’t an entirely untried idea in health care. In Texas, Medical City Dallas has been mingling retail on its hospital campus for 30 years and currently has 21 tenants that include a bank, dry cleaners and barbecue stand.” See PDF link.  We geezers only visit hospitals if we need them.  Like for those minor [...]

How To Be a Successful Older Criminal

Remember the 1979 movie Going in Style with George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg? Basically, the plot revolved around three geezers deciding to organize a bank robbery. Times have caught up with the movie – at least in Japan. See this article in the Japan Times. There, people over 65 are now committing more [...]

Exotic Travel, Yes — Health Talk, No

Yes, Geezers like to travel. And I don’t mean from the recliner to the refrigerator. Or from watching C-Span to the computer to write that idiot Congressman an email of indignation. Many of us, whose knees are still willing, are taking to the back roads. And, I don’t’ mean the roads that parallel the Interstate. [...]