OUR ARCHIVES : June 2010

Keeping Yourself in the Will When Your Parent Has a New Love Interest

Here’s the situation: Your geezer dad or mom has a new attractive 30-something love interest. You can see your inheritance flying off to St. Tropez. Here are a few things you can do to be sure your name remains in the will with some dollar signs next to it. Hire a hit man. Craigslist is [...]

Senior Discount Please

My eyes are drawn to the word “free” like peanut to butter. But this article is not about free. It’s about free’s distant cousin, discount. Well, it’s actually discount’s older brother, senior discount. When I first became a geezer, I began noticing the words “senior discount.” Of course, I wasn’t interested. “I’m not really a [...]

Five Banned Words

There was a time, which is now, when there were seven words you absolutely could not say in any medium, except cable TV. To those must be added five more words, which have been banned from all media, advertising, and even cable TV. I am being allowed to use them here only because I have [...]