My first job was as a delivery boy for a family-owned, neighborhood dry cleaning store. I was eleven years old and they paid me $2 a week. (You heard me right – a week.) I would come to work after school and deliver dry-cleaning around the neighborhood until around five-o-clock in the afternoon. But they …more

Like many of the boomer generation, I had thought about volunteering with the Peace Corps after graduating from college in 1972 but opted to get married and have a family instead. I also worked in my career as a Public Health Nutritionist until 2009. When my husband died suddenly in 2007 I had to ask …more

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There are a number of people edging towards retirement, wondering what they will do on the other side of the employment valley. At first, that seems like a silly question. Why? You will sleep in! Travel! Volunteer! Spend more time with the kids and grand-kids! Those goals are well and noble and rightly deserved. We …more

For many of us, approaching retirement after years working in Corporate America makes us yearn for doing our own thing. As boomers, we’re torn. Traditional retirement looms out there, but really isn’t for us. A backbreaking sprint of 30 plus years to suddenly stop and do nothing seems dumb. The thought of moving south, playing …more

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Seniors are invaluable volunteers in public school reading programs. As a reading specialist in a public school where 95% of our students qualify for free or reduced lunch, I’ve had the good fortune to work with volunteers through United Way’s Schools of Hope program. The bond that forms between seniors and young students is amazing …more