Tag Archives: demographics

Accounting for care: Life plans

PRESIDENTS DAY Last night, I started watching Jon Taylor’s  lecture about Harry Truman on C-SPAN3. I discovered that I could download an app that allowed me to continue listening, even as I fell asleep. Truman spent most of his life in Independence, Missouri; I’ve been to the Presidential Library there (thanks, Jane). Throughout his life, […]

Riding demographic tides

I failed. I forgot to pay our real estate tax. I didn’t show up for my haircut appointment. I transposed the times and days when Mom’s home health aide would arrive, so needlessly sent Spouse to a dicy medical appointment alone. These are just a few examples of my failures lately. A friend, who herself had […]