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What We're Following Today October 22, 2019
When a Child Is Concerned About Parent’s Spending Habits This is an interesting piece from the NY Times Magazine. While the story is...

Brian Sherwood
Oct 22, 20192 min read


What We're Following Today October 16, 2019
How Much Do We Need to Be Saving For Retirement At Different Life Stages? Sometimes you may be wondering what you need, but other times...

Brian Sherwood
Oct 16, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today October 11, 2019
Financial Literacy Lagging - Even More Evidence We’ve posted a number of articles talking about financial literacy over the last few...

Brian Sherwood
Oct 11, 20192 min read


What We're Following Today October 9, 2019
Ellen’s Dallas Cowboys Day With George Bush It was buzzing around the internet yesterday that Ellen Degeneres was sitting next to George...

Brian Sherwood
Oct 9, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today October 8, 2019
Dementia Care Coordination Challenge Award Winners Announced This post on the National Institute of Health’s website announced winners in...

Brian Sherwood
Oct 8, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today October 7, 2019
Intensive Parenting This article in The NY Times calls out today’s American trend of “intensive” parenting where parents are more...

Brian Sherwood
Oct 7, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today October 2, 2019
One of the Best Businesses I Have Ever Seen A friend of mine sent me this Today Show piece about a woman and her business that she...

Brian Sherwood
Oct 2, 20192 min read


What We're Following Today September 26, 2019
Did You Know Our Conference is Saturday? If you haven’t heard Chris Salem speak, he is opening us up at 9:00 AM on Saturday September 28...

Brian Sherwood
Sep 26, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today September 24, 2019
Where Can We Get Unbiased Views On The Political Candidates for President I often feel like I am being told how to think through...

Brian Sherwood
Sep 24, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today September 23, 2019
Simple Engineering To Meet Demands of Aging Demographics RoseAnne Homola who will be speaking on our panel for unpacking caregiver guilt...

Brian Sherwood
Sep 23, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today September 18, 2019
Children’s Developmental Milestones These milestones are not the end all be all of child development, but they are helpful to monitor the...

Brian Sherwood
Sep 18, 20192 min read


What We're Following Today, September 13, 2019
Charisma Characteristics What makes a person charismatic? Power, Presence, Warmth? That’s the three qualities cited in this article in...

Brian Sherwood
Sep 13, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today September 12, 2019
Demographic Considerations When Launching a Business This article in Yahoo Finance is about healthcare / medical businesses considering...

Brian Sherwood
Sep 12, 20194 min read


What We're Following Today September 5, 2019
The Changing Face of First Time Home Buyers Unmarried, Asian and Hispanic are three groups who are entering into the first time home...

Brian Sherwood
Sep 5, 20193 min read


What we’re following today August 23, 2019
Taking a Mini Retirement While they call this a Mini Retirement in the article it really does just mirror more of a sabbatical. Basically...

Brian Sherwood
Aug 23, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today August 21, 2019
Population Shifts Spur New Education Programs Ole Miss will be dedicating a full department to Applied Gerontology due to population...

Brian Sherwood
Aug 21, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today August 16, 2019
Personal Note: Sorry for the late post of the blog, but I was actually doing a very Generation Bridge thing this AM - diversifying my...

Brian Sherwood
Aug 16, 20192 min read


What We're Following Today August 15, 2019
Addressing Common Stereotypes of Mature Workers This nice post in Forbes calls out some of the common misconceptions and stereotypes of...

Brian Sherwood
Aug 15, 20192 min read


What We're Following Today August 12, 2019
Note: One thing to note about these blog posts. I try to find articles that offer insights and ideas that help address a variety issues...

Brian Sherwood
Aug 12, 20193 min read


What We're Following Today August 7, 2019
Mindset of Mass Shooters - A Data Centric View The LA Times published an op-ed about a data analysis of mass shooters since 1966 and came...

Brian Sherwood
Aug 7, 20194 min read
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