July 4th 1920 is all that is written on the back of this photograph. The writing reveals her characteristically angular lines and speaks to me through all these 94 years. She gave it to me in 1975 when I rode up on my first new motorcycle. I was then the same age as they were when she snapped the […]
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Road Forever: Harley’s Young Old Guys
I can recall going back at least 15 years ago and reading about the coming demographic disaster for Harley- Davidson. For at least that long Wall Street and pundit-types have been on the Motor Company concerning the fact that they rode guys of the Baby Boomer Generation (born 1946-1964) to sales growth that finally peaked in […]
Continue Reading...Running: Still trying
This last Saturday I ran in my first “fun run,” the 5K at The Trailbreaker in Waukesha, WI. I had finally agreed to run with my wife….you know, just to be sociable. It might have felt a little romantic, or at least a little cute for Grandma and Grandpa to come across the finish line […]
Continue Reading...A New Paradigm: Stronger Than Your Younger Self
The idea that getting weak and frail is primarily the inevitable consequence of aging is just wrong. Simply raising peoples’ expectations of what is really normal allows them to compete with their own possibilities, as opposed to being limited by averages and the bullying of conventional wisdom. It is not only possible, but indeed most people […]
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