Wish we still had the $$ we have spent on our disastrous wars…that might help a bit.

With everything that is going on in the world today I think this is a pretty silly topic. Who cares? I certainly do not.

The way I see this is that if something happened to Obama we would have Biden as President. If something happened to McCain we would have….who?

I doubt that her family deliberately reminded Ms Thatcher that her husband was dead…I assume she asked after him and they could hardly say he was there, could they? I agree, there is nothing shameful about dementia but as it tends to strike as we age it should give us all pause this election year….

I feel Joan is quite correct. Having participated in literally hundreds of job interviews (I worked for many years in the public sector)I know that things are often not what they appear to be on the surface. Looks to me as if some of your correspondents just want to take a mean spirited swipe at AARP. AARP appears to me to be trying to work for seniors in a variety of ways although I, too, dislike the selling aspect.

The first time I wore a ‘straight’ skirt my mother advised me to ‘take smaller’ steps as, apparently I liked to stride which was not too feminine. She also told me to marry a rich man.