Archive for January 30th, 2016

Kennett area aiming to capitalize on trends

Every day, 10,000 people turn 65 in this country, a trend expected to continue for the next 15 years. Without immigration, especially from Central America and South America, the U.S. population would be shrinking, and Baby Boomers, who once dominated the country, have been supplanted by Millennials, who now represent the largest share of the population. Such ...

 
 

Mind Matters — Babies and bullies

Here I am thinking about my mother again. Perhaps it is because now that I have become a grandmother, I am coming to understand how she felt not only as a mother but as a grandmother herself, how she saw a “grander” picture of parenting — the larger, long term view. So what is my larger, long-term view now that I identify with her so much? Perhaps it is the ...