Living Life to the Max
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By MORIARTY, Angela  Things sure have changed since 83-year-old Gordon Max was a young lad like his great-grandson Leroy. His was a day where ploughing was done by hand and weight training meant throwing a bale of barley on your shoulders to harden them up. Deer hunting season was coming.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: The middle classes congratulate themselves on going green, then carry on buying and flying as much as before.
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Could the secret to having enough money in retirement be as simple as working a bit longer? Writing in AARP magazine, Jonathan D. Pond argues yes.
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How to hold on to that Foolish financial discipline in the heat of car passion.
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ASK many homeowners what they would like to change about their home, and more often than not, they want more space.  No matter how eager we are to strive for the minimalist look, daily life seems to lead to an accumulation of more and more ... well, stuff.
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Bumps on the road to retirement smooth themselves out.
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Don't let anyone else decide how comfortable your retirement will be.
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HERE was a time, not so long ago in my more carefree youth, when I was a dedicated backpacker. It went beyond the standard gapyear routine, and most summers I could be found in some distant corner of the globe, living the life of an adrenaline junkie.
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Ask yourself whether you live on the brink of financial disaster.
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It would be a lot easier to enjoy your life if there weren't so many things trying to kill you every day. Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you would be wrong, and it's almost certainly something we can learn to do better.
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I heard a report on NPR a couple of weeks ago, and thought it was very interesting.  A study of a group hotel maids found that even though they lead active lives, get lots of exercise, their health isn't good. High blood pressure, overweight, body-mass index, the usual signs of a sedentary life.  They interviewed them, asking if they were active -- no. Did they get exercise? No. (The correct answer was yes to both.) So they formed two groups, with one group they did nothing, with the other they had a series of classes where they showed them how doing maid work compared to other forms of exercise. The kept going until they understood that they were active and living a healhty lifestyle. A few months later they checked blood pressure, weight, BMI and amazingly the group they had educated had become healthy!
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Go from zero to 80 grand by shifting a few financial gears.
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Feeling too rich? Here's how to shed some excess wealth.
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The need to push our boundaries is in our DNA. We can't afford not to go to Mars -- or anyplace else, for that matter. By James Cameron for Wired magazine.
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Some people eat to live. Others live to eat. But Brian Wansink takes that idea to a whole new level, where food permeates every part of his life.
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 15--Summer is nearly over and you feel like you haven't been outside enough. Too many hours at work. Too much TV.
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Maybe you're saving too much for retirement. You may also be eating too many vegetables, spending too much time with the kids, exercising too regularly and doing your job too diligently.