John Plummer:  

Well, we made it! We are now in cycle 4! We are at that stage in life where diet is very important. What we eat may make up for all the abuse we gave our bodies in the previous 65 years! It will also help us protect our teeth and give us the energy we need with out creating other embarrassing issues. We now know everything. Sometimes we wish we could combine our wisdom with the body of youth. Unfortunately, we know better. We know that youth comes with hormones, immaturity, and all the other things that drove us crazy over the next 45years. Remember all the things you still want to forget and hope others don¿t remember? Here we are at the gates of retirement, yet we cannot retire. Because we are part of the baby boom bulge, too many are trying to get through those narrow gates at the same time. Like our high school clothes, it does not fit. There is not enough room. What is a mortal soul to do? Like all our opportunities up to now, we can either complain or we can figure out what to do. My quandary is¿.what route to take. Complaining is easy and fun. Figuring out what to do is what I have been doing all my life and is really hard work! Since I am masochistic, I know I will take the hard work approach. I really enjoy getting together with friends from those wonderful Modesto years. I am still proud of coming from ¿Mo Town¿. It is fun to talk about the good old times. Then, I realize how much I remember about the good things and how much I want to forget that the bad things ever happened. The reality is that there is a majority of time I cannot remember at all! I guess that is how the mind protects me. In my mind, my life has not passed me by. I still look at every day as a challenge (becaus...Expand for more