From AboutSeniors - Readers' Stories

by Daphne Hargreaves

My fate was sealed twenty-one years before I was born. It was at the time of my mother's birth.

My grandmother had longed to give her first born daughter the name Daphne. Her husband would have none of it, instead the baby was named Elsie Eileen. This name, my grandfather's choice, he registered before my grandmother was discharged from hospital - she was not even a party to the naming of the baby she had just given birth to!

As my mother grew up, my grandmother told her the story of how she was named. She instilled in her daughter the desire to use the name Daphne, should she bear a daughter of her own.

Thus it was predetermined.

I was born at 6a.m.on a glorious June morning in England. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, all was well in my mother's world; Daphne had arrived. Why couldn't my father have been more assertive? It was many years later that he admitted that he didn't really like my name but since my mother was so set on it he just 'let her have her own way' or so he said. 

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Marketing Financial Services to Seniors: A Program for Tapping the Most Affluent Market in America Today

by Larry Klein
NF Communications Inc.: Walnut Creek, CA
$24.95
(Hardback: 176 pages)
2000

Reviewed by Jon A. Ford, CFP

“Forget about the baby boomers,” says Larry Klein—“It’s the seniors who have the wealth.” This is a book for financial services salespersons. It promises to reveal marketing practices to increase sales to people retired or very close to it. The author presents facts about seniors that are helpful to understand objectives, fears, and other very strong emotions that accompany retirement, which Klein views as a fundamental, life-altering event when new values take center stage.

By Your Life (YL) Magazine

Anyone who thinks surfing is an “adolescent activity” needs to get down to the surf beach. Chances are, your assumptions will be challenged before you even leave the car park.

At nearly any surf beach in any state you will see lean, fit men and women in their 40s, 50s and older leaving the car park or coming up from the beach with surf boards under their arms. The teenagers and young adults who sometimes accompany them are their sons and daughters, and even their grandchildren.