by Taylor Johnson | Nov 5, 2015 | Retirement
I’m in Pakse, Laos. Perhaps you have never heard of it? Perhaps you heard of it recently when a Lao Airline plane crashed into the Mekong River killing a 44 people aboard. There are two flights a day from Vientiane, the Capital, to Pakse. Pakse is the coffee...
by Taylor Johnson | Nov 5, 2015 | Retirement
How much pain do we have to endure before we connect with what is true? I’ve noticed that we humans have a way of ignoring what is true until something happens. Something happens that really gets our attention. As a matter of fact, that attention getting is...
by Taylor Johnson | Nov 5, 2015 | Retirement
He sat straight up as I looked in on him. His black hair, tanned face and pointed beard were framed by the lid and sides of the green dumpster at the side of my office building. An 8-foot dumpster tucked into the slot between the side fence and the air conditioner...
by Taylor Johnson | Nov 5, 2015 | Retirement
She was sitting next to me on a flight to San Francisco. We talked about kids and education. Then I asked her this question, “What is the single thing we could do to improve our education system in the U.S.?” Her answer surprised me. Recently I’d...
by Taylor Johnson | Nov 5, 2015 | Retirement
Nobody cares? Nobody listens? The sky is falling and no one is doing anything about it. Well, perhaps this is a little histrionic, yet there is some truth. Most adults are doing little or nothing about retirement yet they worry about it. Strange. You would think that...
