All one has to do lately is read a few newspaper columns and you'd think that this is the season of loneliness. Perhaps it is. I mean, it is the season of graduations and all that the tradition brings. Oh sure, the graduate gets to turn the tassel to the...

Winter is now changing to spring and the gradual process of flowers flowering and buds sprouting begins anew. There is a time for every purpose, as they say.

There does come a time in our lives when the actual process of living slows down. Or just changes. Or just...

It's a rainy day in Washington, D.C., as I sit at my computer to reflect on the morning I just spent. They say that rain means that God is crying. Today, I share those tears too. I just came back from a funeral for a friend's mother. Oh, his mom...

It's a New Year. New years are good. I mean if the last year wasn't so hot, it's a good thing that we've moved on to a New Year. Notice that I capitalized the words "New Year." I did that because that's the way it always seems to be written...

I had a wonderful opportunity earlier this month to appear on a very special television special on RLTV. RLTV, for those of you who are not familiar with it, is a cable television network geared toward Baby Boomers and covers issues important to that demographic such as finances,...

Lately I've been thinking about heroes. We bandy that word around a lot, and in so doing have come to call almost anyone a hero. The guy who finds a lost wallet, looks inside, finds to whom it belongs and returns it is called a hero. The guy who hits...

Lately I have been having a conversation with myself about what is right and what is wrong in the world. Not only in the world at large, but also in my own world. Why is it that I can't help but wonder why nobody seems to stand up for those...

We live in the greatest nation on Earth. We live in the land of opportunity. We live in a land of abundance. We also live in a land that has oftentimes been blind to "the other side of the story." Not everyone in this nation has been lucky. Not everyone...

I sit here writing this on Memorial Day. Memorial Day, a day that our nation celebrates those who fought and died for our country in faraway lands to preserve our freedoms here at home. We know, too, that all who serve are forever changed. What comes to my mind today,...

On May 3, the Meals On Wheels Research Foundation issued a new research report entitled "Senior Hunger in America 2010: An Annual Report." Prepared by Professor James P. Ziliak of the University of Kentucky and Professor Craig Gundersen of the University of Illinois, that report found that an astounding 8.3...

It's that time of year again when those of us in the nonprofit world have to start dropping the "F" bomb. Actually, it's always that time of year. Those of us who beg for loose change have to drop that bomb on an almost daily basis. That "bomb," of course,...

"Old friends. Sat on their park bench like bookends. Can you imagine us years from today sharing a park bench quietly. How terribly strange to be 70."

With apologies to Simon and Garfunkel, those words never quite meant much to me when I sang them so many years ago....

We've just witnessed the greatest spectator sporting event in America. We viewers were millions strong and even more of us listened to all the hype leading up to "The Day." Yes, most of America eagerly awaited a gridiron battle that would determine not only a winner, but also who owned...

Rather late in my life I have taken up the spiritually-healing, doctor-invoked plea, and all-in-all pain in the you-know-what athletic endeavor of walking.

Oh not just a little walk in the park. No, in my case, a walk in the dark. I'm up every morning at 5 a.m. and...

I've been doing what a lot of other people have been doing lately. I've been reading Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson. I have been a fan of Jobs for as long as I can remember and, in fact, am writing this piece on my iMac. I bought it as homage...

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about what it actually means to get old. No, not just older, but "old." We all get older. That's a good thing. But when are we actually considered old? And just who defines it, anyway? I've heard it said that you truly...

I always thought it was true, but it is appalling to see it for oneself.

In my hands were two grocery items - one snack-sized cream filled yellow cake that is the opposite of good for you, and one red apple.

How could the apple cost MORE...

One in nine seniors in America faces the threat of hunger. And that's a 20 percent increase in just six years. That reality, in one of the world's wealthiest nations, underscores the crisis that is at the core of Meals On Wheels' drive to end senior hunger by 2020. Doing...

September is a very important month to me. And this year has been particularly significant for two reasons -- the 10th Anniversary of September 11, and this month, we are unveiling our national awareness campaign about the issue of hunger to everyone who will listen.

As a New Yorker, September...

A talented young man came to interview me the other day for a documentary he is making. He got me thinking about the challenges of aging. We talked about how older Americans are perceived by many as -- boring, unappealing, too old to function, a drain on society, and some...