Surviving long distance flights

On a recent overseas trip, my wife spent 2 days of our holiday in hospital because of a near death experience. No, it wasn’t from an airline mishap, but from a DVT.  One of the few disadvantages of living in Australia is that it’s a […]

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Don’t believe what you think

“I think Donald Trump is a genius”, “I think Donald Trump is an idiot”. A significant percentage of the people in America believe one of these statements. Assuming that one of them is correct, or partially correct,  the other must be wrong. That means there […]

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Why me?

50 Plus Books recently received this wonderful email (not attributed) and we thought we would share it with you. It’s particularly pertinent as we watched the exciting contests at the Australian Open Tennis. A Beautiful Message by Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon Player who was […]

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Who’s in control of your life?

It would be comforting to think that we were in control of our lives. Indeed, the more elements of our life we have some control over, the more confident and happy we generally feel. However fate has a habit of upsetting our well prepared plans […]

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