Monday, July 28, 2014

TRS Care and the Future

Posted on 11:54 AM by rich
Do You have a spare billion dollars? If you do the TRS Care program would like to borrow it. You see, the state health care program for retirees is currently a billion dollars in debt. In other words the TRS Care program will soon be broke and unable to pay the medical bills for retired teachers. The state of Texas has belatedly decided to do something about this deficit by directing the Teacher Retirement System( TRS) www.trs.org  to study options for making the system solvent. You can read in depth about these options on the website of...

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Retirement anxiety

Posted on 12:52 PM by rich
   What in the heck, you might ask is"retirement anxiety" Anxiety is the fear that something might happen in the future, as distinguished from a real fear, which is something actually happening right now. So, for example, if you wake up in the morning and fear a tornado could strike your house, thats an anxiety; if you if you look outside and there's a twister heading for your house. then that's the time to have some real fear . So...

Monday, June 9, 2014

D Day and My Dad's worst birthday

Posted on 11:35 AM by rich
June 5th 1944 was my Dad's worst birthday. I know this because he spent that birthday with 160,000 other seasick, anxious and probably scared soldiers off the beach at Normandy. They were awaiting the order to land on the beaches and begin liberating Normandy from the iron grip of Adolph Hitler. My Dad , Hersell T. Wilson, (who I will often refer to as Hersell: just remember Hersell is my Dad)was born in Corsicana Texas on June 5th 1915. Like...

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Elvis is 79

Posted on 5:28 PM by rich
                                                    Elvis Is Alive              Elvis may have left the building but he is still alive in our minds and heart. January 8TH would have been Elvis' 79th birthday.. So why am I writing about Elvis on this site; after all Elvis didn't live long enough to retire, was not from Texas, and was not a professional teacher.All true but I think...

Elvis+Presley

Posted on 5:18 PM by rich
Elvis+Pres...

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Former Republican party presidential candidate Governor Rick Perry speaks during a pro-life event called "Treasure Life" at the Tampa Aquarium in Tampa, Florida on August 28, 2012. The Republican National Coalition for Life and FRC Action's event, "Treasure Life," honored the pro-life contributions of the former Republican party presidential candidates Sen. Rick Santorum, Rep. Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry for their advocacy for every stage of life, from conception to natural death. AFP PHOTO/MLADEN ANTONOVMLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/GettyImages

Posted on 10:14 AM by rich
Was Rick Perry a good governor of Texas? More narrowly, but more important from the viewpoint of this blog, was Rick Perry a good governor for the retired teachers of Texas?                                        The negatives Rick Perry was the governor of Texas from 2000 to 2013. (Actually his term will continue until 2014) During his terms...

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Getting Better Not Older

Posted on 10:12 AM by rich
                             Are you getting better or just older. Well if you're like me it depends on the day. Eric Pfeiffer in his book Winning Strategies for Successful  Aging says we can get better as we get older but we must have goals and strategies to get better as we age.                      Author's thesis: Pfeiffer says that " in this book you will learn that you probably have years and years...
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