Lifestyles After 50 Marion/Lake/Sumter March 2014 edition

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Vol. 25 • March 2014

Peace & Serenity

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Traditional Irish Fare Patient Advocates Navigate the Healthcare System Learn to Capture the Magic Happenings & Events Around Town

Getting Off the Beaten Path Can Lead to Little-Known Gems of Discovery

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ust look at that cover photo—a boardwalk leading to somewhere we can’t see. Knowing it is in Florida, we Janice Doyle, might guess there’s Editor a swampy area ahead (read: gators and cypress trees). I suppose we all feel like getting away sometimes. We think we’d like to get off the beaten path or boardwalk and go far from the busyness of the interstate highways and crowded shopping malls.

It’s fun just to take a path, walk on it and enjoy peace and tranquility—at least for a little while. I’m afraid I’ve become so tied to my technology (gotta check the iPhone—someone might be texting me!) and conveniences (run up to the store and get eggs) that I’d not be a good candidate for being REALLY REALLY far off the beaten path very long.

Getting off the beaten path means we pay less attention to comfort, convenience and what others consider best or right or timely and change to thinking more about a “fit” for our own needs. It’s times we find new thoughts, new ideas and perhaps new people. It means having less attachment to what we usually do or what others think about what we do.

I want to follow such paths, but where? when? how? I started by

Black Bear Scenic Byway

Punta Gorda’s Third Annual Pedal and Play in Paradise

Live Oak’s Spirit of the Suwannee Music Events Wine & Cheese Cruise on Homosassa Springs

leaving my comfy living room reading chair and taking a new book out into Dear Husband’s beautifully landscaped back yard. Why not read outside? I just hadn’t done it for years. Now I have.

And I’ve lived here over 30 years and had never gone to the every-single-Saturday-night rodeo at River Ranch. Now I have, and it was so very colorful and such fun—read about it in this issue.

After more thought and research, DH and I are ready to load up the cooler and the lawn chairs and start checking out some of Florida’s more unique places.

No mouse ears for a while, please!

From the website visitflorida.com’s section “Off the Beaten Path,” here’s our start-up list of places and events: 13th Annual Sopchoppy Worm Gruntin’ Festival (April 13) Wild Horse Rescue in Mims—volunteer for a day

Black Bear Scenic Byway Drive 15th Annual Antique & Classic Boat Show in Apalachicola

It’s Greek to Me: Take Bouzouki Lessons in Tarpon Springs (Only $5)

Yalaha Bakery in Lake County for the fresh bread Find some of Florida’s Historic Cemeteries

Festival of Bacon in Orlando October 5 (Who knew?)

Greenville, Florida: Childhood Hometown of Ray Charles

So, Readers, I’ll see you on the Black Bear Byway or in a cemetery or on some other off-the-beaten path adventure! Enjoy!

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one-time military cooks to tell their stories. Send an email with a little about your experiences to: janice@lifestylesafter50.com.

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Museum and Volunteers Offer 1800’s View of Florida

BY JOHN A. PRESTON

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o give unselfishly of yourself, your skills, your heart, your soul, your personality, your life experience, your time – it’s rare to find this type person today, but not rare characterMuseum volunteers bring history to life. istics for those who volunteer at Silver Springs Museum and and the Timucuan Indians, is a Environmental Education Center. registered National Landmark. The “Volunteers are critical to our Museum and Education Center success,” says Museum Director Scott volunteer duties, according to Mitchell, who has been involved with Mitchell, include teaching docent, the museum for 10 years. “We have First Mate on a tour boat, assistance four full-time employees and several in the museum archaeological collecpart-timers, so our staff is small. Over tions or the library and maintenance 10,000 students visit our museum and work in the blacksmith shop. each year. We could not operate at this Al and Pat Duane first visited Florida level without volunteers, who also 43 years ago on their honeymoon. “We save our program a lot of money by knew then we liked Florida,” he said. performing tasks we would otherwise “Thirteen years ago we moved here for have to pay for. They are quite diverse good. We came from Silver Springs and many are retired educators.”

(Maryland) and now volunteer at Silver Springs, the state’s oldest tourSilver Springs one or two days a week ist attraction dating back to the 1500s and some weekends. We enjoy it.”

Pat, a retired school teacher, works with fourth graders teaching them about life in the 1800s.

Al volunteers his time and energy in the blacksmith shop.

“I am still learning the blacksmith business,” Al said.

“While researching information for our presentations, we’re learning a lot of very interesting information. Crackers down here in Florida were honest, hard-working, Christian people. They were God-fearing; they helped their neighbors. Being called a ‘cracker’ in the South was a compliment; up North it was a derogatory term.”

The ‘Cracker Village’ display shows what home was like to hardworking cattle ranchers. “Florida is

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one of the largest cattle producing states in the country,” Al said. “The Crackers herded cattle by cracking a whip which sounded like a rifle shot and made the cattle move.”

Recent improvement to the museum, according to Mitchell, included renovating several buildings “in order to become more historically accurate, creating as precise an experience as possible.”

Future plans include interactive touch screens for students and visitors to highlight the cultural and natural history of North Central Florida. It will include a hologram of a historical figure who will speak to visitors.

“The Silver River Museum is a gem here in North Central Florida and is unique for many reasons,” said Mitchell.

“Because we are a part of the Marion County Public School System, we focus on elementary age students. However, the museum is open to the public each weekend and for special events.”

Visit SilverRiverMuseum.com.

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Around Town

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hrough April 13 A Celebration of Japan exhibition and The Living Art of Bonsai. Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala. 352-291-4455.

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Entertainment Series. 5:30 and 8:30 pm. Cooney’s Irish Cabaret. Tickets: $24 and $29. Savannah Center, The Villages, Lady Lake. 352-753-3229.

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through 9 Pig on the Pond BBQ Competition and Festival. $3/ admission. Waterfront Park, Clermont.

For more info: visit pigonthepond.org

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The Wisconsin Singers and Dancers “HOT HOT HOT” Show by University Of Wisconsin Singers and Dancers and band.

Savannah Center, The Villages, Lady Lake. 352-753-3229.

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Parade of Senior Services.

A showcase of local services available to seniors and their families. Kline Conference Center, College of Central Florida, Ocala.

10 am to 3 pm. 352-401-3916.

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by Lake County Quilters Guild.

Admission: $7. Lake Receptions, Mount Dora. 352-223-3825. and 9 Leesburg Art Festival. Over 100 artists and craftsmen, entertainment. Downtown Leesburg. 352365-0232 or leesburgartfestival.com.

“Great Opera Scenes” by Central Florida Lyric Opera at Center for the Performing Arts, Lake Sumter State College, Leesburg. $28/seniors. 877-211-5346.

– 15 The Sensational Sixties Show by the Broadway Bound Players, music of the “Decade of Hope and Promise.” Savannah Center, The Villages, Lady Lake. 352-753-3229.

“A Night for the Irish” with Irish dance and music at the Mount Dora Community Building. $20 and $25. 352-735-7183.

BBQ, Blues and Brew. 5 to 10 pm. $10/adults, Downtown Leesburg. 352-365-0053.

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Tuscawilla Sculpture Stroll.

Entertainment, art activities, sculpture competition. 1 to 4 pm.

Tuscawilla Park, Ocala. 352-629-8447.

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“A Principle Finale” by Ocala Symphony Orchestra.

3 pm. Appleton Musuem of Art, Ocala. 352-351-1606.

– 23 Wine and Seafood Festival at Lakeridge Winery, Clermont. $2 admission.

352-394-8627 or 800-768-WINE.

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Food Truck-n-Flick Night. 5:30 pm. Gourmet food trucks, free family friendly movie. Bring lawn chairs.

Downtown Leesburg. 352-365-0053.

“Symphony Serendipity” concert by the Florida Lakes Symphony. 7:30 pm. St. Patrick’s Church, Mount Dora. 28 Same performance in Clermont at Family Christian Center. 352-589-1500.

Jazz on the Green Festival.

Dancing, music, food, drink. $40/advance, $55 VIP. Jumbolair, Ocala. jazzonthegreenocala.com.

“Turnstiles,” the ultimate tribute to Billy Joel. $12 to $15. Circle Square Cultural Center, Ocala. 352-854-3670.

Entertainment Series. 7 pm.

Great Opera Scenes featuring Central Florida Lyric Opera.

Savannah Center, The Villages, Lady Lake. 352-753-3229.

Send Around Town news to News Connection USA, Inc., P.O. Box 638, Seffner, FL 33583; fax (813) 651-1989 or email calendar@srnewsconnection. com. News must be received by the 10th of the month prior to event (i.e. March 10 for April event.)

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Have a Healthcare System Problem? Hire a Patient Advocate

BY PAUL WYNN

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highlighted the dysfunction of the healthcare system and showed the growing distance between people who need healthcare and people who provide healthcare, says Vicki Breitbart, director of the health advocacy program at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. “Patient advocates can help bridge that gap.”

in their infancy that are still creating standards and a code of ethics, says Breitbart.

hen questions arise over medical bills, treatment options, insurance claims, Advocacy in action undiagnosed symptoms, who do To find a health advocate, you turn to for help? Doctors, AdvoConnection.com is a nurses, loved ones—maybe good place to start. All you Google. Turns out there are need to search the free directory professionals who can offer is an email address and zip answers—and provide help. code. There are about a half These professionals are dozen advocates on the called patient advocates, West Coast of Florida. sometimes known as health One of them is Lea Ann advocates or patient navigaBiafora with Beacon Ontors. While the profession cology Nurse Advocates in is in its infancy, it is slowly Saint Petersburg. Biafora achieving greater recognihelps patients and their tion as more people learn families work through about how patients can multiple issues related to benefit from their services. cancer—from evaluating “Just as many people now medical records, questions have a financial advisor, to ask their doctors to personal trainer or life treatment options and coach, more people are financial issues. “Our goal learning that they can hire Navigating the healthcare system can is to empower patients a patient advocate with and help them become be less confusing with a patient advocate insider knowledge and knowledgeable and by your side, but be prepared to pay direct experience about understand their treatment out-of-pocket for their services. how the healthcare system options,” she says. works,” says Elisabeth Paying for an advocate Schuler Russell, founder of Currently, there are an will most likely come out of Patient Navigator consultancy estimated 150 patient advocates your own pocket. Advocates’ and president of the National in the United States, composed services are generally not Association of Healthcare Adof nurses, physician assistants, covered by health insurance. vocacy Consultants (NAHAC). social workers, medical billers, It’s important to find out how Patient advocates provide insurance advisors and many much an advocate charges. a wide range of services. caregivers whose personal There’s no standard fee These services may include experience helping parents for patient advocates, but managing medical and hospital or loved ones with healthcare hourly fees range from $60 bills, filing insurance claims, decisions motivated them to to $250. Some advocates will choosing health or Medicare get involved in the profession. waive their fee for an initial plans, finding the right doctor, Russell says that as the baby consultation to learn more challenging insurance denials, boomers age, new insurance about your unique needs. researching medical conditions, options emerge through the Russell recommends asking accompanying you or loved ACA and treatment options for a written agreement or ones to medical appointments, become increasingly complex, contract that lists out the among many other things. there’s a growing need for services to be provided, patients to work with patient estimated hours and how Emerging trend advocates. But skeptics warn long the service will take.

The Affordable Care Act patients that there currently is “Most advocates will put (ACA) most recently fueled the no certification or state litheir information and answers need for “insurance navigators” censure for patient advocates to you in writing without to help consumers research and no actual qualifications hesitation,” she explains. and enroll in health insurance are required. This is not “Don’t rely on verbal exchanges. The ACA has also uncommon for professions promises or commitments.”

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Finding a Patient Advocate

Hallmarks of an ethical and effective patient advocate:

Experience

Experience as a healthcare professional can be helpful in understanding the nuances of the medical system, but non-clinical backgrounds prove useful as well. Find out how much experience they have in handling similar cases.

Credentials

Some advocates may have earned local certificates from universities or online training programs, but there is no national certification or licensure for patient advocacy.

Affiliation

Does the advocate belong to professional associations such as the National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants (NAHAC) or the Alliance of Professional Health Advocates (APHA)? Membership is no guarantee for ethical behavior, but these two associations have set standards for their members.

Ethics

Members of APHA and NAHAC abide by a code of ethics with the goal of providing compassion and respect to patients and their families. Other ethical conduct includes being transparent, maintaining patient privacy and avoiding discrimination.

Specialization

Word of mouth is one of the best ways to find an advocate. However, each advocate specializes in different areas so match your specific needs to someone with a track record and relevant experience.

Work Load

Ask how many projects the advocate works on. It’s normal for advocates to be juggling a few cases at one time, but make sure your needs get the attention you deserve.

Check AdvoConnection.com online.

Florida Patient Advocates include:

Compass Care: 813-501-2000 Professional Advocacy: Partners: 352-326-2030 Aging Wisely: 727-477-5845 Patient Advocacy Group: 972-390-1101 Florida Patient Advocacy: 352-379-8259 Beacon Oncology Nurse Advocates: 855-490-8777 Paul Wynn has covered healthcare trends for the past 20 years as a freelance writer.

Westgate River Ranch Vacation: Close to Nature Yet Far Enough Away to Be a Real Vacation

BY JANICE DOYLE

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ee haw! Ride ‘em cowboys. Not long ago we had a hankerin’ to get out the Western shirts and boots and spend a weekend in the great Florida outdoors. Out where the star sightings aren’t filtered by city lights. It was a good reason for a trip to Westgate River Ranch east of Lake Wales. The River Ranch has been around for decades and has recently been renovated as part of the Westgate Resort family.

It’s the largest dude ranch in Florida and a clean, safe place to go alone or with the whole family. Here’s what to look for:

1. Activities for everyone and for all ages: sit in the quiet with a book, go to The Saloon for a drink (including non-alcoholic), ride a mechanical bull, play mini golf. How about horseback riding, skeet shooting, swamp buggy, air boating, fishing or archery? On DrCartwright_MatureLifestyles.pdf 1 weekend nights there’s line dancing,

live music, bonfires, hayride/cookout, a small adventure park and the rodeo.

2. Try Glamping (glamorous camping). Each Glamping site is a sturdy fully-furnished canvas tent set on a platform in a wooded area complete with microwave, mini fridge, AC. Glamping sites include a key to a private bathroom facility with shower.

3. Convenient accommodations include new and older cabins and the renovated Lodge as well as a beautiful RV park.

4. Yee haw! It’s a Wild West rodeo 8:44 AM every Saturday night! Eight seconds

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may not seem like a long time, but when you’re watching a bull rider trying to stay on a bucking bull, it seems like an eternity. This rodeo is fun. Professional—and colorful—lady horseback riders make their acts seem easy and there’s a hilarious “calf scramble” for kid cowpokes. It’s a very patriotic, feel-good-to-be-an-American event with lots of red, white and blue and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.” A Rodeo Dance immediately following the rodeo is an open time for everyone to dance to slow tunes, boot-scootin’ boogie and fun stuff like “Macarena.”

5. Natural Florida is right outside the door. From watching bison and horses in the pasture to hiking trails through ancient live oak woods along the water, you may find your only distractions to be the birds and critters.

6. The easy life is here. On site, the Smokehouse Grill, the Saloon

and the Deli at the General Store serve up meals. And there’s a Dinner Hayride. No Western wear?

Buy a nifty cowboy hat or outfit at the onsite Western Store.

7. One-of-a-kind staff. Everyone is terrific and attentive—like they want to be there, and we found many who had worked at the ranch for years.

These guys may be bull riders for the weekend rodeo, but they make great trail ride guides during the day!

Days and hours of operation for restaurants vary by season; call ahead before visiting to know if you need to stop on the way for groceries.

Accommodation prices: Lodge: $99 and up; Cottages and Cabins: $150 and up; Glamping tents: $179 and up; tent sites: $20; RV sites: $40.

Sample activity prices: Rodeo: $15.50. Pontoon boat rental: $65/ hour + tax. Swamp buggy ride: $25.

To learn more, call 863-692-1321.

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Veterans Corner

“War Stories and Free Beer” Bridges Military/Civilian Gap

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen of GORUCK says, lder veterans “The goal of our remember coming event is to bridge the home from their war civilian-military-gap experiences to a country and break down some that seemed not to care. language barriers— One man is trying to in an atmosphere change all that for today’s anchored by a Army Special Forces Staff universal love of beer. soldiers. Army Special Sergeant Jason McCarthy Often when it’s over Forces Staff Sergeant Jason McCarthy told and it’s the free beer CBS News he feels “we time, people talk and can impact society for that’s when people the better sooner” by can talk individually telling war stories from to the participants. It’s Iraq and Afghanistan a very intimate time now to create underfor sharing stories.” standing. McCarthy went on to say One of the guest speakers for that public support for the military is the Largo GORUCK event will strong but that very few people know be Major Ceasar Civitella. MAJ someone in the service personally.

Civitella served in WWII with the McCarthy is founder of GORUCK, Office of Strategic Services, the a company that makes backpacks and predecessor to the CIA. He was one other military-grade gear used today by of the first to be recruited for the individuals and miltary. He sponsors newly formed U.S. Army’s Special War Stories and Free Beer to tell the Forces. Later, MAJ Civitella worked military story. McCarthy said that havfor the CIA where he was awarded ing served in the military doesn’t have the Intelligence Medal of Merit. to be the proverbial “elephant in the These are not open mic events, room.” Instead of just hearing people according to Pollitt-Cohen. The men say “Support the troops,” McCarthy have told their stories before. And wants to answer questions like “What McCarthy said beer will always be did you do in the war?” or maybe provided at the events because it “What was it like?” He wants people serves as a symbol, “…just one of to know who they are supporting. those things that makes you smile.”

GORUCK’s War Stories and Free There won’t be dress uniforms, and the Beer is coming to Largo, Florida’s environment is set up to be as unthreatArmed Forces History Museum ening as possible. It will be a time to Officers Club on Thursday, March 6. learn about the life of a deployed miliDuring the two-hour event, four veterans tary service member in today’s world— will each share a deployment story, along and maybe share the understanding of with personal photographs, followed by what it meant to you in another time. a Q and A time. The stories are meant to If you go: 7 pm to 9 pm. $10 donainform and humanize as well as entertain. tion/tickets may be purchased online The Navy Times reported that Capt. at goruck.com. Proceeds benefit David Waikart, a military intelligence the Armed Forces History Museum officer, “had the crowd roaring as he as well as Iraq and Afghanistan poked fun at the Special Forces and Veterans of America. Armed Forces Rangers who ‘take themselves too seriHistory Museum – Officers Club, ously in their black Oakley sunglasses.’” 2050 34th Way North, Largo.

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Learn to Capture Magic Every Day of Your Life

BY EVELYN MACKEY

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t’s never too late to have dreams.

Reaching mid life doesn’t mean dreams have to end. One man who dreamed big and acted on his dreams every day of his life was Walt Disney.

Recently, the movie “Saving Mr. Banks” provided insight into the way Disney saw his past and present. Near the end when he revealed details about his childhood, audiences gained new respect for him. At no time had he let his past define his present or ruin his dreams.

One book about Walt Disney, “How To Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life” also presents the man behind the myth. Authors Pat Williams and Jim Denney conducted over 1,000 interviews and then tied them all together

to share lessons You and Walt they gleaned How can you be like Walt from this icon of Disney? How can you American family make your own dreams entertainment. come true? The authors Williams, whose made 16 observations from personal fascinathose 1,000 interviews. tion with Disney If your life seems to lack began when direction or if you’re asking he relocated to yourself “What next?” this Orlando in 1989 list may help you begin to to build a new “capture the Disney magic NBAA basketball every day of your life”: team, considers Tomorrow can be a Walt Disney wonderful age. to be one of his mentors. In fact, his team, the Magic, was named in honor of one of Disney’s The way to get started is to quit talking most famous creations, and begin doing. —Walt Disney the Magic Kingdom.

The book is part biography, Live the Adventure part motivational speech, part self-help Be a Salesman book, part business guide, and it offers • Dare to do the Impossible many of Disney’s best features and • Unleash Your Imagination enduring qualities to incorporate into your own life. No matter your age.

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• Take a Risk • Deal with Loss • Plus Every Experience • Be a Person of Stick-To-It-Ivity • Be a Sponge for Ideas • Ask Yourself – ‘How About Tomorrow?’

• Live for the Next Generation • Build Complementary Partnerships • Stay Focused • Accept Your Mortality • Make Family Your Top Priority How To Be Like Walt follows Disney from his humble childhood years on a farm until his death in December of 1966. What is clear throughout the book is a life of imagination, perseverance and optimism.

The Walt Disney Family Museum, located in a building in The Presidio in San Francisco, also traces Walt Disney’s life and work. His dream?

Oh, he never had just one at a time – he just kept adding new ones.

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ear Mark: Do you know why $50 bills are unlucky in a casino?

My husband will never accept them from a cashier, but can’t explain why except to say that they are jinxed. Have you ever heard of such a thing? —Jackie H.

Sit down at almost any baccarat table and you will find pencils and scorecards provided for the players to track the outcome of each hand. What they are doing is analyzing their card for trends as winning hands switch back and forth between the Player and Banker. Personally, I believe they are wasting their time. Assuming, as you should, that the shoe and dealer are legit, the next hand is an independent, random event.

The fiftydollar bill ($50) is a denomination of United States currency that has the 18th U.S. President, It is unclear where the bill’s Ulysses S. Grant, featured on the unlucky reputation comes from, obverse, with the U.S. Capitol on the reverse. Hardly anything here but legend has it that mobsters draws on superstition, that groundless used to tuck $50 bills in the belief in a supernatural agency. Yet, jacket pockets of victims they your husband is far from alone. buried in the desert. Bugsy Many gamblers are dead set against Siegel had three on him when accepting them, and many casinos he was snuffed out by the mob. will not even hand them out.

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was standing in line at the bank and noticed that all four men in front of me were bald, and the row of round, gleaming heads seemed kind of funny to me. I know it’s creepy, but secretly laughing at other people is one of my small pleasures in life. There was a young guy with a full head of hair behind me and I decided to share the joke, whispering, “I feel like I’m in a bowling alley.” The young guy smiled and then said, “I guess that happens when you guys hit a certain age.”

Humor We were two compadres, sharing a private laugh when suddenly the words “you guys” registered.

And then I did a double take. Was my former compadre saying I was also bald? But I wasn’t bald. Or was I? I hadn’t looked at the back of my head in an awfully long time.

I anxiously continued my business at the bank. I was tempted to ask the teller if I was bald. However, maybe the bank has a special service charge for telling someone if they’re bald— they have charges for everything else.

I went home and used the double mirror technique to look at the back of my head. And sure enough, there was fairly large bald spot back there.

It was like a large pink grapefruit juice stain on a gray carpet.

I felt like I was punched in the stomach—I realized I looked older than I thought I did. It was reminiscent of the first time I was given, unasked for, a senior discount.

My first thought was that I was being punished for making fun of those other bald guys.

But that was silly. My hair couldn’t fall out because of a bad joke. If that were the case, I would have been completely bald years ago.

My second thought was to change the term bald to balding. That little “ing” made me feel somewhat better. I wasn’t quite bald yet. Of course “balding” is an active word and it meant the spot was growing, spreading, taking over my head.

My third thought was to fix the problem. I researched hair transplants, hair thickening, laser therapy, herbs, wigs, the Donald Trump comb-over, and that spray that kind of looks like you’re putting shoe polish on your head. I even thought of turning to religion. I’m a Reform Jew but if I became Orthodox I would always wear a yarmulke—hiding my bald spot.

Okay, I realized I was going a little crazy. I also realized, during my research, that baldness isn’t necessarily a sign of getting older. There were many young people who were bald (and that made me happy). And also, there were some really good looking bald men. There was Bruce Willis and there’s, uh, Bruce Willis, and did I mention Bruce—okay, I can’t think of anyone else right now but I’m sure there’s lots of them. Anyway, I decided to accept my situation.

I wish I could say I learned some moral lesson about all this—don’t make fun of people because it will come back and bite you. However, the following week I was again at the bank and this time the four guys in front of me all had long shaggy hair. I turned to the man behind me and whispered, “I feel like I’m at the Westminster Dog Show.” And we both laughed (yes, I know it’s sad).

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Think heritage. Check out the working Dutch windmill in Little Chute.

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For a time Harry Houdini’s family called Appleton home, and the hands-on displays about Houdini are fun and engaging as visitors get an inside look at the renowned magician and performer. The idea of the museum is to reveal his secrets of illusion, so visitors can try duplicating some of Houdini’s tricks, picking locks on handcuffs, and so on.

Trivia: Houdini’s massive head of hair? Good for hiding things in. Well, there were other body parts he used for hidings, too.

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