Destination Nowhere? is about friends getting together and rambling about random topics.
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We all know what the final destination is on our journey through life, but what we don’t know is which path we’ll travel to get there: normal aging or dementia. This blog shares my fears, failures and triumphs along that road, no matter which fork fate has chosen for me.
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The world doesn’t show our messy middle. You always see the end result, the Ah-ha moment, the finished product, the final destination. Moving Through The Middle is about seeing the mess and learning with others, how to move from where you are to where you ultimately want to be, and how to experience massive change when it seems like there's nowhere to grow and nowhere to go.
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Moving Through The Middle Host, Rachel Rosengarten, and Executive Leadership Coach, Shayna Bergman, go in-depth on why coaching matters for professionals stuck in the middle, wanting to grow, but feeling like there is nowhere to go.By Rachel Rosengarten, Katherine Lewis
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More than half of us baby boomers will live into our eighties…and the incidence of dementia will increase. It’s our worst nightmare. If dementia is the path before me, is it possible to prepare for it like I did with retirement? What happens when I stop being me? When is being alive not the same as living? Where are the inflection points?…
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I'm disappointed in my reaction to what just happened. I consider myself pretty savvy when it comes to spotting internet scams, yet I fell for this one. I did my standard due diligence, but I didn't think it through before I reacted. That's a pretty big mistake.
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The notion that we may achieve wisdom as we age is comforting. Throughout history, many cultures have revered the elderly for this very quality: wisdom born of experience. It’s nice work, if you can get it!
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So...what do you think? Does what I've described sound reasonable? Or is it a series of rationalizations to mask what's really happening to me? Am I experiencing signs of cognitive decline on the journey to dementia? Or am I just beginning my 5th career?
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It was my first encounter with the normal decline in brain processing speed as one ages. I, of course, attributed it to my having so many more experiences and neural connections than they did so that it took my brain longer to sort through all the information I had stored up before responding. That was a soothing theory to which I clung, but the fa…
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I know I am 70. I know this is normal, just as I know that a decline in brain function is normal. Yet I want my brain to look and act the same as it has for the past 50 years. I reject splotchy thinking. I bristle at the errors I am noticing with increasing frequency. Even though this might be normal, I don't like it.…
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I don’t want to mislead anyone. Just because I am making mistakes that I can write about doesn’t necessarily mean that they are not a problem…for me or for you. You see, I don’t know whether what I’m describing is normal aging, a mild neurocognitive disorder or early signs of dementia. I don’t want to scare you, but neither do I want to give you a …
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This was very different from the experience I described in my second blog entry where I forgot what I intended to do on the way to doing it. Forgetting that I did something after I had already done it, though, was an error of a different magnitude.
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Why did I snap at her like that? The therapist in me knows that emotions are triggered by underlying beliefs, so I knew I needed to think through what it was about her question that triggered me. As I explored my thoughts, I realized that I felt as if I was under attack, as if Sally was questioning my ability to remember and not just my memory of t…
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So here I am, 17 days short of my 70th birthday. I'm still hitting pretty much on all cylinders. After all, I'm writing this and making edits as I go. And I'm paying bills. And I'm taking my medicine. And I make love in the morning. And I'm aware of errors I'm making and correct them when I can.
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Here is one reason why I am writing this blog and recording these podcasts.
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Memory. The Big Kahuna. Everyone's worst nightmare because memory failure is an essential feature of all forms of dementia. It's the group of errors to which we all pay exquisite attention. Not a day passes on social media when there isn't a meme referencing the experience of going into a room and forgetting why you went there.…
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I’ve been hauling it from place to place for nearly fifty years, dating back to when you could mail a first-class letter for six cents. Never had time to spend quality time with it before. It always sat in a corner or in the attic or was relegated to the basement, a labelled box, usually re-discovered whenever it came time to move to another house.…
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Episode 1 Enjoy the random ramblings of four friends who have nothing better to do.
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Flight 100. Welcome home. (PSA: Potential Breaking Bad spoiler talk 00:30:40 - 00:34:39)By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Things heat up for Brian Lark in unexpected ways.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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The guys come to grips with 36 as Matt teaches Bryan and Pj about Chinese birthdays. Queue up!By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Some friendships span all time and hemispheres.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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In this late Sunday night live recording at Go Comedy! Improv Theater before fives of people, Bryan finds himself short a Matt and Pj, but up a Garrett, Joe and Travis.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Matty Andy and Pajama talk to Jimmy-Q about duping a guy named Mojo.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Who is Jigga Woodson? ...and more Vandrosses!By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Classic. Vertical.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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New flights are on their way! Besides stewing in anticipation, you know what'd be fun? Reliving Labor Day 2011 with a re-release of our classic flight with Garrett Fuller!By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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With Pj still out, Bryan goes on a Rush, Damn Yankees and swimming bender, Randy Newman tries to get Matt a job, and Matt hurts Jen's face.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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It's easy ridin' as Matt and "Fake Tom" are joined by Jen Hansen on the Popemoplane.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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The guys run into Tommy LeRoy and talk parental revisionist history, syrup troughs, intellectual (and/or stupid) Canadian humor and the majestic grace of curling.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Bryan recites a Frankenmyth. Matt schemes up a sweet lederhosen racket. Pj fires up the Yakko, Wakko and Dot.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Photo by Heather Sejnow Aided by Sam Richardson, the guys dare to divulge secrets about The Church of Scientology, James Bond, Big Bird and Walt Disney World. If this plane were ever to mysteriously go down, this flight was the cause.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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We conclude our look back with some of our favorite moments with the guests of 2012 and a supercut that would make a cinefile weep.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Join us as we look back on some of your (and our) favorite in-flight moments and accidental predictions of 2012.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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This one's a hoot with holiday wishes, Netflix streaming suggestions, cameos and the answer to how far Matt would go to become nouveau-riche.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Hold on Annie Potts! The guys set out to do some Twin Peaks-style detectiving in Humptulips.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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The perfect soundtrack for hanging in your MMA/Real Housewives of ____ rage cave.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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In a flight that can only be bested by that pork shoulder from Sicily, Bryan, Matt and Pj run into Tim McKendrick and talk about touring the Walmart parking lots of New England, Chuck Norris' jeans, more films Pj hasn't seen and how dark a black box can really get.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Joined by Groovebox Studio's Shawn Neal, the guys ponder advanced brew delivery systems, the future of Detroit music, the dangers of philanthropic hipsters and how to break up a domestic dispute (or maybe foreplay?) wielding a medieval mace and a Droid. Here's the video that Shawn talks about in during the flight. Shone Nuisance from gbs detroit on…
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Matt and Pj are joined by Cap'n Eric's aural doppelgänger, Eric Haenke from the Nerdetroit podcast, as he journeys to a Lonestar Kumite. (Errata: There is no special "10 yard line" in TV broadcasts of football. It is more commonly known as the 1st Down Line. As well, you're most likely to see the 1st Down Line while watching the NFL, not the NHL.)…
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Matt and Pj cruise down Route "gigging in matchy-matchy satin shirts" and take a right turn at Poignant Parkway.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Bryan, Matt and Pj get to fulfill their collective lifelong dream of traveling to Stavenger AND pronouncing it ad nauseam.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Like a sneaky pinky in your earholes, Hurricane Sandy might have grounded the flight, but it won't keep the guys down.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Recorded LIVE at Go Comedy! Improv Theater - Fresh off willing the Tigers to victory over a debilitating motor neuron disease, Bryan and Matt find themselves short a Pj, but coincidentally on the same flight as the sensationally super sassy Suzie Jacokes!By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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Bryan, Matt, Pj and Scott Vertical (theverticalfiles.com) prove that history isn't as dependent on facts as you'd think.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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The guys are joined by Mike Bobbitt (offthemike.com). It's all gaming your IMDB, Lori Petty, douchebag soft drinks, Flesh Gordon and one-eyed orgasms.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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In the time it takes to ride The Beast 11 times... Bryan, Matt and Pj are joined by Pj's beloved bride, Lisa Jacokes, as they ponder mid-90s Top 40, Amazonian South Africans, and abusing Jon Hamm.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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En route to the Paris of the Plains, the guys explore empathy, sleeper hits, the UAE and the space between Friends and Seinfeld.By Flight 1977 Non-Stop
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