Fred First

Within Our Grasp – Learning To Live With What We Have

We are coming to the end of many familiar and comfortable ways of life in the next few months, and the beginnings of the new we cannot fully know....

FRED FIRST: Country Mouse, City Life / Growing New Roots without Transplant Shock

As soon as we made the decision in November to move to Columbia, calculating the...

FRED FIRST: Landing on One’s Feet

. . .  and To be a Placed Person When You Get There In Floyd County—or...

Leaving Home to Find It … Where Does This Road Go?

“When we are young, we live where we’re born. For some of us, the place...

FRED FIRST: Go West, Old Man!

We decided this fall that our wonderful, comfortable, convenient and convivial existence here in Southwest...

FRED FIRST: A Dozen Links from January

Might be, one or two of these more general-interests sources from my links folder will pique your curiosity. Obviously they got my attention, so...

FRED FIRST: One Move Left In Us . . .

We were working on a plan for the rest of our lives, for when the time would be right. And we were waiting for...

FRED FIRST: Many Hope To Age in Place . . .

But Maybe Not the Place You Thought The phrase "Age-in-Place" is kind of the Holy Grail of late-in-life housing ambitions for many of our local...

FRED FIRST: Boomers Gotta Have A Plan . . .

YOU CAN'T TREAD WATER FOREVER By definition, you are a BABY BOOMER if you were born between 1946 and 1964. You have a lot of...

FRED FIRST: Time On Earth – The Motion Our Tools Can Help Us See

Today, two visual gems I wanted you to see. FIRST… WINTER IN TIME For those of you who think winter is gray and sleeping or any...

FRED FIRST: Welcome Winter! (I Will Try To Give This Season A Chance – Again)

… When winter comes, our morning walks don’t end, but they are no longer a casual tiptoe through the woods. Winter walks are a deep-sea...