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Recent Friday Reads
Flying Home for the Holidays: What Changed at the Airport, and What’s Still Your Right
Your shoes can stay on, the wrong ID now costs $45, and you're entitled to free help from the curb to the gate. Here's what to know before Thanksgiving week, and my pick on whether PreCheck is worth it.
AI After 60: Five Everyday Tasks It Can Do Better Than Google
Search is still the right tool for anything that has to be true today. But for the questions that depend on you, an AI assistant does what a page of links can't. Here are five worth trying, and the one rule that keeps you safe.
The Helper and the Robot
AI assistants and in-home companion robots are arriving fast. Here is how to use the first, what the second can and can't do, and how both might help you enjoy more of your life, not less. I'm not a medical, legal or financial professional, however…
The Ultimate Guide to Hanging Up and Calling Back
Phone Scam Awareness Imagine this rings. Caller ID says it’s your bank; call back if you doubt it. However, a calm voice says someone’s trying to empty your account. What do you do? https://youtu.be/WvMGosSd1es There’s one answer, and it’s a rule, not a skill. Hang…
The One With the Screen
Part two. While you weren't looking, Google walked away from this category — so the only questions left are whether you want a screen at all, and which size.
The Thing on the Counter
Amazon and Google now sell roughly the same hundred-dollar speaker. What it’s actually good for, what it really costs, the privacy trade, and the one I’d buy.
The Last Password You’ll Have to Remember
The email looked right, so you typed your password — and that is the whole problem. A passkey is a key your device holds and never hands over, so a convincing fake page has nothing to take. What it actually is, what happens if you lose your phone, and whether you are locked into Apple or Google.
The Accounts That Outlive You
Your will covers the money. Nobody wrote the part about the photographs. Being next of kin does not get you into someone’s account — but Apple, Google and Facebook each have a setting that does, and all three take one evening to turn on.
The Policy You Buy and Hope Never to Read
Travel insurance is sold in nine seconds on a checkout page. Medicare mostly stops at the border, the benefit worth comparing first is medical evacuation — not cancellation — and two clocks that start the day you put down a deposit decide whether the policy is worth anything.
Twenty-Five Years of Carrying It
There is now a generation of adults who learned about September 11th the way we learned about Pearl Harbor — from a textbook. That changes our job. We stop being witnesses and become custodians. Three duties: tell it small, tell it whole, tell it forward.
Where Americans Are Actually Moving Abroad After 55
General information only — this is not immigration, tax, or financial advice. Requirements change and vary by consulate; confirm current rules with the relevant embassy or a qualified immigration attorney before making plans. Every retirement-abroad article promises paradise and a lower cost of living. Fewer…
Fall Term
What to Take This Autumn, and Where It's Free Friday, August 28, 2026 · Learning · 9 min read Last month we laid out the landscape — the senior tuition waivers, the OLLI network, the $0-to-$65-a-year math of going back to school after 55. If…