Retirement dreams squashed

No rest for all: For some seniors, a comfortable retirement is not possible.

I REMEMBER a recent conversation with two friends, a married couple, about Bob Buford’s book Halftime.

In it, Buford – a Texas tycoon who made his fortune from cable television – splits life into two halves; the first is a quest for success and the second, a quest for significance. In this paradigm, people spend the first part of their lives acquiring assets for themselves, including an education and a career, and the second part giving back.