Susan Klopfer
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Susan Klopfer Writes, Speaks and Blogs on Retirement, Civil Rights and Diversity Expert
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- Retirement, Civil Rights, Diversity
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Thank you for stopping by. As a retiree, I write, blog and speak on retirement, civil rights and diversity. Formerly, an acquisitions and development editor for Prentice Hall, a jou alist and technical writer, my computer book, Abort!, Retry!, Fail! was named an alte ate selection by the Book of-the-Month Club. My upcoming ebook Ready To Retire? Way To Go! [A Unique Guide For Peaceful and Happy Retirement] is set for fall publication. The civil rights books I've written focus on people like Emmett Till, Fannie Lou Hamer, Aaron Henry, Amzie Moore and other civil rights foot soldiers, emphasizing unsolved Mississippi Delta murders from mid 1950s on. This September, my husband and I are looking forward to becoming expats, living in Cuenca, Ecuador. We'll be taking Popsicle (our cat) and Ralph (our dog) along on this journey. You are invited to come along, too! Hasta entonces (until then), Susan. P.S. I love to help retired people find new things to do and see, so please come along as we explore retirement and "expatting."
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Retirement Monologues News (online newspaper)
http://retirementmonologuesnews.com/
Retirement Monologues Scribd Collection (14+ articles)
http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/3564341
How To Start a Blog That Matters
http://awomansretirementmonologues.blogspot.com/p/how-you-can-write-blog-that-matters.html
Where Rebels Roost; Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited
http://themiddleoftheinte et.com/OnlineBooks/Rebels/index.html
Excerpts from Who Killed Emmett Till?
http://themiddleoftheinte et.com/WhoKilledEmmettTillExcerpts.pdf
Diversity News Online (online newspaper)
http://paper.li/sklopfer/1290499511
Susan Klopfer's Mississippi
http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/susan-klopfers-mississippi/
Foreword: Where Rebels Roost, Benjamin T. Greenberg
http://minorjive.typepad.com/hungryblues/2005/07/foreword_for_su.html
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Susan Klopfer Audio & Video Programs
Susan Klopfer Books
Coming Soon: Ready to Retire? Way to Go! (Guide)
http://awomansretirementmonologues.blogspot.com/p/ready-to-retire-way-to-go.html
Who Killed Emmett Till? print
http://www.amazon.com/Killed-Emmett-Till-Susan-Klopfer/dp/0982604912/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339003320&sr=8-1
Cash In On Diversity & Who Killed Emmett Till? eBooks
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/63393
Susan's Civil Rights Books
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/thedelta
The Emmett Till Book
http://www.amazon.com/Emmett-Till-Book-Susan-Orr-Klopfer/dp/1411638433/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338934316&sr=8-1
Amazon Profile & Book Review
https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3I6D4H2BC014N?ie=UTF8&ref_=sv_ys_4
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As More Baby Boomers Moving Into Retirement -- What Do They Want? (Stats and Facts)
DO YOU HEAR a growing rumble in the distance? Chalk it up to the coming the Baby Boomer Express, an enormous number of older folks in this country getting ready to retire. In fact, every 7 seconds an American turns 50 -- more than 12,500 people every day, the U.S. Census Bureau reports. Just three years ago, Boomers began turning 65, took their IRAs and pensions (if they had them), and started quitting their jobs and drawing social security en masse. Who are these boomer-people, and why do they seem to scare so many politicians and younger folks?
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Retirees Turn to Alte ative Medicine For Self Help -- And For Extra Income
Who knows? This could have been an overheard conversation at any office water cooler: James: Hey John, I'm retiring next month. John: Congratulations, man. This will be the beginning of the rest of your life. James (to himself): Whoa. Why did I open my mouth? Is John saying he thinks I am going to die or something? SAY YOU ARE James. How does John's message of congratulations really come across? Isn't retirement a scary word for most folks? Doesn't it conjure feelings of anxiety and depression, anticipation or relief?
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Expat Retirement Works Best When Cultural Differences Understood and Appreciated
To survive as a stranger in a strange land – a visitor in a new land – requires education and enough personal depth to avoid unfair prejudices that result from ethnocentrism. AFTER WORKING nearly eight months months to get a special “pensionada” visa, scouting out the correct pet carriers to bring along her dog and cat, holding umpteen garage sales and finally selling her mission-style bungalow at a small profit – all to retire in Paraguay as an expat – Bess G. flew off to retirement paradise. By the end of three months, Bess returned home.
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Cultural Survival Rules Keep Some Retired Expats From Packing Bags, Going Home
AS A NEWLY retired person, do you REALLY expect EVERYTHING to go as planned? Consider the retiree who chooses to move to another country as an expat and then winds up going back home, giving up on the dream of living in a new culture because he or she can't seem to make needed cultural adjustments.
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Retirees With a Business Plan, Written Goals Can Earn Extra Income
"I thought I left business and work and all of that snarly stuff - and now you want me to write down my business plans? To write down my goals? NOT!!" Sue is a newly retired office manager turned blogger who wants to make a small business of what she is doing -- blogging about business.
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Some 57 Years Later, Emmett Till Story Still Being Told; Civil Rights History in Mississippi
WHY ARE WE STILL talking about the murder of 14-year-old Emmett TilL some 50-plus years postmortem? I blogged on the topic last August upon the 56th anniversary of this young African American boy’s brutal death back in 1955. Now his name is frequently appearing as national and international reporters, civil rights observers and historians link some aspects of Till's Mississippi lynching to the recent killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida.
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Some Retirees Make Extra Money By Speaking, Selling Books, Reports at Back of the Room
ARE YOU A retiree who is looking for something intriguing and fun to do, while making extra money? If your answer is yes, you are not alone. In fact, most older employees (65 percent) recently told researchers they would like to have some form of work in their retirement, according to a 2011 Harris Interactive survey of 1,001 people age 55 and older commissioned by Sun America.
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You Don't Have to Be a 1-Percenter to Enjoy Retirement, Retired Nurse Discovers
Retirement planning means far more than addressing money issues, Jane C told me. The retired nurse expected to feel happy upon retirement, but found herself, instead, "just miserable nearly every day." Sitting at her kitchen table, drinking a cool ice tea, Jane told me her story. As a medical professional, Jane knew that her own loneliness, sadness, loss of sleep and other symptoms are often described as depression, so she set out to fix the problem by discovering a proactive approach to retirement - finding something worthwhile to do while adding to her retirement income base.r
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Research Data Solid On Diversity Success, Failure
"You are asking me if I am surprised?" Bill and Kay are sharing a private moment talking about diversity changes planned for their regional bank, along with the initial executive board response. "Well, I knew we would have some resistance from at least one board member after we presented the plan. I guess I am a little surprised that Jerry K. used 'research' to back his opposition, saying diversity training simply doesn't work," Kay tells Bill. "Next board meeting, I'll have even better data," Kay smiles.
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Remembering an American Civil Rights Hero, Medgar Evers, on Anniversary of His Murder in Mississippi
“People who lived through those days will tell you that something shifted in their hearts after Medgar Evers died, something that put them beyond fear…. At that point a new motto was born: After Medgar, no more fear.” Maryanne Voller, Esquire THERE MAY BE SOME WHO still ask "who was Medgar Evers and if they recognize the name, at all, what role did he have in the modern civil rights movement?" After all, American history books rarely do much service in telling the true and complete stories of this country’s early and modern civil rights movements.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Susan Klopfer
"I think that every time a man stands for an ideal or speaks out against injustice, he sends out a tiny ripple of hope." Aaron Henry, Mississippi civil rights leader
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THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA is not a place I would have picked to live and if you had asked me a few years ago what I knew about the region, it would have been a puzzle since I knew nothing of its history or culture — I’d never even heard of the Delta Blues. My husband, Fred, was hired by a private group to be the mental health director for inmates in Mississippi’s state-run prisons, and so our lives took on a new dimension as we made a small, red-brick house on the grounds of Parchman Penitentiary our new Sunflower County home, in the heart of the Delta. Eventually, I would enjoying smelling the richness of the alluvial soil and appreciate where we had been dropped. But not the afte oon of my arrival.