Laverne Bardy-Pollak, author of the humor column “Laverne’s View” for 50 Plus Monthly, a regional New Jersey newspaper, and a columnist for the nationally syndicated Senior Wire news service. Her essays, articles and poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. A resident of Newton, New Jersey, she has compiled a book of her columns and is writing a novel.
I've been retired from the corporate world for nearly 15 years. As I nudge toward 70, my new job is…