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Screenless Paradise: A Case for a Phone Vacation

Picture the last time you shared a meal with another person at a restaurant. In the span of an hour: How many times did you glance at your phone? How many times did they look at theirs? And what about digital watch notifications? A dinner like this is where victory and loss collide. It’s absolutely a triumph that you managed to meet in person. But when you are together, because of an apparent bond to the screen, you are each still, at least attentionally, distant from one another...
October 30, 2025 Read More »
Purpose and Permanence: ManhattanLife Across Time, Part 2

Purpose and Permanence: ManhattanLife Across Time, Part 2

Manhattan Life Insurance flourished throughout the 1950s. This is partly due to the growing demand for supplemental health insurance and major medical plans, in general. By this time, house calls made up 10% of physician-patient encounters, a plummet from 40% in the 1930s. With improved specialization and newer technology, more people were visiting doctor’s offices and hospitals instead. But it is important to contextualize all this with an expansive, Cinemascope view.
July 12, 2025 Read More »
Living Up to The Tagline: Our Victories for Fixed Indemnity Insurance

Living Up to The Tagline: Our Victories for Fixed Indemnity Insurance

At ManhattanLife, fixed indemnity plans are important to our supplemental health insurance offerings as they provide consumers with medical insurance coverage options. Our tagline Standing By You. Since 1850. succinctly conveys our company’s mission of providing our policyholders with valuable and lasting medical insurance coverage options to meet their needs. That includes preserving the integrity of our offerings and supporting the needs of customers, going beyond the plans themselves.
March 14, 2025 Read More »
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A Promise Kept: Climbing to the Mount Kilimanjaro Summit

The distance is done. Powerful winds roll to the southeast, brushing past and enveloping you at once. Despite this, you remain steady and firmly planted to the point you’ve attained. The rocky and icy ground at your booted feet, terrain once rugged as it is treacherous, now feels almost smooth underneath, welcoming in a way, as if you’ve been expected for some time. A sundry of feelings lightly settles over you, like a warm blanket to counteract the unusually cold air. It is here that intense exhilaration is met with unprecedented calm and more, all tirelessly earned over the course of many days.
July 31, 2024 Read More »
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Forward, Still: Ruminating on Grief and Loss

It’s the socks. They’re unmissable even in this setting, a faux pas that should be called out here and now. Bright and swimming with a medley of colors that takes squinting to identify, echoing the tie-dye t-shirts so popular decades ago. Except this exact clothing has no apparent order to its look-at-me visage; it’s all entropy and devoid of style, dominated by something approaching pink and turquoise. And oh my, is that actually burnt orange? With each passing second, my shock mounts with intensity, while the wearer of said socks, a tall and lanky man, quietly coughs and moves his fist to his mouth, before lowering his hand and falling silent again, gazing forward like everyone else in the immediate radius...
July 31, 2025 Read More »
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Yoga 5 by 5: Potential Benefits and Basic Poses

We're all stories. These personal sagas assembled over time. There’s the childhood that seems endless. Followed by an adulthood that feels ridiculously rushed, yet glorious just the same. But throughout everything, sleek and topsy-turvy scenes alike, there are two constants: the mind and the body. Enter yoga, a resource that can bare great value when used to align both constants, strike balance, and regain control we either lack or misplaced.
April 29, 2024 Read More »
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Meaning What? Defining Insurance Words and Phrases

It’s important to understand the spectrum of options available to us concerning our healthcare and financial prospects. It also matters greatly that we have familiarity with the specific terminology used in product and service explanations. There are words and phrases that, once explained, can make the insurance plans and opportunities they’re a part of even more understandable, and thus, more beneficial for the policyholder or contract holder.
April 05, 2024 Read More »
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Upsides to Aging: 10 Reasons Getting Older is Great

When does time itself become a nemesis to defeat? When does the aging that attends it become a process we must race to resist? These large shifts to competing with time’s passage as we mature can happen at any age. The change is different for everyone. But there are still advantages to getting older that have nothing to do with what our high-definition mirrors reflect. Physical concerns completely aside, aging is quite wonderful. Here are ten reasons why.
March 14, 2024 Read More »