Who I Am (And Why I Finally Stopped Holding Back)
Straight talk from a 73-year-old man who’s lived it, lost it, and learned what matters.
Most folks spend their lives trying to be somebody.
At 73, I’m finally old enough to quit that game.
Name’s Fred Ferguson — some call me GeezerWise.
A title I earned the slow, hard way: through mistakes, years, losses, and a stubborn refusal to stop learning.
I’ve built businesses. I’ve abandoned a few.
I played in the make-money-online arena long enough to understand its tricks, its charm, and its traps.
But grief… politics… and a world cracking down the middle have a way of sobering a man. Somewhere along that road, a simple truth caught up to me:
I’m too damn old to stay quiet.
So I set down the marketing script and picked up the pen that writes the things a man actually means.
These days I write about the stuff nobody can afford to ignore anymore:
the uneasy, lopsided Canada–U.S. relationship
political theatre that treats citizens like collateral
global power shifts hiding behind headlines
the price of telling the truth
the cost of pretending everything is fine
I’m not here to impress you.
I’m not here to convert you.
And I sure as hell am not here to sell you something.
This newsletter is free.
Not as a gimmick — as a principle.
I’m writing the work I want to leave behind when I’m done here.
What you’ll find from me is straight talk — sometimes sharp, sometimes quiet, always honest. A man gets only so many years. These are mine, and this writing is how I’m choosing to spend them.
If that resonates, pull up a chair.
If it doesn’t, no hard feelings — we all walk our own trails.
— Fred (GeezerWise)
Old enough to know better.
Still stubborn enough to say it anyway.
