24 Ways to Keep Love in Your Life After 50
Both love and sex keep a relationship together. If you don’t work at it, one or the other or both can fall by the wayside.
Our First Christmas Tree Together
It was winter in New York. Snow and Christmas trees for sale on every corner. Ah, but for what price?
Boomer & Senior Suicide on the Rise
Boomers are approaching their senior years facing the fact that every ninety minutes a person 65 or older commits suicide.
Humor: The Nightmare of Planning the Company Christmas Party
‘Tis the Season to be jolly. Too bad nobody told the Human Research Director.
Creative Ways of Finding a Job After 50.
Tough times require that you do things differently than everyone else and radically different than the usual ways.
Falling in Love While Grieving.
By Gloria Lintermans & Marilyn Stolzman, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. The unimaginable has happened; you are a widow or widower. Mourning your loss has been the focus of your life for the past year or two. Finally, as you begin to surface from your profound grief, with a deep breath and lot or a little trepidation [...]
Heterosexual Boomer Women Moving in Together
By Gary Geyer It started happening around the time of ‘Kate & Allie’ and ‘The Golden Girls.’ The reason, “being there for each other.” It’s not sweeping the nation just yet, but the idea is gaining momentum. Sociologists and demographers have noted the growing interest of baby boomer and senior women to team up [...]
Seniors Going to Prison
By Gary Geyer If you think growing old can be tough, try doing it in a prison. One segment of the 50+ population that is seldom mentioned in stories about our so-called golden years involves those who face the fact that they will most likely spend the remainder of their lives behind bars. Prison conditions, [...]
Harvard Medical’s 11 Cholesterol Cutting Foods
Harvard Medical School, one of the most respected sources of nutritional advice for consumers, has recommended 11 foods including nuts and fatty fish that make easy work of lowering cholesterol. The newly published list contains quite different foods that are all capable of lowering cholesterol but do so in different ways. Some deliver soluble [...]
My Mother, Myself
By Ethel Lee-Miller I recently started walking at the mall with a friend. We share the time it takes to do several loops. The faster we walk, the more we talk, mostly about relationships, particularly mother-daughter. We both had our share of conflict with our mothers. I had been a rebellious teenager in the [...]
Boomer Women and their Financial Future.
By Kim Kirmmse Toth What is one of a boomer woman’s worst nightmares? Being a ‘bag lady.’ Have you ever worried about that? Even if it’s not to that extreme, it is not unusual for a woman to worry about her financial future. Here are some tips on what not to do: Expect [...]
5 Ways to Conquer Empty Nest Syndrome
By Kim Kirmmse Toth Empty Nest Syndrome is a feeling of great loss or sadness when a child leaves home to go to college or just to get out on their own. If you are the child’s mother or mother figure, you may experience a true sense of loss, loneliness or even worthlessness. You [...]
