Butter Your Bread: A Sandwich Generation’s Guide for the Next Generation
Soggy sandwiches—yuk! As soon as I could wield a butter knife, Mom taught me to butter both slices of bread. Butter (or margarine or peanut…
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How to Live with a Narcissist
Narcissists can be horribly frustrating. Everyone probably knows one — people who are so wrapped up in themselves, so demanding and demeaning, that they leave…
Centenarian Olympics
Throughout the past century—ever since Alois Alzheimer first identified an “unusual disease of the cerebral cortex”—Alzheimer’s disease has undergone a slow trajectory of increased understanding…
The Senior’s Guide to Online Financial Scams
As a senior citizen, the internet affords a number of opportunities — to stay in touch with family members, to reconnect with old friends and…
How to Determine and Boost Your Self-Esteem
Most of us have experienced gut wrenching times when our self-esteem suffers a crushing blow. At other times, it may seem that our self-esteem is…
Top 5 Things to Know About Genetic Testing
Advances in genetic testing are offering individuals more information than ever before about their genetic makeup and are providing opportunities for empowered decision-making related to…
How to Have More Fun and Meaning in Retirement
A blank calendar filled with nothing but free time can be every bit as stressful as a packed work week. That’s the surprising fact that…
Partner Up with Alexa For Personal Assistance
If you are an older adult (or even not so old), you may want to partner up with Alexa for a little help with the…
Stay Active and Fit
Engaging in daily physical activity will positively impact your all-around health and well-being. You do not have to be a member of a fancy gym…
Van Gogh’s Mirror
On March 30, 1852, Anna Cornelia Carbentus and Rev. Theodorus Van Gogh, living in southern Netherlands, gave birth to their first child, Vincent Willem Van…