9 Behavior Patterns of Healthy Senior Weight Loss: Forget Diets, Think Behavior!
“Thin behavior” has fascinated me for years. I just don’t get it. I don’t mean the kind of behavior where skinny kids squeezed through fence slats in the alley, or where my teenaged friends stretched thin, nubile bodies on the beach at Shady Oak Lake as I huddled on my towel. Read More
New Year’s Resolutions for Mature Minds: Set Concepts, Not Lists
While home visiting my family over the holidays, my sister mentioned a few of the resolutions she’d set for herself this year. Read More
6 Amazing Types of Women I Met On My Viking Star Mediterranean Cruise
I recently had the amazing opportunity to travel with Viking Cruises on a Mediterranean adventure. It was called Journey to Antiquities! It explored the ancient civilizations of the western world, visiting Italy, Sicily, Greece and Turkey. Here was our itinerary!
Read MoreInternet Trends for 2020 and How They Impact Boomers
The Internet is still growing in leaps and bounds, even though it’s been around for a few decades. Every year, more and more of the things we do every day can be done over the Internet…
Read MoreHow to Reclaim Your Sensuality Over 60
Do you remember a time when sex and intimacy were the most important elements in your life? Perhaps in recent years you’ve found that the urge and desire to have sex has dwindled…
Read MoreHappiness with Less: How to Achieve It Through the Holidays and into the New Year
One by one I picked up the memories wrapped in each ornament and hung them on the tree. Pictures materialized in my mind of a beloved’s head bent while creating these ornaments in his shop, little fingers gingerly gluing a star on a felt Christmas tree, a friend’s offering of a token of nature, a sister’s foreboding of a life passing. These are my company in the dark days of December. Read More
Get Ready for a Royal Treat: Mary Berry’s BBC Holiday Special
It ‘s probably as close as any of us will ever come to having tea with the Queen. On December 16 at 8:30 p.m., BBC One will gift its viewers with A Berry Royal Christmas…
Read MoreRedesigning Holiday Traditions to Fit Your Life Now
Once upon a time, in a log cabin far, far away, snuggled into 15 pristine acres of Vermont, I used to host Thanksgiving events fit for a Hallmark snow globe… It smells of cinnamon and mulled wine…
Read MoreWARNING! Spend 7 Days in Portugal and You May End Up Staying in Europe Forever!
Did you ever visit a new place and suddenly have the feeling of “coming home?” This is exactly how many people describe their first impression of Portugal. For some, it is the warm climate and spectacular scenery that makes a strong first impression. For others, it is the warm smiles…
Read MoreSleep Tight: 10 Tips to Improve Your Health Through Solid Sleep
I’m nearly 70, and I figure I’ve spent over 203,000 hours of my life snoozing. That’s 8,500 24-hour days, 1200 weeks, 300 months, or 25 solid years of sleep. Call me Rip Van Winkle. I’ve loved every minute of it. Read More