The Benefit of Seeing What You Can Achieve at Your Age
In May, I was fortunate to compete in the National Senior Games, a multi-event held for competition for athletes 50 years of age and older. This year, the youngest competitor was age 50 and the oldest competitor was age 103…
Read MoreHow to Maintain an Active Lifestyle if You Have Knee Arthritis?
The use of medications in the treatment of arthritis has been the treatment recommendation along with recommendation for increasing or maintaining activity. Unfortunately, many remain under the belief that exercise therapy…
Read MoreTeaching Style to Your Grandchildren: Fun Shopping with the Next Generation
Not all that long ago, women over 60 were relegated to the hinterlands of style. Phrases like “dressing like your grandma” or “dressing like an old lady” were the unkindest dig one could make about someone’s attire…
Read More3 Steps to Maintaining Youthful, Beautiful Skin
Everyone would love to have gorgeous, flawless skin, but what is the secret to success? For much of the past couple of years, we have been covering half of our face. We’ve suffered maskne, indentations, and half facial tans…
Read More5 Ways to Help Your Grandchildren Recover from Losing a Pet
There are many ways that you can support your grandchild with pet loss. Your grandchild may look to you to help them through their feelings of grief and mourning, to help them understand that death is normal. These five tips…
Read MoreWhy Having Adult Children Is Such a Different Experience
Have you ever stopped to think about how very odd it is to have children? It is, when you come to think about it, one of the most peculiar things we ever do. The decision to have children is an enormous leap in the dark, with very little control…
Read MoreWhy Your Children and Grandchildren Should Avoid Student Loans
Graduation time is here, and families will join to celebrate an important milestone in the lives of their graduates. Mixed with all the elaborate pomp and circumstance should be the harsh reality that student loans could make them indentured victims…
Read More4 Essential Knee Exercises to Make Climbing Stairs Easier and Pain-Free
You are standing at the bottom of that dreaded staircase once again. All you want is that maroon blouse from the armoire in the attic. Why would climbing 13 six-inch elevations feel like surmounting Mount Everest…
Read MoreReminiscing About Distant Grandchildren
When my first grandson was born nearly 16 years ago, I was busy with my work and my own life. His parents lived an hour away from my house, which made two hours travelling if I did the round trip on the same day…
Read More5 Ways Women Over 60 Can Maintain Healthy Joints and Overcome Arthritis
Few people escape joint aches and pains, however gracefully they age. Over 100 different types of arthritis can cause symptoms of pain, swelling, stiffness and restricted movement. Arthritis literally means inflammation of the joints…
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