Make-up with Dustin Lujan – Keeping Your Brushes for a Lifetime
February 21, 2012
One of the main questions I get after all the glitz and glamour of achieving a beautiful look is, “How do I wash my makeup brushes?” I have heard that people use baby shampoo, hand soap, dish washing liquid, dip them into rubbing alcohol or peroxide, or use the cleanser that the brand sells. Although [...]
Nights with the Florida Panthers
February 19, 2012
BY STEVE WINSTON In a world of unpredictability, there’s always been something comforting about the Florida Panthers, our National Hockey League team. For example, over the past decade, they’ve been the most consistent team in the league – at missing the playoffs (they’ve missed it ten consecutive seasons – an NHL record). Without a doubt, they’re [...]
Ron Paul and the Bard
February 17, 2012
BY DICK METHIA Ron Paul lost the Maine Republican primary to Mitt Romney by a squeaker, just a couple of hundred votes. Exit interviews with voters in Maine and elsewhere indicate that voters like the Texan’s libertarian views. They just don’t think he sounds presidential. Paul’s advisors are now urging the retired country doctor to [...]
Single? Enjoy A Girlfriend Getaway This Valentine’s Season
February 14, 2012
BY KITT WALSH According to blogger Tom Blake on his website Finding Love After 50, (www.findingloveafter50.com/harvard_husband.html) between the ages of 50-69 there are 1.7 single women for every single man. If you are seeking a husband, that statistic may make you feel like fastening a noose—but, as it turns out, you are in the minority. A [...]
College for Older Adults
February 13, 2012
BY GAYLE THOMPSON There was a time when college, and higher education in general, was almost exclusively reserved for young adults fresh out of high school, who were still figuring out what career path they wanted to follow. Back then, anyone over the age of 25 or 30 who was sitting in a college classroom [...]
Boosters, Backers & Bunnies
February 11, 2012
BY DICK METHIA Mitt Romney squeezed all the oranges out of the Florida Republican primary and then ran the table in Nevada. The two states gave Romney a huge boost in his slog to the Republican presidential nomination. Mitt Romney looked like Goliath. Then voters in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri cast their lot big time [...]
Move over 50, 30 is here
February 9, 2012
BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL “Actress Stone and others like her,” read 1 Across of the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. As I put my pen down on the first box to write the letter “S”, I realized that my answer — so obviously the plural of “Sharon” — would not fit. I sat for a [...]
Affordable Vacationing: Try a Home Exchange
February 7, 2012
BY KITT WALSH When she felt overworked, my mother used to talk about wanting to run away and join the circus. Jut lock the front door and don’t look back—headed for somewhere exotic. Today we have such a solution: Home-Swapping … just the thing for the “I-hate-my-life” blues. Step into someone else’s shoes and enjoy [...]
On the Campaign Trail: Sore Loser
February 3, 2012
By Dick Methia I attended a parochial grammar school. They called it that because the teachers actually taught grammar then. My favorite teacher was Sister Lillian, a beautiful, smart woman who could have been a corporate executive today. One of Sister’s key lessons was how to be a good sport. Along with subjects, verbs and [...]
Come Travel with Me: My Spa Days, Part 2
February 1, 2012
BY MARY JANE HORTON Several years ago, my stays at two spas came at the perfect time. I had just finished my physical therapy after a freak accident – a woman who had a stroke behind the wheel hit me with her car when I was on my morning walk – and I was ready [...]
Come Travel with Me: Favorite Spas, Part 1
January 29, 2012
BY MARY JANE HORTON Come with me as I indulge my lifelong wanderlust. As a kid, I travelled to Switzerland and all the major cities in Europe with my parents; I worked as a travel writer in my twenties and thirties and then had kids. We traveled a faIr amount as a family, but then [...]
Activities for Grandparents
January 27, 2012
By Gayle Thompson It’s one of the most special relationships a child can form–the bond between grandchild and grandparent. Grandparents tend to not notice the second helping of dessert and the messy bedroom, and to think every drawing their grandchild plasters on their refrigerator is the best artwork they’ve ever seen. But when the endless [...]
Oranges and Orators
January 25, 2012
BY DICK METHIA It’s not just snowbirds encamped in the Sunshine State this month. The remaining four Republican presidential candidates are tearing through orange groves rounding up voters to help them win Florida’s important primary Jan. 31. This political foursome is a more entertaining attraction than Sea World. Former front runner Mitt Romney, desperate to [...]
Why Women Don’t Mind Erectile Dysfunction
January 23, 2012
BY KATHY FOUST For a man, there might not be anything more embarrassing or draining to the ego than to have erectile dysfunction. While it’s certainly understandable, sometimes it’s good to shut out the ego and listen to what the woman has to say. Women who say they don’t mind aren’t just being nice. They [...]
What They Don’t Tell You About LASIK Surgery
January 20, 2012
BY KITT WALSH You can’t take it anymore. You are done with glasses—taking them off, putting them on, losing that damn little screw and, truth to tell as we get older, often misplacing the glasses themselves. Contacts are their own pains-in-the-nether regions—solution bottles to carry, little cases to clean, and your eyes seem to be [...]
Me and My Cars
January 18, 2012
BY STEVE WINSTON Most guys our age can rattle off every car they’ve ever owned. But not me. I’ve owned so many that I can’t remember them all. But I do remember the stories … My first car was a blue 1960 Studebaker Lark, inherited from my mother. I remember two things about that car. [...]
Saving a Second Marriage
January 16, 2012
BY GAYLE THOMPSON No one ever plans on walking down the aisle and promising “until death do us part,” only to face off in divorce court years down the road. But with the divorce rate at 50% in the United States, many people find themselves single later in life, with hopes of still finding lasting [...]
What’s in a Name?
January 14, 2012
BY DICK METHIA William Shakespeare famously wrote, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But Billy the Bard never ran for president. In this year’s Republican presidential race, to have the word “moderate” stuck to you is worse than having an angry skunk in your garage. Like a thunderbolt from Olympus, Newt [...]
50 and Unemployed
January 12, 2012
BY CARMEN M. HUBBARD In years past, you’ve weathered the storm of financial uncertainty. You took an extra job to make ends meet when necessary. You went back to school to earn your degree to be considered for that long-awaited promotion—all while raising children. So how is it that decades of hard work and dedication [...]
Teeth Whitening: What They Don’t Tell You
January 10, 2012
BY KITT WALSH As if we don’t have enough to deal with watching crow’s feet appear and upper arms that jiggle no matter how many curls we do, there is another sign of aging that tips off the world we aren’t 20 anymore: yellowing teeth. To give credit where it is due, our teeth have [...]
They’re Off and Running
January 8, 2012
BY DICK METHIA Iowa has spoken. Sort of. Iowa caucus voters’ historically strong voice was a mumble this year with three candidates sharing top honors. The top Republican vote getters in the farm state left Wednesday morning for even frostier New Hampshire in search of The Mandate. Between now and January 10, Mitt Romney, Rick [...]
A New Year’s Musing: Fifty and Happy
January 6, 2012
BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL Everyone wants me to be different. A friend invited me to a seminar she was running on “How to Change Your Life NOW!” News stories are reaching out to me to transform my appearance by changing the way I eat, wear my hair, and choose my make up; except for the [...]
Considering Bankruptcy?
January 4, 2012
BY STEVE WINSTON If you’re visiting this site, there’s a good chance you came of age—personally and professionally —in the Eighties. Ahhh, the Eighties. We became known as the “Me Generation.” We became Yuppies, 24/7 devotees of the good life … the best clothes, the best clubs, the best cars, the best restaurants, all provided [...]
8 New Year’s Resolutions For The Inner Person
January 1, 2012
BY KITT WALSH Every year at the time, we are bombarded with talk of New Year’s Resolutions. People fervently vow to lose 30 pounds or run 10 miles daily or a host of other things overwhelmingly abandoned, studies show, by February 15th. So instead of setting unrealistic physical goals, I try to work on my [...]