At last, we’re having sunny weather in the Pacific Northwest. I had fun gardening yesterday. When I was at the Farmers’ Market last week, I bought twice as many garden plants as usual for my container garden – six cucumber and six zucchini plants. With food and gas prices so... Read more →
Have you heard of the Law of Attraction? Have you used it to achieve your life’s goals? Would you like to know more about it? The Law of Attraction is the principal that “like attracts like.” People are thinking and feeling all the time, and they draw into their lives... Read more →
The typical backyard barbecue that you’ll prepare for your friends and relatives offers you and your guests about 2,260 calories, not including dessert. Eileen Silva, N.D., offers this menu instead: Turkey Burgers, Vegetarian Burgers, and Poultry Sausages Chicken, Fish, or Seafood Grilled Vegetables with Olive Oil and Herbs Grilled Pineapple... Read more →
How are your plans for retirement? Or, if you’ve retired already, how are things going? Previous studies have shown that about 33 percent of boomers were ill prepared for retirement. However, a new study pegs the number much higher. In a study by the McKinsey Global Institute that examined the... Read more →
When I was a teenager, I thought about having a nose job. My ancestors are English, and some of us in my family have noses that are a bit sharp. My family, however, could barely afford braces for our teeth, so cosmetic surgery was out of the question. When I... Read more →
When I was growing up on apple ranches in Central Washington, the word botulism was scary. We often canned fruits, water-packed in glass jars, but not vegetables. Our gardens abundantly grew green beans, but we seldom canned them. Green beans and other vegetables don’t have acid, and they’re more likely... Read more →
When I was reading blogs recently, I saw a boomer marketing blog that gushingly congratulated the graphic artist who created one of those Internet wrinkle cream ads where a line sweeps over the wrinkled-woman’s face and she turns into a 20 year old. The big topic of discussion was that... Read more →
PreRetirementLife offers an online directory of what it calls the 500 most useful Web sites to help adults age 50-64 meet life’s challenges and opportunities. The sites are organized in 14 topic areas including Health & Medical, Anti-Aging, Financial Planning, Travel, Entertainment, and Caregiving. Visitors submit ratings for each site... Read more →
In 1974, Robert Krughoff decided to start Consumers’ Checkbook magazine after he left an auto repair shop for the third time and realized when he’d gone a half mile that the problem still wasn’t fixed. Krughoff was going to have to bring his car back a fourth time. “I thought,... Read more →
On July 1, 2008, drivers in Washington state, where I live, will be prohibited from using handheld mobile phones while driving. Text messaging while driving was prohibited as of Jan. 1, 2008. Washington state will join Connecticut, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, and some local jurisdictions in... Read more →