Recently my daughter set up a successful home exchange vacation in Seattle. When I posted about it, I received a comment from Anne Pottinger, a boomer who runs the ExchangeHomes.com Web site and writes the ExchangeHomes.Blog.com. I asked Anne if she would do an e-mail interview about the benefits of... Read more →
If a man approaches you in a parking lot and tells you that he has a tool in his trunk that can smooth out the dents in your car cheaply, don't fall for the scam. He might have a device that he'll use, but he'll ask for money upfront to... Read more →
When consumers have an overdraft, banks loan money to them by paying or authorizing checks, debit card purchases, ATM withdrawals, and preauthorized electronic payments despite insufficient funds to cover the amount of the transaction. Banks charge a fee for each overdraft and collect payment out of the next deposit into... Read more →
When New York Times blogger Tara Parker-Pope wrote a post on "Flip-Flops May Lead to Foot Pain," she received 200 comments on her blog Well from people who loved and hated their flip-flops. In her post, Parker-Pope reported on research from Auburn University in Alabama that looked at the biomechanics... Read more →
If no safety issues exist, would you approve of the use of cell phones on airplanes? More middle aged people supported the idea than opposed it in a 2007 survey by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics. About 40 percent of those age 35 to 64 said... Read more →
As a boomer consumer, is the information provided on Wikipedia helpful to you? If so, how do you use it? Wikipedia is an online, free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It has approximately seven billion visitors per month and more than 233 million each day, according to the Web site... Read more →
Amy Sherman, a mental health counselor, believes boomers can get what they want in mid-life if they take charge and reshape their vision for the future. In Sherman's e-book, "Distress-Free Aging: A Boomer's Guide to Creating a Fulfilled and Purposeful Life," she sets out 10 strategies boomers can use to... Read more →
It’s two days until the Olympic Games. Since I haven’t watched television for about a decade, I need some advice on how to watch the event. Do you try to watch everything? Watch events with American participants? Watch events that might result in a gold for the United States? Or... Read more →
Chocolate contains higher levels of health-promoting flavonoids than apples or orange juice, a recent study shows. Flavonoids are important because they contain antioxidants that block the action of harmful free radicals. Free radicals are produced when oxygen burns glucose in cells to release energy. Unchecked, free radicals damage cell components... Read more →
In the final days of the Bush administration, the White House is working to get federal agencies to weaken the regulation of hazardous substances. Scientists who usually have input into regulatory processes are complaining, according an article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, “Agencies Asked to Ease Safety Rules." Among the... Read more →