Nearly 500,000 women die from heart disease each year. Thousands of baby boomer women are among them. While many women fear getting cancer, especially breast cancer, women are 10 times more likely to die from heart disease than breast cancer. Since women may have different symptoms than men, they need... Read more →
My sliding glass doors are fogging up on the inside. It’s time for a replacement. If you’ve had new windows installed recently, what kind did you get? Vinyl, wood, or metal? What brand did you choose? Has it performed well? Did you have terrible problems with any manufacturer? Does Milgard... Read more →
In these tough economic times, baby boomers may be delaying retirement and working longer in their current jobs or looking for new employment opportunities. And, with layoffs mounting, more boomers are losing their jobs and are in the job market. The 2008 AARP Best Employers for Workers Over 50 listing... Read more →
It’s women who are the “deciders” at home, but people are mixed on whether they’re more comfortable working with men or women in positions of authority. Women call the shots at home In 43 percent of couples interviewed, it's the woman who makes decisions in more areas than the man,... Read more →
Plays, concerts, and sporting events are big draws for baby boomers. The Better Business Bureau is warning people who are trying to buy hard-to-get event tickets that they might have trouble when shopping online with TicketsMyWay.com. Hundreds of complaints against TicketsMyWay.com, run by Las Vegas-based Event Tickets LLC, have been... Read more →
Financial adviser Suze Orman has said it before, adamantly. Stop spending and get out of debt. Today, on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Orman said it again, even more emphatically, and she gave her opinions on how consumer spending and corporate greed have led to our current financial crisis. Financial institutions... Read more →
It’s going to take time for any bailout of the financial markets to have an effect, Nomi Prins, former investment banker and author of “Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America,” said today on National Public Radio. That’s not good news. We’d all like this financial crisis to be... Read more →
Although millions of baby boomers use the Internet, they may not be aware of how to use it to locate coupon codes and printable coupons to slash their food bills and retail store costs. I recently received an e-mail to sign up for a coupon Web site. However, being a... Read more →
When I returned from my Miami vacation, I hoped that my container garden would be overrun with zucchinis. No such luck. I had six nice-sized zucchinis, half of which were entirely or partially chewed up by slugs. I was able to make Sautéed Zucchini with Tomato Sauce from the zucchinis... Read more →
This spring and summer, I’ve been busy blogging. So it surprised me when I went out in my yard and saw that branches from my mulberry tree were hanging over my roof – again. It’s important to keep branches from touching or hanging over a house. Ants and other insects... Read more →