By Rita R. Robison Looking for new Labor Day recipes to brighten your Labor Day barbecue or party? Try these suggestions from allrecipes.com: Best Burgers Fried Chicken, Sides, and Drinks Lemonade and Other Drinks Whether you’re at home, out camping, or visiting others, have a great tasty Labor Day. Copyright... Read more →
By Rita R. Robison What’s happening in America this Labor Day? Travel About 33 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the Labor Day holiday weekend, AAA Travel projects. That’s a 2.9 percent increase from the 32.1 million people who traveled last year. Despite a sluggish... Read more →
By Rita R. Robison Looking for a last-minute Labor Day trip? Or, if you live near one of these cities, want to join in the celebrations at a top, fun spot? Here’s my list of America’s top 10 travel destinations for Labor Day 2012: New York City Orlando Las Vegas... Read more →
By Rita R. Robison This week, I’m the host for Blogging Boomer Carnival #274. The carnival is a collection of like-minded blogs cooperating to share their best stories of interest to the Baby Boomer Generation. What topics are boomer bloggers writing about as summer winds down and Labor Day approaches?... Read more →
By Rita R. Robison Energizer is recalling about 260,000 rotating night lights. The night lights can overheat and smoke, posing a burn hazard to consumers, Energizer and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a statement. Energizer has received nine reports of the night lights overheating, including three reports... Read more →
By Rita R. Robison Luckily my power is back on, so I can cook garden vegetables. My best consumer experience: Potatoes and kale from my garden Last year, I tried to grow kohlrabi. The bugs attacked with a vengeance. The year before that, I planted cabbage. Also, a bug disaster.... Read more →
By Rita R. Robison Sometimes when I’m blogging into the night, infomercials come on and drone in my ear because I’m too intent on my writing to get up and go to the living room to turn them off. The other night Kevin Trudeau, who’s been the subject of many... Read more →
By Rita R. Robison Last week, the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities filed a lawsuit against U.S. Department of Education rules that would require private institutions to disclose to students how much debt they could accumulate by enrolling. Preliminary data released by the department earlier this year indicates... Read more →
By Rita R. Robison I admit it. Sometimes I don’t get my vegetables cooked. Rotten, they go in the compost container. Forty percent of food in the United States today is wasted. That’s more than 20 pounds of food per person every month, at a cost of $165 billion each... Read more →
By Rita R. Robison A voluntary program for federal employees and their agencies would allow retirement-eligible employees the option of switching to part-time work. They would draw a partial salary and a partial annuity, both prorated according to the time worked, reports an article in The Washington Post. The program... Read more →