Buried Alive? Here’s How to Bust Clutter

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Have you noticed the plethora of television shows about clutter and hoarding? It seems we are a nation of collectors running out of room. While hoarding is a different problem altogether, clutter can be helped [...]

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The Daughter Trap

Co-Founder Susan Baida, will interview Laurel Kennedy, author of The Daughter Trap, about the impact of eldercare falling on the daughter.  Laurel is a nationally-recognized expert on Boomer issues. Founder of the multi-generational consulting firm [...]

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Can Gray Hair Be Sexy?

In our war-torn, terrorist-ridden, disease-ridden, inequitable, cataclysmically climate-changing world, it’s hard to imagine a more superficial topic, literally and figuratively, than hair color.  Believe me, after researching the topic for a year and interviewing hundreds of people across the country, I know this. But we are people, all of us, not saints. We worry about getting sick and whether we’ll have enough savings to take care of our parents and our children, let alone ourselves. And, in our various tiny ways, we try to contribute to solutions or salves for the big, profound problems – but we also care about how we look. And hair, and its color, as ridiculous as our obsession with it may be, is a very real, visible, emotionally central sign of what each of us is trying to be – a sort of personal flag. So please bear with me for one more column on the subject.     The majority of the women I interviewed, as research for my book, were highly concerned with a loss of sexual attractiveness as they aged, and the color of their hair was central to their sense of attractiveness

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Ginger’s Multiple Health Benefits

Ginger is one of those plants that seems to have been around forever and is a remedy for everything. The ginger plant is native to Southeast Asia, but is also grown in the United States, [...]

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