Decoding Senior Care Options

Decoding Senior Care Options

Ever wonder what the difference is between adult day care and assisted living?  Or what a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) is and why it's so expensive? The folks at SeniorLiving.org have your back.  They've created a brilliant bubble graph that...

What Wanda B. Goines Will Teach You About Aging

What Wanda B. Goines Will Teach You About Aging

Have you heard about Internet sensation Wanda B. Goines?  She may be the only nonagenarian on record to have over 4.6 million views on Facebook. 92-year-old Wanda B. Goines lives in Cave Junction, Oregon in the house built by her father.  An artist and a calligrapher,...

Turn and Face the Strange

Turn and Face the Strange

So said David Bowie in “Changes,” a song about reinvention, defying your critics and stepping out on your own. Most people resist change.  They fear loss of control, uncertainty and surprise.  What if I fail?  Will there be more work?  Will I have to learn something...

Amy Schumer, Her Dad and the Power of Laughter

Amy Schumer, Her Dad and the Power of Laughter

I came late to the runaway train known as Amy Schumer.  I mean, I knew she was famous—or "newly famous" as she hilariously puts it, having done stand-up for years before reaching her current level of acclaim—but having cut my TV cable cord a while ago, I had never...

“The Intern” – You Talkin’ To Me?

“The Intern” – You Talkin’ To Me?

I have yet to see the new Nancy Meyers film, “The Intern,” but judging from the trailer it looks like we’re in for the senior equivalent of a gay character whose main purpose on screen is to cheer up or dress down (or both) straight characters, and help them evolve as...