Archive for June, 2017

How Modern Technology Shapes Our Relationships

How Modern Technology Shapes Our Relationships

| June 24, 2017 | 0 Comments |

I wanted to reach out to you regarding an fascinating new book that I think may be of interest, as it focuses on family and mature life. In The Stuff of Family Life (May 15, 2017; ISBN: 978-1-4422-5479-4; Hardcover $34.00; 224 pages; Rowman & Littlefield), Sociology Professor Michelle Janning offers a timely look at how modern society and technology shapes our relationships […]

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Your Age Is Whatever You Want It To Be

Your Age Is Whatever You Want It To Be

| June 21, 2017 | 0 Comments |

“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.” – Helen Hayes It seems that age is the new “whatever you want it to be.” Fifty is the new 40, or is it 30? Lately, every time I hear someone’s age, it’s one number followed by a lower one. When it comes to our age, how we […]

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Four Ways to Tap Your Home Equity in Retirement

Four Ways to Tap Your Home Equity in Retirement

| June 21, 2017 | 0 Comments |

By Paul Fiore Home prices have surged in recent years and older Americans now hold collectively $6.2 trillion in home equity. That’s an average of more than $200,000 per senior household with equity. However, for many seniors it feels like the roof is caving in. That’s because their income from savings and retirement accounts is […]

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Tackling a Silent Killer – My Journey to a Cure for Hepatitis C

Tackling a Silent Killer – My Journey to a Cure for Hepatitis C

| June 21, 2017 | 2 Comments |

There’s a silent killer stalking the streets and it’s actively trying to kill 3.8 million Americans. Some know they’re being stalked, but most don’t. The killer was identified in 1989, so we know its name and what it looks like, but it wasn’t until three years ago, that a dependable way to deal with it […]

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How 6 Rock-Climbing Techniques Can Be  Your Secret Weapon In Life

How 6 Rock-Climbing Techniques Can Be Your Secret Weapon In Life

| June 13, 2017 | 0 Comments |

What could be your secret weapon in life? There are times when desire and commitment drive us out of any comfort zone we could possibly imagine. Manley Feinberg II thought about that fact one day as he stared at a wall of rock in front of him in the Aksu Valley, one of the last […]

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Capturing Family History on Social Media

Capturing Family History on Social Media

| June 13, 2017 | 0 Comments |

 Adapted from The Essential Social Media Marketing Handbook: A New Roadmap for Maximizing Your Brand, Influence and Credibility (Career Press) by Gail Z. Martin. Martin owns DreamSpinner Communications and consults with professionals and businesses in the U.S. and Canada on strategic social media. Social media is a huge game-changer for people researching their family history–and it’s […]

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Surviving What Life Throws At Us

Surviving What Life Throws At Us

| June 3, 2017 | 0 Comments |

The compelling story of Lori Morrison, former CEO of one of the largest food and wine wholesalers from Mexico to Panama was diagnosed with severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from a series of horrific events in her life: suicide of her first husband at the young age of 27, the death of her second […]

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