Technologically Challenged By Patricia Quigley I checked. I swear I checked. When I sent out a LinkedIn request to about a dozen friends and associates a few months ago, I saw all the boxes of my email contacts checked and I promise I unchecked them. Then I went through them one by one and carefully…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell New advances in cosmetic dentistry are taking patients’ looks, preferences and comfort into consideration. Like other specialties in the field of medicine, dentistry continues to move forward with new innovations. Continual research has produced many state-of-the-art materials and procedures in cosmetic dentistry and our experts share a sampling of what is available…

How do you know when it’s time to take away the car keys? To bring in help? To move your parents out of their home? To obtain power of attorney? By Rozanne Gelbinovich As your parents age, you may find yourself coming to terms with some tough decisions about their care. Overwhelming doesn’t begin to…

By Deborah Myers It’s an inconceivable devastation—the greatest fear of every parent—until fate deals its unfathomable hand and makes it a reality: the loss of a child. Three lives—each possessing infinite potential—each ending all too early. And though these young men rest in peace, their loss results in emotional devastation here on earth. Channeling their…

By Michelle N. Hanlin With 100,000 people dying each year as a result—the possibility of adverse drug reactions need to be on your radar. Could your medication actually make you ill? According to Robert Gold, RPh, MBA, a shocking 100,000 people die every year because of adverse drug reactions. The author of Are Your Meds…

By Theresa Wright, PhD Baby Boomers are turning 50 at an estimated rate of one every 8 seconds. That’s more than 12,000 a day! For generations of women before us, it used to be that when you reached “the change of life,” your life stopped changing. The 50s were defined by retirement, rocking chairs and…

Sex, Lies and Identity Theft By Rosalind Warren I just got an email from a British website telling me they couldn’t ship me the porn I’d ordered because they were unable to verify my credit card information. My smut would be on its way, they assured me, the moment I got back to them with…

The diagnosis of ADHD didn’t exist when we were in school, but that doesn’t mean the disorder didn’t exist. By Jackie Pantaliano Do you… Procrastinate and have difficulty focusing on low interest tasks? Hyper-focus so much on high interest tasks you struggle to stop? Have poor time sense, frequently underestimating how long it will take…

Portion Control at its Most Delicious How cool is this? Muffin-sized meals! They’re healthy, easy and flavorful. Brette Sember wrote The Muffin Tin Cookbook with Melinda Boyd, a registered dietician focusing on weight management. Includes recipes like: Shrimp Risotto, Mango Tandoori Chicken and Tilapia Florentine. Published by Adams, an imprint of F+W Media. www.adamsmediastore.com/the-muffin-tin-cookbook, $17.95….

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play? I don’t remember growing older…when did they? Song Lyrics to “Sunrise, Sunset” We’ve all heard these lyrics from Fiddler on the Roof, but before you know it, it could be your little girl or boy marching down the…

Interest in Pinterest By Howard Yermish No, we really don’t need another social network. But Pinterest is different. Pinterest is about our collections of stuff that we collectively find on the Internet. Like a museum employing curators to decide which artworks to display, Pinterest is about the social curation of web content. In February 2012,…

Maid for You I DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE IN THE 50S AND 60S, AND I DIDN’T GO TO MANY WEDDINGS IN THE 90S, BUT I VIVIDLY REMEMBER THE BRIDESMAIDS’ DRESSES OF THE 70S AND 80S. AND THEY WERE–IN A WORD–UGLY. Screaming prints, off-beat colors, strangely configured sleeves and lots of chiffon; were those…