Just My Opinion

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer I awoke around midnight and, unable to sleep, I watched out the window as flickering lights floated above the grassy...

While many older Americans delayed retirement or re-entered the workforce during the recent economic downturn, besides the obvious financial incentives, an unexpected benefit might be the delay of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.

We are learning that the pool of family and friends available to take care of us in old age will be less than half as deep as it is today.

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer You don’t often have a chance to wish a family member a happy 100th birthday. The occasion is cause for...

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer When my husband was a child, his mother told him that it was bad luck to put shoes on the...

A result of this technology-based era, and the new and/or improved products and services that come with it, is an over complication of bills for everyday expenses such as cable, phone, Internet, fuel, electric and other household utilities.

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer Pia the young osprey perched at the edge of a massive nest constructed atop a pole on an island in...

I was taken aback by my less than enthusiastic reaction upon learning that former Vice President Dick Cheney had had a heart transplant.

Who would have thought two abandoned kitties we recently adopted would come to symbolize a new lease on life for all of us?

Whom do I trust? If you really want to know, I trust my friends, otherwise they wouldn’t be my friends. I trust most family members; the ones I don’t I keep at arm’s length. Finally, if you want to know if I trust my government, the answer is more complicated.