Editor’s Picks

Water cooler “talk” on social media? These guys just get in the way. Every day, thousands of pieces are written, published, and put online. And every day, readers conjugate and coagulate online and on social media at the bottom of these articles and sometimes actually talk about what they’ve just ...

Parents spend it on travel, home renovations – and having fun. It makes perfect sense – or does it? A full house must make it harder to save for retirement, since kids are expensive, right? Even when they’re over 18, they might be in college or still living at home ...

Women score lower in investment knowledge and confidence. When it comes to preparing financially for retirement, women continue to lag behind men and need to step on the accelerator. In its annual report, California-based Financial Finesse, a financial education firm, found that there’s a 26 percent gap in the savings ...

Thousands of older Americans reach out to the banks and request a reverse mortgage each year. Many times it’s to help secure their retirement and quality of life. But can you also use a reverse mortgage for home remodel? How A Reverse Mortgage Works A reverse mortgage is similar to ...

What do you know about your FICO and your credit score? It’s really what you don’t know that could hurt you in the long run. A lot of people are unaware of even what their credit score is. Naturally, it’s not surprising that many people have no clue as to ...

Anti-aging is a physical impossibility, so let’s focus on the glam instead. When my like-clockwork morning and evening skincare routine includes a luxurious application of an anti-aging skincare product, I often think of my mother when I was very young. She would be getting dressed up on her way out ...

Hogging the road has never been so much fun (or snake-like) when you are cruising at neck-breaking speeds in the new SRT Dodge Viper. It’s so fast that you may even time travel like Back To The Future, burning strips of road left behind in your wake. The SRT Viper ...

Reminds me of the Catholic cultural identity and family of the 1960s For those of us Catholic Baby Boomers who grew up during the 1960s, the church was about more than religion. It was like an extended family and cultural identity. That meant Catholic School with its nuns and ear ...

How marrying later in life turned me into the go-to relationship expert – even though in the beginning they thought my wife and I were nuts. My wife and I didn’t meet in our 20s or get set up by our friends or parents, and we never endured cutesy made-up ...

Study says risk of death can be lowered by 25 percent. Call it a game-changer. Or maybe a wakeup call. Those already taking blood pressure medicine, and Baby Boomers who have been lax about checking their blood pressure, need to listen up. New findings from the National Institutes of Health ...