What Dads Really Need for Father’s Day
My dad is a man of simple needs, and the same goes for his Father’s Day desires. Last year my mom and I surprised him with a charcoal grill, and, in a pinch, he always appreciates a handmade coupon for...
View Article11 Things We Didn’t Know Last Week
News, discoveries and fun… 1. Cronuts – New York City’s new pastry craze – go for $40 on the black market. (Learn more at AARP) 2. One more reason to have sex: It’s good for your knees, elbows and...
View ArticleStickball Hall of Fame Celebrates ‘Poor Man’s Baseball’
Two weeks before the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2013 is inducted in Cooperstown, N.Y., six athletes celebrated their own Hall of Fame inductions with a game of stickball, baseball’s scrappy,...
View ArticleSnail-Slime Facials … Really?
Seekers of the fountain of youth can add one more bizarre treatment to the list: slime. Not just any slime. Snail slime. The Tokyo branch of the international spa Ci:z:Labo recently debuted an...
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News, discoveries and fun… 1. Snail slime might be the fountain of youth. (Learn more at AARP) 2. Not only have Twinkies gotten a second life, their shelf life has increased from 26 days to 45 days....
View Article11 Things We Didn’t Know Last Week
News, discoveries and fun… 1. Howdy Doody (and Van Gogh) could help save Detroit. (Learn more at AARP) 2. The YouTube sensation “Grandma Drummer” has revealed her identity. (Learn more at AARP) 3. A...
View Article11 Things We Didn’t Know Last Week
News, discoveries and fun … 1. Trying to shame people into losing weight only makes them get fatter. (Learn more at AARP) 2. Former President George H.W. Bush looks great Michael Jordan style. (Learn...
View Article11 Things We Didn’t Know Last Week
News, discoveries and fun … 1. A $332K test tube hamburger assembled from cow stem cells doesn’t taste all that good. (Learn more at AARP) 2. More than a third of young American adults – a record 21.6...
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News, discoveries and fun … 1. It takes a licking but keeps on ticking: Scientists can rebuild a mouse’s heart with human cells. (Learn more at Futurity.org) 2. Quick: Who’s that below? A simple test...
View ArticleMoving Beyond Loss in Words and Pictures
When Judith Fox’s husband died at 53, she found herself in an “alien world” of grief and shock. At only 50 years old, she didn’t know any other widows and had no idea how to process the loss. Fast...
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