Haven’t actually seen this product yet, but The Baby Boomer Retirement Game looks like amusing party fare for all those nights we’ll be spending at home.

The game (click here) is like Trivial Pursuit for aging hipsters. Okay, let me rephrase that. It’s probably a lot of fun, and surely not as depressing as those infomercials [...]

Here’s the scenario: Your 21-year-old brings home a group of college friends. They’re drinking beer in the den. You say hello, introduce yourself to the ones you’ve never met—and then stare a few minutes at one of the kids, who’s got the gangly, baby-faced look of someone who just started shaving. What do you do? [...]

If you’ve been reading this blog regularly, you probably noticed I haven’t posted in a while.

I didn’t think I’d be ready to come back to it today. But even though the past two weeks have been pretty miserable (and included a funeral), I hope my experiences can help those of you with difficult days ahead.

Here [...]

I’m sitting in a beautiful room in a place that looks like a country inn. The rooms are carpeted, there’s free TV and Internet and you can make as many phone calls as you want, all at no charge.

Go down the hall and there’s free coffee, a big platter of fresh fruit and a living [...]

A few days ago, I was driving back from visiting my parents, and thinking about the sadness that follows the death of a spouse, when I turned on the car radio to hear author Anne Roiphe talking about her new book, “Epilogue.” Uncanny timing!

Roiphe was widowed after her husband of nearly 40 years died of [...]

There’s nothing new about middle-aged men trying to camouflage their bald spots.

Before it became cool to be bald (as in totally head-shaved bald, not hair-on-the-sides bald), there were toupees and combovers. Then came Rogaine and Propecia and hair transplants.
But in New Zealand, there’s finally a way for bald men to capitalize on their rooftop hairlessness.

Check [...]

If you’re at that stage in your life where everything is suddenly changing, check out the new Women in Transition series starting this week at the North Castle Public Library in Armonk.

The series, which kicks off at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 10), aims to connect women who are caring for kids and aging parents, trying [...]

Did any of you read the New York Observer piece about people and their e-mail addresses?

If you missed it, click here to read it.

Anyway, there’s a mention of certain people (hmmm) whose outdated e-mail addresses are the online equivalent of Mom jeans!

In other words, if you’re like me and stlll have an AOL account, you’re [...]

With one sick parent and three kids back in school, and oh yes, a job — and a husband — I’ve been pulled in a million different directions lately. And the bad thing is, being stretched so thin seems to benefit nobody.

I go to visit my father but I can’t stay as long as [...]

If you have more than one kid, you’re probably like me: strictest with the first-born, a little looser with the second and somewhat laid back with the third. Relatively speaking of course. (The youngest continually tells me I am way too nervous and controlling, and that all his friends do whatever they want.)

Anyway, the point [...]