Posts by: Sandy
Coffee, Tea and Seniors
Remember that old song? Let’s have another cup of coffee, let’s have another cup of tea. For years there has been controversy about the healthful attributes of caffeine.
Now, some researchers in Sweden and Finland have said that moderate coffee and tea drinking in mid-life and beyond is associated with a lower risk [...]
Where Have All The Seniors Gone?
The fact is that we seniors are over 80 million strong, and we have money to spend.
Yes, when we retire, contrary to popular thinking, we spend more money, not less.That’s because we have more time to spend the money.
So, where are we in the popular media? We are not represented [...]
Royal Fashions?
By Sandy On May 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Sandy's Corner, Senior Chic Fashions, Senior Chic Lifestyle, Senior Chic Women
Royal Fashions?
For many years, I was in the wedding business. I designed wedding gowns, mother of the brides and bridesmaids dresses. So I have a real fondness and interest in weddings.
The wedding of Kate and William was really something to see. Kate and her family looked lovely and understated in their outfits. [...]
Four-time gold medalist subdued and helped capture a teenage intruder at her home in Australia. It’s a pretty impressive story before you consider that the would-be victim won the first of those gold medals in 1956.
Dawn Fraser, who won eight Olympic medals for Australia from 1956 through 1964, was at home in Australia when a [...]
A few months ago, I developed numbness in my toes. Prior to that I had fallen down the steps on New Years day and broken my wrist.
I am an avid exerciser and love to do Aerobics but was fearful of falling, so I started to do the elliptical machine.
I am also an avid researcher [...]
Stop Sweating The Small Stuff
By Sandy On July 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Sandy's Corner, Senior Chic Health, Senior Chic Lifestyle
IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER – by Erma Bombeck
(written after she found out she was dying from cancer).
I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren’t there for the day.
I would have burned the pink candle [...]
Look Younger Quickly
It’s not always necessary to resort to the “extreme makeover” when you reach 50. There are simple steps to retaining your looks without spending a lot of money.
Research has proven that aging is only 35% genetic. That leaves you in charge of the other 65%. It’s time to begin taking charge [...]
Age”The fact was I didn’t want to look my age, but I didn’t want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.”
-Erma Bombeck, 1979Erma Bombeck always had such a humorous way of looking at things. This kept her young at heart. [...]
She’s the world’s oldest pooch, with 21 years under her collar, but she never learned how to beg.
“She’s independent. If she didn’t want to do something, she had a look she would give, and she usually got her way,” Long Islander Denice Shaughnessy joked of her aging dachshund, Chanel, whose 147th birthday — in [...]
“I can’t believe I’m sixty.” My friend Marlena sits across from me over lunch, my treat, a few days after her somewhat raucous sixtieth birthday party, held in a local art gallery and featuring a DJ and enthusiastic dancing along with the usual delicious food and cake. “I’m not ready to be sixty,” she says [...]
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