Alternative health expert Bryce Wylde advises that you may want to change how you prepare for cold and cough season… We spend more time indoors during fall and winter, which means everyone in the family is at greater risk for bringing home plenty of germs. The common cold is a leading cause of missed […]

  Sweaters — like everything else — have trended up as the temperatures have cooled down. This fall season, it’s all about the ruffles, bows and extravagant sleeves, but as women who are wise beyond our years, we know they’ll whiz in and out of style faster than you can say pashmina. However, basic styles […]

By Irene Caswell  When your son reaches a landmark 40th birthday, how does it affect your relationship as a parent? In my experience, when you also share a birthday, it has a tendency to mark the passing of time in larger print, and even more so, I found, this year. Time to Recalibrate The many stages […]

The best part of our trip to Paris and into Normandy has been the experience of listening to the Good grandchildren’s conversations and watching their eyes take in the grandeur of Montmartre and the city of Paris, Monet’s Garden, Mont-Saint-Michel, Honfleur, and Normandy. We are on the last leg of our trip on our way […]

I was asked to answer four questions and write an essay for Chicago Woman Magazine after being chosen as one of Chicago’s 50 Fierce outstanding women over 50. I turned to my dictionary, hoping to find a positive definition. I could not put myself into the fierceness category. The dictionary definition read, “Having or displaying an […]