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By Nancy A. Shenker* If you don’t incorporate technology into your daily life, you’re missing out. Even if we didn’t grow up with it, we can learn about it and apply it.  Do not fear technology...embrace it. More than 50 percent of today's jobs require some degree of technology skills, and experts say that percentage will increase to 77 percent in the next decade according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The National Council on Aging reports that by 2019, more than 40 percent of people over age 55 are expected to be working. On this basis, it’s important that our contemporaries get up to speed so they...

One of us is still lucky to have a Mom alive—98 ½--those half years are very important at this stage. The other one lost her mom 2 ½ years ago at age 92. And we both are Moms. One of us also got very lucky and is now a grandmother of two cuties and has a daughter who’s the lucky Mom.  Barbara's two daughters and her mother, Estelle, who will be 99 in October.  So, we know lots about this subject. And we’d like to advise skipping the gifts if you have a Mom and telling your kids to do...

We know that we are directionally challenged, especially when driving (read last week’s blog post). But the truth is we’re no picnic to have in the passenger seat, either. Think of Driving Miss Daisy, the wonderful movie with Jessica Tandy instructing her driver played by Morgan Freeman about bumps in the road, literally and metaphorically. This is not unlike our behavior when we become that annoying backseat driver even if we’re seated in front. We own up to  these “car altercations” fully and are trying to change. Barbara remembers all too well when she and her former husband rented a...

We’re almost always lost. And please don’t tell us it’s so easy to get from here to there, and then proceed to instruct us with a long list of verbal directions: “Turn right, turn left, go five miles, go up the hill, turn right again, then left, and where you want to go will be on your left past the gas station.”  STOP. Our brains stopped processing your list of helpful twists and turns after it heard the first few. We need to write this down or plug it into notes on our phone. And then don’t ask perfunctorily: “Don’t...

By Linda Orton, Founder of SingleDot.com* Those of us over age 50 all talk with each other about how the world has changed because of technology, the Internet, and if you are single (as I am), dating apps. The changes drive some of the most important aspects of our human interactions with our work colleagues, families, and friends and how we meet new people, whether those individuals are friends or romantic interests. Dating and long-term compatibility are determined by a wide host of elements, but at the root is unquestionably physical attraction. That’s why apps like Tinder and JSwipe have...