Good morning. Your assignment is to visit our BloggingBoomers Carnival for baby boomers over at Midlife Crisis Queen....

The Daily Wrinkle is a great site for anyone helping aging parents A commercial airline pilot pays tribute to his fallen comrade Check out an amazing brisket recipe at My Mom’s Blog Here’s a good place to find freelance writing gigs Behind the...

US Airways pilot Chelsey B. Sullenberger (Sully) has flown his first flight with the co-pilot from that fateful Miracle on the Hudson landing in January. According to USAir, the flight from New York’s  LaGuardia was uneventful except for the cheers...

Let’s talk about death today. Some people have already planned their funerals; I do not fall into that group. I am on the fence about what should happen when I go. Being brought up Jewish, cremation is forbidden. But I was just reading today about h...

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”...

I was planning to take a big bike ride this weekend, but then I heard it was going to rain both days. Damn. So now I’m thinking of what I can do instead. Here’s what I came up with: Take old clothes to Goodwill Buy a violin to replace the rent...

Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who made a miraculous emergency landing in the Hudson River in January, is set to fly again. US Airways says Sully will return to the cockpit soon as a management pilot and will also join the airline’s safety ma...

I’m feeling kind of nostalgic today, so that brings me to today’s topic: metal detectors. When I was a kid I was always searching for a Get Rick Quick scheme. So, naturally, I became obsessed with metal detectors and eventually bought one. I t...

I was heartened to hear that film director Roman Polanski was finally arrested for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old in the 1970s. Back in 1977, he was arrested in Los Angeles and pleaded guilty to “unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.” P...

Yours truly is hosting the BloggingBoomers Carnival this week. Between the Jewish New Year and a day of fasting, Janet at Gen Plus discovers how many more years she has to find a man. When Barbara Weibel at Hole In The Donut travels she seeks out places o...