Digital Estate Planning

It’s hard enough to write a Will, deciding who should get what when you die, but you need to provide for your virtual possessions also. Digital assets  have value—sometimes sentimental, sometimes commercial—just like a piece of jewelry. There can be legal issues for your relatives when you die unless you do your digital estate planning […]

Internet Dating for Baby Boomers

Internet dating has long been thought of as only for the young, but when 71-year-old  Martha Stewart publicly announced that she was joining Match.com in an effort to find male companionship, that dynamic changed. Older people realized that they too could used the Internet dating sites to find a companion or mate. Boomers are the […]

Getting Fired

Being fired is not just bad news, but it could be fatal—especially for middle-aged people. It could be the “kiss of death!”  A study found that the incidence of heart attacks and strokes among those who had lost their jobs was more than double that of those still working. “The true costs of unemployment exceed […]

Online Dating Strategies

Here are some strategies for online dating: Texting:  Take your sweet time texting back—a lot of time! Ladies should wait at least four hours to answer a man’s text—and even up to 24 hours. It shouldn’t seem like you look at your phone all the time—or give the impression that you do! Don’t send flirty […]

Smartphone Addiction

“We have become slaves to our smartphones, distracted by every little ping while we fail to live in the now. It’s changing our brains, ruining our lives and turning us into an iZombie.”  —Kyle Smith If you can’t get any work done because you can’t stop checking your Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr,  texts, emails—or you can’t […]

iPhone Dating App

Tinder is a dating app for the iPhone that has become very popular since its launch.  It is an unusual dating app because it  appeals to everyone—men and women, homosexuals and heterosexuals. It was introduced first on college campuses in California in September 2012 and expanded to other college campuses from there. It taps into […]

Why Marry?

It is common knowledge that marriage is risky mainly because the divorce rate, though down from its peak of one in two marriages in the early 1980’s, remains high. Besides, you can live a perfectly respectable life today without getting married. Having children outside of wedlock has also become common. Even so, it’s surprising how […]

Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater!

“A leopard doesn’t change it’s spots” as the expressions goes. People don’t change. Once a cheater, always a cheater! Don’t be fooled into thinking that the person you’ve fallen in love with won’t cheat on you—if he’s cheated before or is cheating to be with you! Statistics aren’t on your side. Old habits are hard […]