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Haiku to Mom

Posted on 05/10/2013 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

Home & Family | Relationships | Your LifeFor Mother’s Day this year, haiku poetry seemed an appropriate medium to express feelings about our moms: short and sweet; direct, descriptive, creative; gets the point across without embellishment-kind of like our moms, right?!   Here is my haiku for Patricia, my Mom, who surprises and amazes and teaches me every day. Fragile and yet strong Her heart grows for her children Mom is love warrior  – @amygoyer I tweeted out my haiku and put out a call for haiku about mothers via my Twitter and …

Fire in the Wind, Heroes in the City

Posted on 05/8/2013 by | Latino Life | Comments

Relationships | Volunteering | Your LifeIt is raining this morning, May 6, over greater Los Angeles. It began tapping at our rooftop shortly after midnight and was still coming down as night blossomed into a gray and gloomy day. I felt like cheering. The rain, with its accompanying low temperatures and high humidity, meant that a fire that had burned through almost 30,000 acres of brush and timber in the mountains 40 miles west of the city had been beaten. We had come through another …

7 Tips for Safety When Loved Ones Travel Alone

Posted on 05/6/2013 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

Caregiving | Home & Family | Relationships | Your LifeMy heart is wrenching for the family of Victoria Kong, an 83-year-old woman who recently traveled by herself from Barbados in the Caribbean to Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C.  Somehow, she got off the plane and bypassed a wheelchair that her family said they had arranged for her.  Airport cameras caught her in the taxi line, but later captured images of her walking away from the airport along the river path. On Monday, her body was found in the Potomac river. …

A Grave Matter: What Happens to Your Social Media When You Die?

Posted on 05/6/2013 by | Caregiving | Comments

Caregiving | RelationshipsJust when you thought you had all the important documents you need to know your loved one’s wishes — power of attorney, will, health care directive, perhaps Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) — here’s another to consider: a social media will. This digital estate planning document states what you want to have happen to your social media — Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, email account — when you die. Just as you need an executor of your estate, you’d have to appoint a …

Jane Seymour’s Open Heart

Posted on 05/3/2013 by | Fashion | Comments

Beauty & Fashion | RelationshipsMany of you know Jane Seymour as the actress behind Michaela Quinn, the strong lead character in the hit ’90s television series, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. What you may not know is that Seymour has evolved to become a brand that includes a clothing line, home accessories, floral designs, books and starter painting kits.  I connected with the busy entrepreneur, who hasn’t completely given up acting, to talk about her latest endeavor, which (hint, hint )would make a great Mother’s …

Things Grandparents Never Thought They’d Do

Posted on 05/3/2013 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

Home & Family | RelationshipsDo you find yourself at an imaginary tea party? What about slaying a dragon with a cardboard sword? Rolling down a hill at high speed? Listening to Justin Bieber? Laughing repeatedly at knock-knock jokes? How about umpiring a wiffle-ball game? If you answered “Yes!” to any of these questions, and you are not under the age of 14 — you may be a grandparent. If you are a grandparent and have found yourself doing something you never thought you would, we …

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