I didn't get to watch a lot of movies as a kid. (It's a long story.) The few ones I did watch left indelible impressions. As it turns out, when you watch the Sound of Music close to 30 or 40 times as a young teenaged woman, Christopher Plummer sticks in your mind. (As does the soundtrack. These are…
Oh, Betty. You are so deliciously direct, so positively perfect. A lady. Not a lady. The best kind of lady. You know? It's Betty White, she who used to charm us with St. Olaf stories on Golden Girls. You all petitioned for her to host Saturday Night Live - remember that? It could have been the most…
When I was little, maybe 10, maybe younger, I hated grocery shopping with my mother. All that time, filling a cart, when I could have been absorbed in a book! I'd daydream about how someday, I would design a fridge that somehow knew when we were out of orange juice, and that fridge would just…
We know that baby boomers are a big group of people. We know that in a 3-month period over this last year, baby boomers spent an average of $367 online every month, more than double the amount of those ages 18 to 22 spend online. We know that the dollars spent on caregiving every year can easily…
The Consumer Electronics Show, held every year in Vegas, promises the newest, best, and the flashiest gadgets. New sparkly TVs may not quite make your lunch, but they will let you order takeout online; for $129, a robot can read your Facebook feed to you. (What? I've always wanted my friends'…
The following is a guest blog from Steve Morgenstern, who frequently contributes technology content to AARP. You can read more from Steve here, and catch all his guest blogs here.
Are the holiday visitors pulling into the driveway as we speak? Then AARP food expert Pam Anderson has the entertaining strategy you need as you look forward to the next few days. Pam often entertains family so she's developed a brunch plan that your guests will love, whether on Christmas Day or…