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Album release scheduled for the Summer of 2013. Nostalgic favorites with familiar melodies in the style of the Big Band Era.

Routinely, my physician asks, "How did you get here today?" When I tell him I drove to his office on my own, he asks with astonishment, "You still drive?"Perhaps, as he reviews my history before stepping into the examining room, he notes my age and assumes that I am no longer capable behind the wheel. He has no way of knowing that in my 81 years I have received only two moving violation tickets.I...

ALICE HORNBAKER SHOW ON AIR WMKV 89.3 FM WMKVFM.ORG INTERNET WMKV SHOW 5-20-13 Hello. This is Alice Hornbaker for WMKV 89.3 FM and wmkvfm.org streaming my column “Life after 50” around the world on the Internet Mondays and Thursdays at 2:20 p.m. and Fridays at 8:50 am. And it is also a blog on growingbolder.com, Facebook and Linkedin.com. In light of the hundreds of thousands...

Here’s another mixed bag of what I call musings-lite. None are worthy of a full musing. You even might think of this as coming from a junk drawer in my brain where I store strange things that go through my mind. ### Scientists have determined that our universe is made up of 5% normal matter (stuff we can see and measure), 24% dark matter (stuff that neither absorbs or emits...

I have never met a sea turtle that I didn’t like – I did, however, meet one once who didn’t particularly like me; in fact, I think she thought that I was trying to kill her babies, but I wasn’t. Here’s what happened: sea turtles are a protected species in Florida, and guided tours are given after dark so people like me can watch the egg-laying process. My family and I signed up for one...

How NOT to Get Wrinkles (and Skin Cancer) From The Sun and Still Have a Tan Wrinkles, Dry, Scaly Skin and Cancer from the Sun? Don’t take a chance! You can have the most beautiful, rich tan ever without the dangers of the sun….overnight. Here are the secrets to how to achieve it. We hate them...yet we often ALLOW them to happen. Yes, we’ll all get them to some degree but I don’t intend...

Can you believe I beat 71-year-old Martha Stewart at signing up on Match.com? I did it four years ago when I was 77, and she just did it now.In her profile Martha writes, "You may recognize me from my picture. Yes, it's really me." But no one would recognize me from the photograph I posted.Martha describes herself as athletic and toned. Out of honesty, I skipped those descriptors. Martha's...

When the earth tilts on its axis, like a sunflower does, towards the sun, it is summer. Summer occurs at oppositional times in the northern and southern hemisphere. The month of June (anywhere from June 20- June 24) marks the beginning of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere the solstice happens in January. Summer, like all of the other seasons of the...

I just returned from a trip to Baltimore visiting my daughter over Mother’s Day weekend. I was in a mothering mode much of the trip. Tracy treated me to brunch on Sunday at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Following mimosas and crabby quiche we wandered through rooms filled with Rothkos and Renoirs. While the artistic retrospective was wonderful, I was at least as struck by the personal...

I love family, I really do. I love them so much that sometimes I go visit them, whether I’m invited or not. I also love family secrets; they really keep family members stirred up – especially when everybody is telling everybody else what they’re not supposed to tell, and when family members are wondering what’s a secret and what’s not and when family members don’t care what’s a...