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As I got up to leave, she said: “I wish we had known each other when we were younger. I think we would have been the best of friends.“ Her name is Hazel Brooks and she is 80 years old. We sat next to each other on my recent flight from Grand Junction, Colorado to Dallas. I had been up since 2:00 am and had planned to sleep, but she and I ended up talking the whole 3 hours. She told me she...

When my husband and I married we lived in a duplex in a nice little town. We met some nice neighbors and settled in to a nice friendly relationship with a family on the next street. They had six children ranging from preteen to a toddler in diapers named Teresa. We watched her grow and soon we were expecting our own baby. She would come over and help me get ready for the new baby.Her life...

The last twenty-four hours of my life illustrate why I think women are so amazing. What happened to me happens to women everywhere, every day, and each morning we wake up and do it all over again. My life is no different from any of us; I'm just documenting it, as Eleanor Roosevelt did six days a week for twenty-seven years in her newspaper column, "My Day."...

4 Factors to Guide Unmotivated Students toward Finishing the Semester StrongBy Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life CoachHave you ever wondered why so many students get close to the ‘finish line’ of a semester or even graduation and then fail to finish? Parents, teachers, guidance counselors and tutors can be cheering for a student to push forward to finish strong and...

I sometimes wonder why I’m not asked to plan social functions at the company I work for. I realize I wasn’t hired as the social coordinator, but I do have some talent in that area and somebody has to do these things, right? I believe I’m probably not asked because my past has caught up with me and my current management has heard about the event I was in charge of planning at the Officer’s...

Are you depressed? Well, you might as well get over it on your own because the medications...

ALICE HORNBAKER “Life After 50” column ON AIR wmkvfm.org and WMKVFM. 89.3 FM/Cincinnati 6-4-12 Hello again. This is Alice Hornbaker for wmkv 89.3 FM and wmkvfm.org streaming around the world in the Internet Mondays and Thursdays at 2:20 p.m. and Fridays at 8:50 a.m. and as a blog on growingbolder.com under blogs/life after 50/ajhornbaker and on Twitter, Facebook and...