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No one's happier about America's weight problem than the $50-billion-a-year diet industry. That's why I've decided to write a diet book. I've done a little research and it should be pretty easy. After all, it doesn't have to work. 95% of all diets fail. We try. We fail. We end up with a few more pounds and a lot more frustration. Eventually, we decide to try another diet and buy another book....

ALICE HORNBAKER “Life After 50” column ON AIR wmkvfm.org and WMKVFM. 89.3 FM/Cincinnati 4-16-12 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...

There was a mouse in my stove, and this time I vowed "no mercy!" Yeah, right. Like we haven't...

I have a life-long history of learning everything the hard way. I've even mentioned it with a perverse sense of pride in conversation. Dozens of times. Mary Chapin Carpenter's song, "The Hard Way" from her album "Come on Come on" was my anthem for about a decade. But this morning brought a new appreciation for taking the time to read the instruction manual once in a while before embarking into...

Yes. I am, or was, a member of Mensa. In all actuality, I stopped paying dues when I had kids and found that I no longer had time to actively participate, but I'm still on the rolls and can reactivate at any time...and probably will sometime soon, now that my kids are grown. There are a lot of misconceptions about Mensa in general and mensans in particular. People are intimidated, but...

“Methinks you’re lucky to be alive.” “What do you mean? How so?” “You’re lucky that you never ran into a wall, fell down a flight of stairs or an open manhole. This prescription that the optometrist sent over for you was pretty strong. From the looks of things, he thinks, you’re blind … an accident waiting to happen,” the technician says. Then she hands me a set of...

Rhonda Williams recently hit the jackpot! A few weeks ago, the Fairburn, Georgia resident was cleaning out her purse and discovered a lottery ticket worth a hundred eighty nine thousand dollars! A month prior, Irving Przyborski came across a lotto ticket that he’d bought and misplaced a year ago. The Chicago cab driver’s find was worth nine million dollars! Heartwarming lost and found...

Money, Money, Money… Money makes the world go… ‘round??? Recently I heard...