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I apologize if this isn't the proper category for my post, but it looks like it could be. After being "prematurely retired" from my career as a journeyman electrician, I was contemplating my future one late night/early morning with a friend on my deck whilst sharing scotch and a cigar when he said, being an attorney, "why not law school?" On reflection, and with no disrespect to Wal-Mart but...

Nobody said I'd be speaking!Just yesterday I was standing on a dais at Chicago's Union League Club, picking up the "Silver Feather Award" from the Illinois Woman's Press Association for kicking butt in the group's annual communications contest. I'd won this award once before, in 2008, which is when I first joined the organization. I expected the routine would be the same--a handshake and a hug,...

ALICE HORNBAKER “Life After 50” column ON AIR wmkvfm.org and WMKVFM. 89.3 FM/Cincinnati 4-2-12 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...

As the rain and cold envelops my house this evening, I think it would have been lovely to...

I used to have plantar fasciitis. Every once in a while a touch of it comes back, but pretty...