I'm not suggesting that all mothers- and daughters-in-law have terrible relationships... But the relationship between a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is like no other that we experience, especially when grandchildren are involved.

Most retirees spend money doing things they couldn't afford or didn't have time for before they retired. My guilty pleasure is eating out. Here's why.

These are supposed to be their golden years. They worked hard, earned a decent living and raised their family. Now it's time to relax and reap the ben...

Huff/Post50 recently covered a survey by the AARP that found grandparents play a vital role in family life in the U.S. From assisting with the cost of...

"I’ve made money writing every year for 45 years," John Spooner told us in a recent interview. "If I don’t have a magazine deal or column or I’m...

A new study by the AARP finds 90 percent of grandparents feel they are an important part of their grandchildren's lives. Many provide support with edu...

A couple of years ago, feeling sentimental and having just finished the seventh decade of my life, I suddenly realized that, at age 70, days pass like minutes, the years go by like days.

Why is there no apprenticeship period in parenting? It is one of the only endeavors one undertakes without prior knowledge or practice, yet we often disdain the well-intended advice of those who earned their parenting stripes with distinction.

Gathering the fragments and memories of one's entire adult life to begin anew in an unfamiliar place is not on most middle-agers' to-do lists. But those lists were most likely compiled before we thought about grandchildren.

Several friends have been swooning over their grandchildren for a few years now and I have indulged their need to froth at the mouth whenever the subject comes up, which is often. I have fawned over thousands of pictures and have been selfless and flexible whenever social plans have been cancelled because their kids needed a babysitter or invited them over for dinner. I know better than to get in the way of a doting grandparent.

When my nephew called to tell me that he and his wife are expecting their first child in January, I immediately phoned his mother, my sister-in-law, t...

Well my friends, last week I began what most likely will be the most rewarding chapter of my baby boomer years: I became a grandfather to a beautiful,...

Reinventing one’s self is more than just a surface makeover manipulated by rock stars to seem forever young; to Gene Finger and Chris Ellison, it’...

It is now the end of "my week," a week that has gone by much too swiftly. It seems inconceivable that only a week ago I cried "Hello" and that today it is almost time to whisper "Goodbye," as the days, the hours, the minutes are forebodingly turning so very, very short.