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CNN Money’s Fortune has a great columnist, Anne Fisher.  In answering questions, she finds ways to pass along some great tidbits of helpful advice.  Today’s column was a winner.    A reader asked about the pros and cons of moving to find work in a different city.  Her response was good and even-handed, but what caught [...]

When you turn 50 that sets you up for a series of tests to see how unhealthy you are becoming.  So far I’ve had my annual physical…resting heart seems to be fine.  Waiting on the blood tests.  Mammogram fine.  Bone density…not so good.  Some calcium deterioration.  It’s called “osteopenia”.  Fun.  Still have the stress test, [...]

OK.  So healthcare reform is on the table.  For real.  At the risk of losing more subscribers, I’ll declare — I’m actually a single-payer supporter.  If you aren’t sure what that means, I support a federal health care program run by and supported by the government, providing equal access to healthcare for all.  This doesn’t [...]

On August 20th, I wrote a blog post (again) about healthcare reform.  In it, I focused on the cost of insurance for anyone not insured through their employer, or with a pre-existing condition.  One reader, Lisa Alkana, made a very good comment, on what to me, seems like a basic human right.  Her comment was [...]

By now, the news of  Republican Senator Jim DeMint’s comments to the GOP that defeating healthcare reform would “break” Obama is old news.  That conference call comment struck such a sad, sad chord in my heart.  The polarization of politics has absolutley trumped the welfare of the American people.  Isn’t this country supposed to be about [...]

Some days I feel like I’m a character in a 1945 black and white depression story, where there are food bank lineups, girls with holes in their socks and boys with holes in the toes of their shoes.  Characters meet on the streets and rather than greeting each other with the typical LA style, “Hey, [...]

I was so sad to hear the final toll on what the world had come to know as a mainstay of the American economy.  I realize it isn’t truly a final bell.  The company will restructure/reorg into a leaner, meaner, more competitive entity.  But in the meantime thousands and thousands of workers, who know no [...]

Well, I’m sure many of you aren’t shocked, but here I sit, having a coffee (de-caf) with my mother, discussing how she STILL hasn’t received any…ANY…test strips from her mail order prescription provider, Prescription Solutions.  Please refer to my post from last week, which in turn, refers you to my mother, Corinne’s blog post on [...]

This past week, there were three specific posts that caught my eye and I am compelled to share them with you. The first, comes from Ronni Bennett at Time Goes By. A reader’s comment about ageism spurred her on to write an article about ageism and prejudice that will ring true for all of us. [...]

I’ve been relatively quiet the past few weeks as I’ve been a bit overwhelmed with taking care of my daughter’s healing after suffering a really bad broken leg and ankle.  However, watching her start to become a bit more mobile got me thinking, in a bizarre way, about the LAUSD budget cut crisis affecting families [...]