Find Local Home Care For Seniors

Senior Care At Home

Many families really want to take care of older parents or grandparents at home. The problem is that the older person’s health issues may make it impossible to leave them alone. If all the adults in the family need to work, or if they just need a break, they made [...]

Biggest US Tax Break Kinder to Higher Income People

US Mortgage Deductions Are Friendlier to Wealthy People

With all of this talk of tea parties and high income taxes, I think it is time for a reality check. No, it is not time for a reality check, but it is well past time for a reality check! Some of the US tax breaks [...]

This Place I Remember…

There are places I remember All my life, though some have changed (“In My Life,” Rubber Soul 1965)—Foley’s Tavern…

If you uphold the notion you can tell a lot about a place by what it does with its eggs, follow me to Foley’s Tavern–not the Foley’s of today, but the one of yesteryear– that [...]

Health Care Reform – A Short History: FDR to Obama

Health Reform in The USA

Since the health care reform debate seems to keep dragging on, I figured it might be interesting to some of us if I outlined a short summary of the history of this issue. Some of you probably think this all just start popping up this year, or last year. [...]

Filibuster Record by Republicans – Does Government Work At All?

Republicans Setting Filibuster Record In the US Senate

President Obama had an ambitious agenda when he took office. A majority of Americans voted for that agenda. However, there are rules in place that give the minority some power, and one of those is the ultimate tool of obstruction – the filibuster. Right now, Republicans [...]

Own or Rent – The Ads and Disads of Home Ownership Today

Should You Buy or Rent a Home?

Even though the image of owning our own home, complete with a white fence, seems to always stay with us, nobody can disregard the news of how home ownership has meant financial disaster for many American families in the past several months.  Most of us, over [...]

Obama Proposes Tax Help and Funds for the Sandwich Generation

Will Obama Tax Cuts Help the Sandwich Generation?

What is the Sandwich Generation? If you have not heard this term before, you can go right to the source and look at SandwichGeneration.com. It refers to late baby boomers (myself) and early Gen Xers. (Yeah, we know – sometimes that is called Generation Jones) who [...]

Who Will Control Time Now?

Good-bye Captain 11

One man in each century is given the power to control time. The man chosen to receive this power is carefully selected. He must be kind. He must be fair. He must be brave. You have fulfilled these requirements; and, we of the Outer Galaxies designate to you the wisdom of [...]

Clinton Bush Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund

Why Care About the Clinton Bush Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund

You can just skip this and go right to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.  As a website owner, my mission is usually to keep people on my own website as long as possible. So please remember us and come back later!

But today, I [...]

What is a Baby Boomer?

What is a Baby Boomer Anyway?

We tend to use the term, baby boomer, to refer to middle aged people these days. But what, exactly, is a baby boomer? You may be very surprised to know that this issue generates some debate.

Baby Boom: After WWII, the returning soldiers tended to start their post-war [...]