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by Jennifer Golden, RPh. Vaccines After 55: Protecting Your Health and Independence As we grow older, staying healthy becomes more...

by Pat Rodgers The busy downtown streets of McKinney are abounding in wineries and vineyards dot the countryside. Visitors to the local...

by Joe Accetta Ask Michael Lucas what he’s doing in retirement, and he’ll laugh. After more than two decades in radio and another...

by Cynthia Houck In August 1992, an article in the Dallas Morning News showed a woman named Dee Dick, who founded The Shufflin’ Shoes...

by Rose-Mary Rumbley You remember shows and revival meetings held in a tent! Yes, this is before air-conditioning, when we sat and sweat...

by Katie Butler Johnson It was love at first sight. That Christmas Morning in 1989, I could see it in my six-year-old’s eyes as he caught...

by Coy's Kitchen Donny and Marie Osmond, the brother and sister duo, was my absolute favorite TV variety show from January 1976 to May...

by Dave Friant It’s an expression that characterizes some of our youthful heyday activities. When boomers were still young. Seemed...

by Brandon McGee Many people assume that when a homeowner dies, the mortgage is automatically discharged. However, that is not the case....

by Shanon Weaver Brian Duprey didn’t grow up in a show-business household. He was just a kid from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, an old mill...

by Jill Rumbley-Beam I usually don’t like to brag on myself, in fact the Bible in Jeremiah 4:30, tells us not to dress ourselves in...

by Michael Goldmill He can still picture it: He’s a kid in the hallway of the family’s home, listening to the harmonies floating out of...

by Kim Marvel Madrigal music is special. Performers wearing period costumes sing Renaissance-era music. Think of wandering minstrels....

by Kim Marvel Our 55-year relationship began when we were juniors in high school. In April, 1970, I approached my future wife and,...

By Lynn Pendergrass, LBSW, MA, LPC As a licensed professional counselor and social worker, I've had the privilege of meeting some truly...

by Shanon Weaver When Katie Butler Johnson started writing for Celebration Magazine, she was already a veteran of the page. From...

by Jill Rumbley-Beam There are people in this world who are productive even in their old age. You don’t have to sit down…percolate...

by Phyllis Jenkins Have you ever longed to know more about your grandparents or great-grandparents—not just the birthdays and hometowns,...

by Dave Friant I had the pleasure of meeting 81-year-old Jim Van Orden, and his bride Grace, earlier this summer at their Richardson...

by Coy's Kitchen “No soup for you!” is a famous catchphrase from the TV show Seinfeld. The phrase became a popular and cultural...