As the Older Americans Act (OAA) marks its 60th anniversary, five of the nation’s largest aging services organizations are calling on Congress to protect and increase Older Americans Act funding. These programs help millions of seniors age with dignity by providing meals, caregiver support, transportation, and more. What Is the Older Americans Act? First passed…
A new 2025 survey by eHealth and Retirable has revealed a troubling sentiment among future retirees: 80% of Americans fear Medicare won’t be there when they become eligible. Despite decades of reliability, rising healthcare costs and political uncertainty have cast doubt on the long-term future of Medicare. So, what’s really going on—and should current or…
Check out our story about why Americans love Costa Rica so much. It was that day in Tortuguero, Costa Rica when, from our small flat-bottomed boat we saw spider and white-throated capuchin monkeys, three species of toucans, iridescent iguanas, walk-on-water Jesus Christ lizards, Day-Glo butterflies with wingspans wide as your head, several large caimans, frogs…
Many of us grew up when neighborhood american drugstores sold little but drugs and sodas. In the 1940s, as we perched on green vinyl stools at a marble-topped soda fountain slurping our Green Rivers, who knew that from such humble beginnings would spring Walgreen’s and McDonald’s? My drugstore, at the corner of Cedar, Meacham and…
Look at any outdoor photograph of American men taken before 1960 and you’ll see every last man wearing a hat. Be it a fedora or homburg, slouch or porkpie, Panama or boater, hats used to be as essential as shoes, adding a fine flourish to proper manly appearance. Remember? The hat was so common that…
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