Oct
26
Micro Loans Can Help Your Small Business Take Off
October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Great news if you’re entrepreneur or own a small business that you’d like to expand. We’ve posted before on Kiva.org, which gives loans as small as $25 to help small business owners in developing countries. Now it’s hoping its microlending strategies can offer a way out of the recession here, and has started offering similar [...]
Oct
21
Retirement Security for Women In Generating Income Rather than Wealth
October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment
In part because we live longer, and also because of the ways in which women’s retirement benefits are tied to how much we earn during our working lives, women face a greater longevity risk – danger of outliving our assets – in ways that men don’t. How women can get more guaranteed income in retirement [...]
Oct
10
Protect Your Assets by Letting Your Heirs Know How to Claim Them
October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
At this stage in life, who among us isn’t swamped with papers to keep track of? And not just ours but our parents’ as well. Insurance policies (life, long term care, auto, home), medical files (who see what doctor, their meds) financial documents (checking, savings, CDs, safe deposit boxes, investments), legal (wills, living trust). Staying [...]
Sep
18
Questioning Assumptions in the Debate Over Health Care Reform
September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
In the highly charged atmosphere of debate on health care reform, focused as it is on re-structuring and reigning in costs, there is little dialog that questions our assumptions of how we provide care. That perhaps some of the inefficiencies may be built in to how we currently provide care, and the types of care [...]
Aug
21
Developing Resilience in Times of Change
August 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
If you can at all manage it, don’t miss this free series with Joan Borsyenko, Ph.D., drawn from her new work, It’s Not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change. A cell biologist, clinical psychologist, early pioneer of psychoneuroimmunology (study of the mind body connection), former director of Harvard Medical School’s [...]
Jul
3
This short essay is a gem. I don’t know how to post on this powerful and personal chronicle of aging from the inside out by Marian Van Eyk McCain, author of Elderwoman,other than to urge you to read it. It’s a glimpse into how she borrows Joseph Campbell’s assertion that people aren’t so much seeking [...]
Jul
3
Last week, President Obama met at the White House with winners of the Purpose Prize, the award from Civic Ventures given to outstanding individuals over the age of 60 who are taking on challenges to make society better. The six winners who met with Mr. Obama are social innovators seeking solutions to problems ranging from [...]
Jun
24
If you know Carolyn Myss, you know that she’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Author of Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, and a book on the life of mystic Teresa of Avila, she’s uniquely capable of incisive thinking on profoundly mystical subjects. In Why People Don’t Heal and How [...]
Jun
23
Do you know why people say you should “be here now,” or what “living in the present” really means – or why it’s good for you? This study provides some clues. Previous studies have shown that pictures of threatening information, like an angry face, activates a region of the brain called the amygdala, which serves [...]
Jun
1
Opportunities in Work-for-Hire Economy
June 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
There’s a silver lining on the job front, and it’s the sharp increase in project contract work. In some cases work-for- hire jobs on freelance job sites have more than doubled. Elance.com has over 70,500 jobs, Sologig.com has doubled to 13,500 jobs per month and Odesk.com has grown 105%. Projects can last as little as [...]
