Baby You Can Drive My Car

Are the Americans back?

As an automobile reviewer I get to drive a wide variety of cars and get the feel for each. One of the side benefits, however, is to see and hear the reactions of other people, friends and the general public alike, for the cars and the whole notion of the automobile business. People are very specific and passionate about their car preferences, so I get to experience a wide range of reaction. Read More

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The inside view

Buyer beware: Those ads for top-brand audio/video equipment offered at hefty discounts might sound like wonderful deals, but make sure the advertisers are actually authorized by the manufacturers to sell and service the gear. This month, WatchBoom's audio-video expert Steve Zaboji tells us about the dangers of buying equipment from “brand equity thieves.” Read More

THE BOOMER BUCK—FINANCE in the new economy, work, investment strategies and what’s left over

Many Benefits to Utilizing a Family Mission Statement

A family doesn’t need a surname like Rockefeller or Vanderbilt to benefit from a family mission statement. According to the Financial Planning Association of Washington, D.C. a mission statement is a collaborative document created by one or more generations of family so that standards and goals can be set for the handling of all family assets. Read More

Boomer Bride Alert! Is Long-Term Care Insurance in Your Prenup?

Prenuptial agreements are popular with brides of a certain age (boomers-plus), who often have accumulated assets, careers, and lifestyles they want to protect. Now there’s a new prenup wrinkle, a clause specifying that hubby-to-be get a long-term care insurance policy before walking down the aisle. Read More

The Problem With Debt, or You don’t deserve what you want

I was at a party with the chair of a university economics department where we discussed the recipe for financial success and disaster. He explained America could continue to borrow to fund its social programs because we have an increasing gross national product and therefore increasing tax revenue to cover our debt payments. Read More

Where Do Your Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Come From?

Many people think that all nutritional supplements are “created equal”. Well, that is simply not the case. Many, in fact, most of the supplements in the US are concocted in a laboratory. They are chemicals and synthetics. For example, if the word acid is used in the name of the product, it is synthetic. Like ascorbic acid or folic acid. These are chemicalized synthetic forms of Vitamin C Ascorbate or Folate (part of the B Complex series). So…what’s the difference? Read More

SHELF LIFE—HEALTH and medical advances, lifestyle and holding on

Do You Need a Cardio Workout?

Getting plenty of cardio in your workouts is important to keeping your body healthy for both men and women. Men often spend most of their workout pumping weights building up the strength of their muscles. However, what about the most important muscle in the body – the heart muscle? Cardio helps keep our heart strong by pumping blood through our body more efficiently. This also helps us our bodies get more oxygen and nutrients that leads to better health. Cardio also helps us lose weight by burning additional calories and burning fat efficiently. Read More

The Three Major Periods of Life

Traditional health and medical systems view the elderly’s physical abilities, general health, and role in society quite differently. To understand this viewpoint, it helps to consider the three major periods of development and maturation that occur throughout the life of a human being: Read More

GETTING WARMER
Travel destinations with the Boomer in mind

Sea-chic

On this sailing excursion along the coast of Maine, an inlander gains new insights into stylish hospitality on The Heritage, layering and unscripted fun. No Dramamine necessary Read More

Riviera Maya Part 1: Tulum is still Tulum

The Caribbean coast of eastern Mexico – now known as Cancun and the Riviera Maya – was once dotted by Mayan ports with names like Xel-Ha, Xcaret, Xaman Ha and Tulum. Today's visitors to these spots will find themselves in huge amusement parks, ritzy residential enclaves and sprawing cities – with the exception of the remaining archaeological site of Tulum. Read More

Riviera Maya Part 2: Romance on the Riviera

Weddings and honeymoons mean big, big business on the sugary beaches of the Mexican Caribbean. Staff coordinators at many of the hotels there are happy to handle all the details of your nuptials, from putting the ceremony together to getting the paperwork done – letting you say your “I do's” in as little as 24 hours. Read More

Kuna castaway

Hundreds of uninhabited islands, immaculate beaches, warm Caribbean waters and not a soul in sight. If this sounds inviting, join travel journalist Ted Alan Stedman as he explores the remote, uncrowded islands of Panama's San Blas Archipelago. But more than fulfilling a castaway fantasy, Stedman also has engaging visits with the local Kuna tribal people. Read More

Wales puts out a 7,493-yard-long welcome mat

Veteran travel editor Robert N. Jenkins makes his debut in WatchBoom.com this month with a first-hand report on the golf course in Wales purpose-built for this October’s Ryder Cup. Created from farm and marsh land at a cost of more than $20 million, the Twenty Ten Course will challenge the top dozen European golfers and their U.S. counterparts with narrow fairways, plenty of water hazards and greens that are demanding. Read More

Baby Beluga whales are the summer stars of Churchill, Manitoba

Churchill, a small outpost in the Canadian Arctic, is known as “The Polar Bear Capital of the World.” But WatchBoom special correspondent Lorry Heverly went there for an encounter with another kind of animal: the pods of curious Beluga whales and their babies, who migrate to Churchill in summer. Read More