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Contents
Living
Well
A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR YOUR GENERATION
5 Plus
0
May/June 2015
Read LivingWell50+ Digital:
MAY / JUNE 2015
VOL. 11 ISSUE 2
Aches
&
Pains
ENTERTAINMENT • HEALTH • BARGAINS • LIFESTYLE
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Aspirin Has Value as a Therapeutic Drug
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Pick It Up, People! Keep Lexington Beautiful
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Assessing a Neighborhood
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Easy Upgrades Help When Selling a Home
10
Time for a Financial Checkup
12
ASK DON!
Your Questions on Aging Answered
13
The Family That Skypes Together …
Cyber-Seniors find their place in cyberpsace
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TRAVEL
Wonderful Wilderness Wildlife Week: Pigeon Forge
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GARDENING
Perennials or Annuals? … Yes!
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CALENDAR
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SENIOR SERVICES DIRECTORY
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Fight Spring Allergies Without Raising Your Blood Pressure
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Kincare: Raising Children Not Your Own
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On Their Own: Helping a relative who is newly alone
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Are Not Inevitable
PT clinic director
says exercise
is best medicine
FROM THE
COVER
PAGE
FOOD DUDE
Some Thoughts for Spring: Lighter fare is now in season
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Security Systems Give You Peace of Mind
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PERSON OF INTEREST: Kyle Macy
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WRITERS
STAFF
Don Hoffman
Jean Jeffers
Frank Kourt
Jamie Lober
Jennifer Luttrell
Abby Malik
Dr. Tom Miller
Lisa M. Petsche
Jan Ross
Charles Sebastian
Doris Settles
Martha Evans Sparks
Tanya Tyler
editor/staff writer
John Brokamp
publisher
Janet Roy
director of creative services
Kim Blackburn
sales representative
Product Placement: SpaghettiOs
FROM THE
EDITOR
Dear Friends,
Did you ever read
something and it just hit
you right between the eyes
because it was so profound
and provocative and spot on?
I ran across a quote like that
from Anne Lamott the other day. She wrote:
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Living Well 50 of
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John Hoffeld
sales representative
Melinda Higgins
sales representative
Tanya Tyler • [email protected]
What if you wake up some day and you’re 65
or 75 and you never got your memoir or novel
written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools
and oceans all those years because your thighs
were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable
tummy; or you were just so strung out on
perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot
to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and
radical silliness and staring off into space like when
you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart.
Don’t let this happen.
I have nothing more to add except the usual
sign-off: Live life like you mean it!
Tanya