My question of the day is this: Do women over 50 need life insurance? The topic was recently batted around on Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, the personal finance and investing program that airs…

Social Media Can Cost You a Job: 6 Solutions Mind your Ps and Qs. Your social media footprint can dropkick you out of the running for a job. That’s the…

Chances are you have no idea how much your health care will cost when you retire. I don’t. Trying to conjure up a reliable estimate gives me brain freeze. But…

By now, you’ve probably heard or seen the garbled answer Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, gave to this question during Sunday’s the Miss USA pageant: A recent report shows that in…

Two summers ago, I was sitting toes in the sand on a New Jersey beach talking to my friend, Larry Schmidt. He was in his late 50s and beginning to…

This past weekend, two close friends visited my husband and me at our Virginia countryside cottage. This married couple is roughly our age – 50s – and, like us, don’t…

The job market has been tough for older workers, but did you ever imagine that you wouldn’t land a job because of your credit report? It’s possible. As I wrote…

Here’s a dose of medicine women might not want to swallow: It’s getting more expensive for a wife to get health insurance through her husband’s plan. Employers, it seems, are…

Last weekend, I was a proud aunt, beaming and clapping on the quintessential college quad at the Wake Forest University graduation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I love it when the…