ReFirement at Any Age: As another new year begins

By Gail Supplee Tatum, Columnist, The Times Are you making plans to welcome something new into your life this year? It might be an improvement or an adjustment to something you’ve already begun. The best way to start your new 2023 adventure is by painting a visual picture of what you want your year to look like and then pour it out on paper for you to read. Excitement surrounds each New Year,...

New job? Communication might be your key skill

Find out how to fit in, work well with others to make your career take off By Nancy Plummer, Columnist, The Times Here’s what getting a new job looks like these days: bosses are working in different time zones so communication is challenging, departments are being down-sized so the workload is twice what it was, and everyone is talking about being a team player. It’s no wonder people are so...

Take care of yourself, it’s surprisingly sexy

When you feel beautiful, you are By Nancy Plummer, Columnist, The Times We’ve all encountered more than our fair share of unsolicited romantic advice from friends, from family, and (most brazenly) from drunken friends of the family! But with contradicting and archaic advice mixed in with the helpful hints, it’s hard to figure out which tips we should discard and which we should hold onto and...

The problem with goal setting

It’s good to have goals, but you need a plan to reach them By Dr. Matthew Lapp, Columnist, The Times If you are like many people, the beginning of a new year brings a clean slate that allows for new goals, resolutions, and opportunities.  For others, the new year brings a reminder of the resolutions we made in years past that have yet to be resolved, goals that have been king forgotten,...