Advice on love, life and surviving Valentine’s Day
By Nancy Plummer, Columnist, The Times
Dear Nancy,
I’m a widow of five years and finally feel ready to date. My friends put me on a dating app and I realized quickly it’s not for me. Last weekend a few friends and I went skiing nearby and I met this really nice man. We talked in the ski lodge for over two hours and bought me a drink. He wasn’t wearing a ring and my friends felt he was really...
ReFirement at Any Age: Love, a big little word
By Gail Supplee Tatum, Columnist, The Times
No matter what your age or situation is in life, I think we can all agree that love is, indeed, an undeniably big little word.
The fourteenth of February has been designated as the day we set aside specifically to celebrate love.
We acknowledge love in many traditional ways. We send cards, give candy and go out to dinner, just to name a few.
All of those...
Focus on the good for this most unusual Christmas
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa
It’s easy to be hung up on all of the bad things we’re living through right now.
I’m not going to list them all, you know them all too well and don’t need me to remind you.
So, as we head into Christmas week, I want to focus on the things we can celebrate – and yes, there are things.
With all of the difficulties, we’ve learned to appreciate...
Don’t Retire, ReFire: The most important relationship in your life
By Gail Supplee Tatum, Columnist, The Times
February, the month that celebrates L-O-V-E.
Love comes in many forms. We each think of love differently, depending on our experiences and where we are in our lives.
There’s young love, seasoned love, love of a caregiver, love of animals, love of nature, love of life and I could go on.
Having said all of that, thee most exciting, challenging and significant...
Don’t Retire, ReFire: The faces of love
By Gail Supplee Tatum, Columnist, The Times
There are many types of love and many ways to express love. There’s the love between parent and child, husband and wife, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends, new friends. Although each relationship is expressed differently, how that expression of love makes us feel sends the same message.
Recognizing that love is all around is something we often lose sight...
All About Connecting: Love is in the air
By Nancy Plummer, Columnist, The Times
Ok…so, it’s been a baffling few months weather-wise, but let me assure you now that Spring is definitely here, and love is in the air! From tulips, azaleas, and pink dogwood trees painting our landscape with such romantic colors and aromas, and seemingly every animal in the Kingdom chasing females around to procreate, it’s no surprise we mere mortals are...
A chance to find a special person love on Valentine’s Day
By Nancy Plummer, Columnist, The Times
My dear Readers,
This is certainly the season of LOVE and as a Dating, Love and Life Strategist, I have never had a client that has inspired me more to help find the love and life one truly deserves. We all deserve love, and I feel so humbled and appreciative that I have been able to help hundreds of men and women find the love and life they’ve always dreamed...
Last-minute Valentine’s Day desserts
By Cathy Branciaroli, Food Correspondent, The Times
A little chocolate can go a long way to saying “I love you” to your sweetie on Valentine’s Day.
Valentine’s day is upon us but don’t stress out. Making the day special can be as easy or as elaborate as you’d like to make it. Simple seems best as the clock is ticking down. And last minute dishes can be just as delightful as...
The gifts that cancer gave me
By Nancy Plummer, Columnist, The Times
My Dear Readers,
Well, I’ve been looking forward to writing to you all with good news…and of course, I was always having to prepare myself that that day may never come…
However, miracles do happen every day, and I am one of them.
I am in remission from my Ovarian Cancer!
A small gift to those we love
By Nancy Plummer, Columnist, The Times
Dear Readers,
I’ve promised to keep you updated on my Ovarian Cancer journey…and I’m doing great considering this is indeed a marathon. Sadly, though, my father has cancer too, and he is not fairing as well. In fact, he must have an operation on December 9th.
For someone who has had to grapple with the idea of death just around the corner, I felt so inspired...
