Two people make cotton candy, for throwbacks and memories. Image by Paul Hakimata
What’s Booming – RVA Events

What’s Booming RVA: Throwbacks and Memories

Boomer’s top picks for the week ahead

By Annie Tobey | August 21, 2025
Fired worker needs to know what to do if you lose your job. Image by Brian T Young
Finance

What to Do If You Lose Your Job

How to move ahead for immediate and future success

By Jill Schlesinger | August 20, 2025
Mature mother and daughter in a disagreement at their shared home. Image by Katie Nesling
Advice for Life

Shared Home Becomes a Battleground

Daughter wants to move on, mom wants to stay

By R. Eric Thomas | August 15, 2025
A woman's tennis bracelet, like this one on a woman's arm with white roses in the background, went to an undeserving beneficiary in the will. Image by Nattaputch Techarsititwong
Advice for Life

Undeserving Beneficiary in His Wife’s Will

Can the husband withhold the valuable diamond tennis bracelet

By R. Eric Thomas | August 8, 2025
An uninscribed gravestone, ready for married couples names. A happy husband wants to be buried with his second wife, but he suspects the stepkids will object. Should they be able to dictate the parents’ burial plans?
Advice for Life

Can Stepkids Dictate Parents’ Burial Plans?

Happy husband fears they will reject his wishes

By R. Eric Thomas | August 8, 2025
A granddaughter whispering into her grandmother's ear, both happy. By Photographerlondon. Used with article on turf wars over grandmothers' names
Advice for Life

Turf Wars Over Grandmothers’ Names

The ‘real’ grandmother says she’s the only Nonna

By R. Eric Thomas | August 1, 2025
A young woman in bed with her disinterested partner behind her. By Dmitry Marchenko. The mother is concerned about her daughter's abusive boyfriend.
Advice for Life

Daughter’s Abusive Boyfriend

Should the other intervene?

By R. Eric Thomas | July 25, 2025
Woman looking at a tablet, perhaps doing a puzzle, like the Boggle or Jumble with mountain air and horses
David L Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

Jumble Puzzles with Mountain Air and Horses

Two scrambled word challenges – Jumble for Kids and the Classic

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek | July 21, 2025
A sad, contemplative woman in her living room, after she's being forced to forgive by her family. Image by Lacheev
Advice for Life

Forced to Forgive and Forget

‘I don’t want their toxicity touching my life’

By R. Eric Thomas | July 18, 2025
How to choose a financial advisor: a professional shakes hands with a senior woman and her husband joins the conversation. By Monkey business images
Finance

How to Choose a Financial Advisor

Questions for you and for the potential professional

By Jill Schlesinger | July 14, 2025

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