02.25.2018 Community Column: Life lessons from a first-time grandmother A new chapter of my life was written last September when I became a grandmother, aka Glam Mom (a moniker my sister bestowed on me). My world has tilted,...
11.17.2017 Community Forward Living: Ms. Auto Correct has a mind of her own I was in real hot water with a dear friend, and it wasn’t my mouth this time — well, not exactly. She sent me a photo of herself vacationing...
09.28.2017 Community Forward Living: Great expectations for ‘Glam-Mom’ I may be the only person who’s glad summer is over. It’s not that I don’t like summer; I do — tourists and all. Then again, I love the...
08.21.2017 Community Forward Living: Making the best of bitter pills Most of us are familiar with this popular lyric from the hit musical “Mary Poppins”: “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” Mary Poppins and Mom had...
07.27.2017 Community Forward Living: Viewing the world with new eyes I’ve dubbed this past June “the month of bombshells.” The shells started flying in May, when a routine visit with my ophthalmologist morphed into what seems like a lifelong...
04.27.2017 Community Forward Living: What to do if your ship passes you by In January, my son Jeff and I were chatting about this and that — just an ordinary phone conversation, or so I thought. He was recounting his trip to...
03.23.2017 Community Forward Living: Have a ‘Cheers’ you can call your own? I loved the long-running TV show “Cheers.” The series revolved around a “watering hole” in Boston called Cheers, where a “cast of characters” (literally) shows up regularly. Owner Sam...
03.19.2017 Community Iannelli Column: New rules for dating after 50 A widowed friend was picking my brain about how to meet eligible men. The idea of dating after many years of marriage terrified her. She knew I “came out”...
02.23.2017 Community Forward Living: Love, loss and the time for goodbyes They say that death comes in threes. I’ve never given much credence to this superstition; however, I may revisit my thinking. I said goodbye to three good friends over...
01.29.2017 Columns Forward Living: When did rudeness become mainstream? Folks are becoming increasingly rude, don’t you think? From my vantage point, it seems that rudeness is a pandemic that’s sweeping the nation — and it ain’t pretty.
