Sierra Pointe Retirement community in Scottsdale is a bit different from many independent senior communities. According to Peter Lesio, marketing director, the difference at the 14-year-old facility is this: “All our apartments are rentals; people don’t own their own living space. In the independent living industry, there are two different types of communities: all rentals…
Dear Helen: I’m in my 70s and reasonably well off. I don’t have family whom I feel a need to subsidize with my assets after my demise. I’m not a grinch, but the mishpoche are well enough. I’ve begun thinking about death more lately, after a brush with cancer. I am in remission and according…
As you learn more about a potential partner, it’s important to constantly evaluate your relationship so that you may determine if he/she is a good fit for you. Keep in mind that relationships take time to develop, and it’s only over this time that you can come to truly know a person. The following includes…
You gotta love Facebook. For all the junk it brings into your life, it sometimes offers a bridge to your past that can open up a wealth of wondrous memories and remind you that you really were 15 years old once upon a time. That happened to me the other day when I reconnected with…
My baby, Eli, turned 10 yesterday. It’s so easy to see the frantic flurry of time’s passage once you’re a parent. The milestones fly by like speeding airplanes zooming through the sky. You barely even notice them, and then suddenly a decade is lost. We have this giant sunflower on the wall outside my office….
Karyn Roseman Miller founded Cactus Day Camp nearly eight years ago in large part because of her own camp experiences beginning with day camp at age 3. After seven years in Fountain Hills, Cactus Day Camp has moved to Paradise Valley. The camp serves children entering kindergarten through entering seventh grade, with leadership programs for…
Like most Jewish holidays, Passover demands a certain degree of introspection. As Jews we are required not just to recall the slavery visited upon the ancient Israelites, we are commanded to imagine we have been personally delivered from slavery, and Dayenu, if that were not enough, we must also teach it to our children! In…
