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    Kristen Stenerson

    Kristen Stenerson

    Contributor

  • 'The Boss' Turns 63!

    The Boss is 63. After making his way around the New Jersey bar scene,Springsteen released his first album in 1972. The rise to stardom was slow, however, as it was Springsteen’s third album “Born To Run” released in 1975 that earned him widespread notice.

  • Why Seniors Are More Satisfied

    A friend of mine once posed that question during a summer road trip up the California coastline. Or to quote Oprah, "What we dwell on is who we become." For older people, who tend to focus on savoring precious moments, "that's why they're looking at the sunset," or into their grandchildren's eyes, Carstensen says.

  • 5 Ways To Let Go Of Regrets

    "When you repeatedly revisit a painful regret, you continue to experience and suffer the negative emotions generated by it," says Hamilton Beazley, Ph.D., author of "No Regrets: A Ten-Step Program for Living in the Present and Leaving the Past Behind" (Wiley, 2004). Energy is energy, Roese says.

  • The Hostage Exchange, The Car Show, And The End Of The Summer of Fail

    Anthony LoLavad, an author and teacher, has agreed to share his story with The Huffington Post using a pseudonym. This event, which happens frequently (thankfully!) has come to be called "the Hostage Exchange," as I’m in the East and she is in the Midwest. What was great was having him all summer, even though we came to call this “The Summer of Fail.” While we did do a lot of things together, some things just didn’t work out.

  • Why Positive Thinking Doesn't Work!

    I can now add another good thing to that list: Negative thinking. Thanks to some recent university studies, I now have proof that seeing the glass half-empty may the best thing for you. Low self-esteem can help too.

  • How To Move On When Giving Up Your Dream

    When Donna Harris-Earl, a 50-year-old aesthetician, opened her 7,000-square-foot grand salon and day spa in Beaverton, Ore., in 2007, she was living her entrepreneurial dream -- though it wasn’t long before that dream started to unravel. Her vision had included a salon/spa with stylists and aestheticians, nail technicians, massage therapists, a naturopath and beauty school. After getting divorced, she put herself through beauty school and then supported her four young sons by working in someone else’s salon.

  • 5 Myths About Supplements

    Much of what you assume about vitamins and minerals may be wrong. There’s a reason many supermarkets and drug stores devote an entire aisle to nutritional supplements. For those of us on a quest for better health, it's hard to resist the promise that it can be delivered in the form of neatly packaged pills.

  • 'Robot & Frank': Frank Langella Isn't Afraid To Act His Age

    Frank Langella isn’t afraid to act his age. The 74-year-old actor plays a gentleman of advancing years in "Robot & Frank," an endearing new comedy that opened in New York last weekend and will be playing to wider audiences across the country starting Friday. Langella’s character, also named Frank, is a retired cat burglar who spent time in jail and now lives alone in a small town not too far from New York.

  • How Home Values And Aging Affect Our Economy

    As the unusually weak economic recovery continues, you've at least got to wonder if future studies of what ails us will include our aging population as a material cause. Younger people tend to acquire financial assets as their personal wealth rises and they build their own nest eggs. The United States has enjoyed nearly 40 years where the number of people acquiring assets was greater than the number of people disposing of them.

  • 3 Interview Tips For Older Job Seekers

    "I'm worried that the boss will hire someone far younger than me," is a statement often heard from older job hunters. In truth, chances are that younger candidates are in hot pursuit of that dream opportunity, and the issue of age in hiring practices is a real one. Share a previous relevant experience, and how personally satisfying that work made you feel.

  • The Crucial Lesson Bea Arthur Taught Me About Retirement

    In an excerpt from his book "A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties," Ryan Amacher writes about his thoughts on the big don'ts of retirement and the lesson he learned from "Golden Girl" Bea Arthur. From what I have observed, retirement is deadly. The best statement I have ever heard about not retiring was made by Bea Arthur, of "Maude" fame and many other stage roles.

  • America's Oldest Professional Jockey Fights To Keep Racing

    They're not concerned about the younger jockeys who are riding and having accidents every day. Jockeys fall off leaving the starting gate, they don't bother them.

  • 5 Ways To Rev Up A Summer Job Search

    Summer is a fantastic time to jumpstart your job-search efforts because your application will have less competition, plus it offers numerous social events for networking and fine-tuning your elevator pitch.

  • Happy 50th Birthday, Steve Carell!

    Long before the funny man graced the big screen with legendary actors Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep in "Hope Springs" and even before he won our hearts as the bumbling but lovable boss Michael Scott on "The Office," the Massachusetts native was serving up big laughs with Chicago's iconic improv group The Second City. Carell's comedic talents are deeply rooted in improv. It was Jon Stewart who gave Carell his break in television when he joined the cast of "The Daily Show" as a correspondent in 1999.

  • LISTEN: Rock Out To This Woodstock '69 Playlist

    This year marks the 43rd anniversary of the legendary Woodstock music festival, held in Bethel, New York. Whether you were one of the many faces in the crowd dancing to music from Jimi Hendrix and The Who or you couldn't make it to the three-day festival, you're in luck! We've compiled a playlist of songs for you from the landmark festival celebrating peace and love in 1969.

  • WATCH: What High School Talent Did David Duchovny Bring To His New Movie?

    Finally! David Duchovny can let his long-lost talent shine in his latest film, "Goats." In the film Duchovny plays the role of Goat Man, a cannabis-growing goat herder mentoring a young man torn between his life in Tucson and the East Coast. As for interacting on set with the farm animals, Duchovny said that if they aren’t watched closely, goats will eat anything. Although they would probably eat his jacket lapel if given the chance, Duchovny told Kimmel he loved working with the goats.

  • 'Hope Springs' Actress Jean Smart On Meryl Streep And 25 Years Of Marriage

    Love and marriage are on the brain thanks to Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones' latest film "Hope Springs." Streep and Jones play a long-married couple looking to liven up their marriage by seeking help from a love guru played by Steve Carell. Actress Jean Smart was also involved in the film, playing a friend of Streep. The actress recently sat down with the ladies of "The Talk" to dish on Streep and her own quarter-century marriage.

  • Why I Gave Up Yoga

    My husband and I stumbled into a yoga class in the early 80s, way before it grew into the $6 billion industry it is today. Although a child of the ‘60s and ‘70s, I was also a child of a keep-your-nose-to-the-grindstone-don’t-make-waves-do-what’s-expected-of-you kind of Catholic upbringing that made me skitter away from any sort of reflection on my emotional state. It was through yoga in my 20s that I believe I found the courage to flex the muscles -- mental, emotional, philosophical -- necessary for self-reflection.

  • How I Saved My Parents Thousands Of Dollars

    Recently, my sister and I spent the better part of a month providing urgent care to our 89-year-old father, who had a kidney removed, and our 84-year-old mother, who faced complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. You might be able to save your parents some serious money, too, by taking a close look at their finances the way I did with mine. While my father was in rehab recuperating from the kidney surgery, I retrieved his mail, which included an annual renter’s insurance premium for the one-bedroom apartment he and my mother share in an independent-living complex.

  • WATCH: Company Helps Patients Save On Medical Expenses

    Medical bills can be overwhelming -- especially when you don't even know if they're accurate. In 2011, the American Medical Association reported that 20 percent of insurance claims were mis-processed. Noreen Connolly, a journalism teacher who was diagnosed with cancer in 2009, told CBS News that she was left with medical expenses of $15,000 and $20,000 -- with no way to pay them off.