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    Lauren Rosenblum

    Lauren Rosenblum

    Contributor

  • Want to Retire Early? You Don't Need Riches

    "We had two hypotheses: They were privileged and ultra-affluent or wildly optimistic," says Catherine Collinson, president of the center. "They are far more likely to be like the 'Millionaire Next Door' than a Bill Gates or Warren Buffet," Collinson says, referring to the 1996 best-selling book that found many U.S. millionaires lead relatively modest lifestyles. The study authors extrapolated from the data on their savings behavior, and found they were actually "well on track to meet their goal," she says.

  • WATCH: Meet The Man Who Gets Paid To Tailgate

    In 1996, Joe Cahn sold his cooking school business and took a job that's "like heaven," he said in an interview with CNN Money. "It's the new American social," he told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "The last great American neighborhood where people get together and socialize.

  • 8 Ways To Bridge The Generation Gap At Work

    Entitled, lazy, self-absorbed -- equally harsh words used to describe some young employees. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. At the same time, though, a recent survey found that about 20 percent of midlevel corporate employees now report to a boss who is younger than they are, CNNMoney reports.

  • Comparing Sexual Harassment Then And Now

    This fall marks the 20th anniversary of Anita Hill's testimony against Justice Clarence Thomas, which brought the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace to the forefront of the national dialogue. Two decades later, alleged sexual misconduct is threatening another prominent man's political career and drawing fresh attention to the issue of sexual harassment. Of course, we're talking about GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, who is vehemently denying claims of sexual harassment while he was the president of the National Restaurant Association during the 1990s.

  • Singer Joan Baez Serenades Veterans At Occupy Wall Street

    Joan Baez at Occupy Wall Street from Gothamist on Vimeo. The echoes of the decade that fostered the genre of protest in the US returned to present day New York City's Foley Square, through a veteran activist and folk singer Joan Baez. According to CTpost.com, while Baez is still putting the finishing touches on her set list for her upcoming tour stops in the tri-state area, the artist, inspired by the protests, was looking to visit the downtown plaza.

  • Who's The Sexy One?

    Below are The Lake And Stars' latest campaign images, featuring a mother and her 19-year-old daughter embracing in revealing lingerie. Then again, that's exactly what Nikki Dekker and Maayan Zilberman, co-owners of the New York-based lingerie and swimwear label, are aiming for. "A lot of the themes that we're dealing with are about psychology between women as they're growing up and dealing with family politics or women in the workplace," Zilberman told The Huffington Post.

  • WATCH: A Post50 Online Dating Success Story

    While boomers are often targeted as technologically-challenged old-timers continually struggling to keep up with younger tech-savvy generations, individuals in their 50s and 60s are actually at the forefront of a trend based in cyberspace: the online dating scene. Individuals such as 50-year-old Adrienne Montezinos, a recently divorced single parent who gets pre-date jitters after arranging a Match.com meetup, and Emma Ernst, a 66-year-old widow who still "wants it all", are poster children for the latest boomer trend. In the video report above, ABC News' Claire Shipman profiles the demographic determined to find love again.

  • How Financial Values Have Changed For Post50s

    As middle-aged New Yorkers tell CNN, their financial values have changed since the economic downturn. Leisure travel and home improvements have taken a back seat during the recession. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.

  • Simple Tablecloth Becomes Family Heirloom After 30 Years Of Dinner Parties

    This was recently made very clear in Lynne Palazzi's piece from the November issue of Country Living magazine. Palazzi traces the evolution of her mother's ongoing project that has become an invaluable heirloom for her family. In 1979, when my mother was 53, she began a project that had real staying power.

  • Dreams About 'Golden Years' Turning Into Nightmares

    Like many middle-class American baby boomers, Linda Carmona-Sanchez is anxious about slipping into poverty and says whatever dreams she once had about retirement in her "golden years" have turned into nightmares. In a recent Gallup poll, 66 percent of Americans ranked not having enough money for retirement as their top financial concern. As the first members of the post World War Two baby boom generation turned 65 this year, the United States stood on the doorstep of what many experts see as a looming retirement crisis.

  • Why Can't I Sleep Anymore?

    "Insomnia affects about 30-40 percent [of] the general population and chronic insomnia is roughly 10 to 15 percent," Kushida said. Older adults may have medical conditions that contribute to sleep problems, and are more sensitive to light, noise and pain. "As we age, we get more aches and pains that can interfere with our sleep," said Dr. Ronald A. Popper, the founder and medical director of the Southern California Pulmonary & Sleep Disorders Medical Center.

  • A Little Floss, A Little Fluoride...And A Little Botox?

    You let your dental hygienist poke, prod, anesthetize and drill at all the sensitive places in your mouth. You let your gynecologist examine and meticulously measure every inch of your body. Many dentists are now advertising cosmetic Botox and dermal filler treatments in addition to their traditional job of tending to your pearly whites.

  • TV Host Leeza Gibbons On Caregiving, Unplugging And 'Dancing With The Stars'

    With more than 30 years in radio and television, renowned talk show host, fashion icon and caregiving advocate Leeza Gibbons has built herself into a household name. Gibbons is also the co-host of “America Now,” a syndicated newsmagazine series airing across the country. When Gibbons is not gracing the airwaves, she spends her time heading up Leeza's Place, an advocacy group that works on behalf of family caregivers who are caring for someone they love who is sick or dying.

  • Dr. Phil On Love, Life And Happiness After 50

    Dr. Phil McGraw needs little introduction. The Huff/Post50 team caught up with Dr. Phil, who is currently filming an all-new season of "Ask Oprah's All Stars", which answers viewers' questions about health, wealth and mental well-being.

  • 'In Time': A World Where Aging Is Controlled By Money

    If that sounds unappealing, then you wouldn't want to live in the world of Justin Timberlake's new movie, In Time, which opened in theaters Friday. The new sci-fi thriller portrays a futuristic society in which people stop aging at 25.

  • Healthy Emotional Eating Alternatives

    If you've ever wolfed down a pint of ice cream after an argument or munched through a bag of M&Ms on the eve of a major deadline, then you know the soothing power of food. "Candy, ice cream and other carbohydrates have a profound effect on brain chemistry," explains Elizabeth Somer, R.D., author of The Food & Mood Cookbook (Owl Books, 2004).

  • Are You Focused On Your Eye Health?

    A survey by the Ocular Nutrition Society found that almost as many baby boomers say they worry about losing their vision as having heart disease or cancer. "While there are a variety of potential factors, one possible reason baby boomers may neglect their eyes is because vision problems are typically painless and slow to develop," Jeffrey Anshel, OD, FAAO, and president of the Ocular Nutrition Society, told Huff/Post50. Anshel suggests proper nutrition and vitamin supplementation can safeguard eye health as people age, and must become a greater focus of primary vision care.

  • Model Cindy Joseph Proves Age Is No Barrier To Beauty

    With laugh lines and a full head of long silver hair, Cindy Joseph is defying all age barriers. Joseph was a makeup artist for 25 years before she started her second act as a supermodel. The mother of two is now promoting ageless, natural beauty with her own cosmetics brand, BOOM! By Cindy Joseph, and is about to launch a new addition to her line of skin and makeup products, called BOOMSILK.

  • Later-In-Life Fitness Lessons: Staying Fit To Stay On The Job

    This weekend, the last of the lifeguards still on duty at two of Long Island's largest public beaches -- Jones Beach and Robert Moses State Park -- will climb down from the stands and lock up their shacks for the winter. Although the New York State office of parks does not track statistics on the ages of its lifeguards, unofficial estimates are that about 10 percent of the lifeguards at Jones Beach and Robert Moses State parks are 50 and older.

  • Do You Like What You See When You Look In The Mirror?

    Ephron -- the screenwriter and producer whose credits include You've Got Mail, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Bewitched, among others -- shares the 13 ways she looks at her body in the mirror. "Val Monroe [O, The Oprah Magazine's beauty director] called and asked if was I interested in writing 13 ways of looking at my body based on a Wallace Stevens poem called "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,"" Ephron, 66, told Huff/Post50. Ephron's piece is a bit of comic relief among the mix of viewpoints in the magazine, including those of O readers, Dominique Browning and an anonymous CEO who has had 10 plastic surgeries.