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According to the newest research at the Longevity Center at Stanford, you will live a lot longer than you may think that you will. The Baby Boomer generation is redefining the limits of aging and have been called, The Zoomers! According to an article in The Economist, you may also become happier as you age. When many young people think about aging, they fear and dread it. New scientific research surprisingly suggests that the reality of aging is the total opposite: increasing happiness. The most unhappy people identified by the study were in their late 40s. After age 50, with careful planning and design, many people enter into renewed serenity and joy.

At this moment I am in the process of redefining the way I live.  This is the time to make changes.  For a start I am leaving Dallas, placing distance between myself and my much loved friends and family and moving to Europe to start a new page in my life.

I have disposed of my house and my furniture although I am still left with a container full of "things dear to me".

It was just another typical spring evening in Texas this week-humid warm air moving into the upper atmosphere. The Civil Defense sirens near our Town Hall begin their ominous wail. I reluctantly take the mirror off the wall of the interior downstairs bathroom. My wife gathers blankets and pillows and any other softening-the blow items she can find. We take our places and huddle together in the bathtub listening to the beating of ping-pong size hail pounding windows, doors, roof, and sides of our home.

When I heard that Preservation Texas inaugurated its first ever Texas Modern Month, being celebrated the entire month of April 2011, I wanted to share my experience in the Mid-Century Modern home in which I lived from the age of six until I left home for college. I grew up in Dallas in a Mid-Century Modern home built by my parents and designed by the late Dallas architect, Joe Gordon, in 1952.

If you're super organized and there's a place in your home for everything and everything is in its place, then this article is not for you. If however, you struggle with keeping your home organized, as I do, and some days it seems that the paperwork in your office has spawned new generations of paperwork overnight, then my trick for attacking clutter may help you.

Spring has finally arrived and the hot days of summer are just around the corner. Now is the time to address some key maintenance items around your house to get everything in proper working order and to minimize your energy and water needs.

Whether you share a dorm room at college, live in your first small apartment, have a house that is bursting at the seams, or reside in a spacious home, it’s possible to create a space that is yours. You alone can define what sacred space means to you.

With five simple, everyday products, you can have your home and all its contents gleaming. In his book, Clean: The Humble Art of Zen-Cleansing, Michael De Jong makes a compelling case for tossing out all those expensive, caustic cleaners you have under the sink.

In the summer of 1961, we left the United States to join my father in Aschaffenburg, Germany. The sun was warm and unblinking when Daddy met us at the Frankfurt military airport.

Early this summer, on our 40th wedding anniversary, we went to Wimberley in the Texas Hill Country to meet some friends at their handsome antique rock cabins along the Blanco River.