Cindy Gabriel

Taking the Dread Out of Holiday Visits

November 2006
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I often feel I regress from 54 to 14 years old, driving up the driveway to my parents’ house.  I am 8 by the time the door opens and 3 for the rest of the visit. —Newton Hightower, LMSW-ACP, President, Houston Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

So much about the holidays goes back to our relationship with our parents, …

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50 is the New 30

February 2006
At 50, Cheryl Lipshutz and Deborah Sondock never felt or looked better (Photo: ##http://www.solarisstudios.com##www.solarisstudios.com##)

It all started when Lauren Hutton appeared on the cover of AARP The Magazine under the headline, “60 is the New 40,” an early sign that the Baby Boomers—who redefined the “younger generation” in the 1960s and ‘70s—were about to strike again. As boomers began to line up and cross over the demarcation line of their 49th birthday, the generation …

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Hooh-Ya!

January 2006
Navy Seal Linda Akhter is a “Lifer” (Photo by Bill Baptist)

Navy Seal P.T. course shows no mercy

Whether Houston deserves its Fat-City reputation or not, one thing’s for sure: you are surrounded by friends and neighbors who are not taking things lying down. The Navy Seal Physical Training course is a fitness phenomenon, rooted in military tradition, which is attracting independent-minded professionals, willing to pay good money to get up …

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