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NEW! Nancy Drew Inspired Boomer Mystery Series--NOW on Kindle

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Art Theft & Sex Trafficking

The Mystery of the Ming Connection is a light-hearted and riveting page turner with two serious themes: international art theft and sex trafficking.

Boomer retirees become Sleuths

 The story opens with the theft of a valuable Ming Dynasty jar from the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dr. Sandra Troux and her life long friends, Bobbi Power and Lizbet Sheridan, are quickly engaged in pursuing the elusive Gold Scarf Man, the probable art thief, across Korea and China. Two additional thefts of Ming porcelains from Seoul and Beijing threaten to set off an international scandal that is overshadowed only by a series of scurrilous kidnappings of local and foreign girls and young women—the closest to home being Bobbi’s college-student daughter Sophie Rose, adopted from China as an infant.

Taina Ziping

At the site of each theft and kidnapping is left a curious coin on which is engrave

d the words in Chinese characters — "Taina Ziping" and a right-facing swastika, the hideous sign of the Nazis. Two of the words on the coin hark back to the Taiping Rebellion of 1800s China. But what do the other two words mean and why is the Nazi symbol engraved on it as well? Is the coin left as a clue, an arrogant calling card, or a threat? And what does the Taiping Rebellion, the Nazi swastika, the desire for a valuable gold and diamond bracelet, art thefts and kidnapping all have to do with each other?

Chased on the Great Wall of China

In a series of thrilling chases and adventures—by horseback on the Great Wall, through the streets of Beijing in a blinding blizzard, and underground in a secret Xian tunnel system filled with cells of trafficked girls, Sandy and her sister sleuths pursue the heinous criminals to unravel the mystery of the Ming connection. The book’s climatic chapter brings the super shero trio face to face with the surprising and heart-stopping solution of The Mystery of the Ming Connection.

NOW here is another mystery: WHO IS CRYSTAL SHARPE? AND WHY IS HER BOOK FEATURED ON VABOOMER?

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Opening Your Heart

Opening one's heart is key to good health

After days at the keyboard my upper back and chest were in a huge knot. So the other day I was giving myself accupressure on my upper left ribs where they insert in the breast bone and these words keep sounding in my mind's ear---Open Your Heart, Open Your Heart. Again and again and again. I've been at this intention for many years--on the body level and on the emotional level.

Food and the Heart

With the history of heart disease in my family, good heart health is really important to me. I have changed my diet over the years--very little fried and that only in EE Olive Oil. Lots of veggies and fruits (OK some ice cream--esepcially when In the Keweenaw Peninsula--slaver over Jilbert's--the best in the world!) Little white or refined foods--almost no sugar or fructose.  I need to up my exercise. I need to shed 50 pounds.

This is the easy part.

Not Naive but Open

But the hard part is changing my mind to be trusting in the right way--not to be naive and seek alliances with those who would harm, but to keep my heart open to all the wonder and good that is out there.

To have my heart resonate to those vibrations and not to the ones that harm. Nowadays it is easy to become cynical and jaded...but my deep body message is to Open Your Heart to all that would bring love and abundance...LEAP! for it. and at the same time stengthen your heart with healing--people, sound, love, and herbs--such as hawthorne or lavender.

 

 

Is Your Community Ready for You and Other Baby Boomers?

New Report: "The Maturing of America - Communities Preparing for the Baby Boomers" To be Released June 2 in Washington, DC

Washington, DC - As the Baby Boom generation reaches retirement age, the profile of America's seniors is changing dramatically and its ranks growing significantly larger. By 2030, the number of Americans over age 65 is projected to be more than 71.5 million-by that year, more than one in five people in the U.S. will be seniors. How are local communities preparing for this major demographic change?

 

To answer this, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, with support from MetLife Foundation, is holding a news conference to unveil "The Maturing of America - Communities Preparing for the Baby Boomers," a comprehensive survey involving over 1,400 cities and counties across the nation. The survey assesses the progress of local governments in developing and implementing programs, policies and services that meet the needs of their older citizens.

Key areas examined include: disaster preparation, property tax relief, healthcare services, land use and zoning, housing, transportation, social services, elder abuse prevention, workforce development and civic engagement. The news conference will discuss highlights of the survey, followed by a panel discussion with leading experts, including the following invited speakers:

 

• Sandy Markwood, CEO, National Association of Area Agencies on Aging 
• Dennis White, President and CEO, MetLife Foundation
• Kathy Greenlee (Invited)*, Assistant Secretary for Aging, U.S.
• Administration on Aging
• ?Peter M. Rogoff (Invited)*, Administrator, Federal Transit Administration
• Evelina Moulder, Director of Survey Research, International City/County
• Management Association:

WHEN: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 10 a.m./ET

WHERE: The National Press Club, Murrow Room
              529 14th Street NW
              Washington, DC 20045

Note: For those who cannot attend in person, please dial 800-908-8386 to listen in and ask questions.

This year's survey is a follow-up to a 2005 look at the "aging readiness" of America's communities- released in a 2006 report-which found that few communities had undertaken a comprehensive assessment to create an "elder friendly," livable community for all ages. Given that the first Baby Boomer turned 65 in 2011, have things changed in five years, in light of the Great Recession and the current focus on tightening fiscal budgets? The current survey looks at the progress communities have made in preparing for America's aging population and identifies opportunities for improvement.>