BY WENDY BOWMAN

I love it when my mom uses Facebook Messenger to call and video chat with me using her Facebook Portal device. I can hear her dog, Mocha, barking in the background, and sometimes my niece shows up to say hello, all while I show off my adorable new English bulldog, Rhyis, to the grandma she's never met.

by Rachel Nania, AARP

Website ratings and reviews matter to older adults, research shows

Let me guess: It's only the first full week of January and you're already questioning the goals you set on New Year's Day?

By Wendy Wood, The Conversation

More than 80% of people who make New Year’s resolutions have already given up on their goals by February.

By Mike Vardy

I haven’t made any new year’s resolutions. It’s not that I don’t believe in them or think that they don’t work. It’s that I don’t believe in them in January and know they don’t work at this time of year. So I don’t start my new year on January 1st.