BLOG: Moving Right Along

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell Our kids always knew what they wanted to be for Halloween. Or at least they never outwardly pondered their costumes. As a matter of fact, our daughter…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell Buying backpacks, spiral notebooks, and folders festooned with kittens is one thing. Shopping for comforters, coffee makers and Twin XL sheets is another. No doubt about it,…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell Our family gave up hotel vacationing a long time ago, and instead have been going the rental route. Stan, the kids and I manage quite well in…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell You’re on Day 3 of vacation, that delicious zone where you are 98% relaxed, and you’ve got more vacay ahead of you than behind you. You’ve slept…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell I was at a convention last week, and as it was nearing the end, I heard a guy tell the people he was with, “I’m tired. I’m…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell I don’t know about you, but even if my teenaged daughter and I haven’t had a screaming match that day, she’d still rather text me than call…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell When did I go from penis and breast enhancement SPAM, to cures for gout and high cholesterol? Or cutting my electric bill and thinking about reverse mortgages?…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell I am writing this on May 4, 2015. And if you’re a Star Wars fan—and especially if you’re Howard Yermish fan—you already know what is meaningful about…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell I will never forget that day in December 1988. I had just given birth to my son—my first child—the month before. It was grocery shopping day, so…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell What is the most disgusting food you can think of from your 50s or 60s childhood? Hamburger Helper? Spam? Fizzies? According to Michael Moss, it was Kraft…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell Confession: I’m sleeping with someone besides my husband. And Stan’s okay with it because he’s sleeping with this guy, too. We’re sleeping with Fred. He’s our dog. Once…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell When my friend Carol and I were sophomores in high school, we’d have sleepovers most Saturday nights. When we slept at her house, we’d share the double…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell Okay. I don’t want to alarm you, but industry specialists are predicting that by 2020, we could be in for a major chocolate shortage. And though 2020…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell I’m not an expert, but I did publish a magazine for and about Baby Boomer Women for seven years, plus I happen to be one (a Baby…

By Guest Blogger Peter K. Studner Each time you make it past the resume review stage and interview with a potential employer, the meeting seems to go really well. But…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell It occurred to me recently, that back when my husband and I were college-shopping with our now-26 year old son, it was a shared responsibility. It was…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell Lately, the first place I hear of a celebrity passing is Facebook. It’s not that I don’t keep up with the news. It’s just that so many…

By Kris Rotonda, Guest Blogger While one-third of all married couples started their romance online, (according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), only 23% of those who…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell I came to Elsie at a time when I had some heavy duty medical issues. None of them were related, and there were a number of doctors…

By Tobi Schwartz-Cassell Master Psychic Medium Carole Tollen was at her finest at F & B’s first event—“Halloween on the Farm with Psychic Carole Tollen.” As a psychic, Carole gave…