Lifestyle - Page 6
Tatiana Santos
September 5, 2026 2:48 pm
Julie Andrews is 90 and feels like 50 — and the one thing she does first every morning isn't a diet or a pill
Dame Julie Andrews turns 91 in October, and she has more energy than I had at 27, a fact I've decided to take personally.
Crush of the day
Tatiana Santos
September 5, 2026 1:27 pm
Dolly Parton's secret California hideaway is for sale for $1.995M
Somewhere between the windmills and the Danish pancake houses of Solvang, California, sits a 1920s farmhouse where Dolly Parton spent a decade quietly being a person instead of an institution.
Tatiana Santos
September 5, 2026 1:22 pm
Sam Altman: a data center drinks no more than an office building — tell that to the neighbors in Georgia whose water turned muddy
Sam Altman would like you to stop worrying about the water.
Tatiana Santos
September 5, 2026 12:09 pm
It costs twice what wood chips do — and it's the cheapest mulch you'll ever buy: the one material you lay down once
There is a special genre of purchase I like to call the subscription you didn't know you signed up for. Gym memberships. Printer ink.
Tatiana Santos
September 5, 2026 10:44 am
NOAA's fall map has no cold spots left — not one state in the Lower 48: check what El Niño has planned for yours
Every year I open NOAA's seasonal outlook the way other people open their horoscope, and every year it tells me roughly the same fortune: warm, with a chance of chaos.
Tatiana Santos
September 5, 2026 9:18 am
$50,000 in an annuity: buy it at 60 or wait until 70 — the monthly difference is bigger than most retirees expect
Let's talk about the least sexy $50,000 you will ever spend. No kitchen renovation, no convertible, no regrettable timeshare — just you, an insurance company, and a monthly check until you die.
Tatiana Santos
September 4, 2026 2:33 pm
September Social Security checks come on 3 different days — here's the one thing that decides yours
Somewhere out there, a retiree is refreshing her banking app on September 9, watching her neighbor buy groceries with money that already landed, and wondering what she did to offend the federal government.
Tatiana Santos
September 4, 2026 1:06 pm
I blend banana peels with water once a week — my neighbors thought I'd lost it, until they saw what it does
Every Sunday, I stand at my kitchen counter and blend garbage. On purpose. With the confidence of a woman who has a system.
Tatiana Santos
September 4, 2026 11:41 am
Retired and not touching your 401(k) yet? That's the exact mistake that cost her 22% at 73 — and most people make it
There's a special kind of financial mistake that feels exactly like being responsible. This is the flagship model.
Tatiana Santos
September 4, 2026 10:27 am
Travis Kelce's charity raised $1.5 million — kids got $446,000, and the bigger check went somewhere much closer to home
I regret to inform you that we need to talk about a spreadsheet.