Explore Washington DC with the Best Years Center

The Best Years Center Day Trips have been eagerly anticipated outings for local seniors for a long while. This year the Best Years Center  is stepping their trips up a pretty big notch by adding new vacations packages for seniors that bring them quite a ways from their homes in Southeast Texas. One of the trips will be to Washington DC, with the help from Travel with Collete Vacations, and this DC trip will have Southeast Texas Seniors exploring just about every inch of the... Read More

The Advantages of Harbor Home Health Care

You don’t have to be Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz to know there’s no place like home! There truly is no place like home. Harbor Home Health offers Southeast Texas seniors a way to stay in their own homes. The home most seniors have lived in for decades, with all of their things surrounding them, all of their memories still in tact. Home health care allows them to remain in their home whether it’s after an injury or hospital stay, a chronic illness that requires more care... Read More

Are You Prepared to Live til 90?

While living to the age of 90 was once a rare feat, it is becoming increasingly common. You may be surprised to learn that the fastest growing demographic in the country is people over the age of 85. According to the latest life insurance mortality tables, 38 percent of men and half of women age 65 today can expect to live to the age of 90 or beyond. Being able to live a long and full life is good news, of course. But you will have to plan well to be sure that you don’t... Read More

Gladys City Cowboy Ruckus and Camp Out

Mark your calendars for a rowdy and raucous celebration of Southeast Texas ranching heritage! Featuring World Champion Whipcracker and Trick Roper CHRIS McDANIEL On Saturday, April 20th at Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown on University Drive in Beaumont on the Lamar University Campus. With special guests: The Big Thicket Outlaws Beaumont Vintage Base Ball Team Former Texas Rangers Association The Back Porch Friends Dulcimer Group There will also be a Pie-Eating Contest, Games,... Read More

Southeast Texas – Supports our Soldiers

Recently,  I was driving on Highway 69 in Beaumont when a loud “ping” signaled that it was time to fill up on gas. I pulled off on Lucas and into the corner gas station. A fully uniformed soldier was standing with his military duffel. It was on my heart to go over and say something, but I first started the tedious process of gassing up my vehicle- inserting my credit card, putting in my pin, selecting the fuel type. In that short time, less than a couple of minutes, my heart... Read More

Lamar Football Homecoming

Lamar Football and Homecoming: Cardinals vs. McMurry As SETXseniors, we grew up watching football. Some Southeast Texas seniors fondly remember the day of leather helmets and gifted players regularly playing both offense and defense. When the temperatures dip below ninety degrees, we remember all of the glorious activities of youth- drifting a live mud minnow for fall flounder, following a spirited dog sniffing for quail, and watching football. Football was gone from Lamar for... Read More

Chambers House Party

Do you ever see a beautiful old home and wonder about its story? Who lived there? What kind of life did they live? How did they do all of the things we do today- cook, clean, entertain? You can drive anywhere in Southeast Texas and see a number of beautiful old homes that look like they have incredible stories to tell. Fortunately, each of our Golden Triangle communities has homes that have been preserved to answer just these questions and curiosities. One of these grand homes... Read More

Affordable Care Options

Many baby boomers assume they will end up in a nursing home if they develop a chronic illness. But that’s not true for most of us. The vast majority of people who become chronically ill are cared for in their own home by a loved one or a friend. That includes more than two-thirds of people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. So why do most chronically ill people move into a nursing home? It may surprise you to learn that it’s not because their health worsens.... Read More

Road Trip: HWY 287

Southeast Texas Senior Citizens are fortunate to have a number of wonderful activities to enjoy right here at home. Music, theater, great food, and Lamar football is just around the corner. Every few weeks though, my wife and I like to pile in the car for an old fashioned road trip. A classic road trip is just as much fun today as it was twenty years ago. Recently, we took advantage of an opportunity to get away to Dallas to visit some friends. On a warm Sunday morning, we took... Read More

Foot care tips to keep boomers moving

Just a few decades ago, the phrase “granny shoes” implied a tragic lack of coolness, and that the wearer had allowed comfort to trump style in their slow shuffle toward getting old. Those days are definitely gone. Today’s baby boomers and seniors are stepping out in everything from frisky flip-flops and hot heels to righteous running shoes and powerful hiking boots. Footwear is no longer dictated by age, but rather by the activity level and fashion sense of the... Read More

Calling the Wind

Lewis and Clark were greatly responsible for opening the American West for further exploration and settlement. Their dangerous travels provided Americans early maps, descriptions of a great wealth of natural resources that would belong to the American people, and provided useful information for Americans regarding the terrain, dangers, and challenges, they might expect to find in the coming Westward expansion. The expedition to transverse the North American continent led by Meriwether... Read More