Southeast Texas Grandparents Increasingly Important in College Savings Planning

Southeast Texas Senior Retirement Planning Will you be helping your grandchild pay for college? Southeast Texas Parents have a lot of nightmares. A child’s illness or injury is understandably very high on the list. Increasingly, so is paying for college. Paying for college is particularly stressful, because parents know when it’s going to happen. Every day for two decades, they see the nightmare grow nearer. From the time a child is born, parents have a pretty accurate date... Read More

Southeast Texas Veteran’s News: The National Veteran’s Memorials

Southeast Texas Veteran’s News A visit to the National Veteran’s Memorials In Washington D.C. SETX Seniors was blessed with an opportunity to visit the veteran’s memorials in Washington DC. It was a family trip to see my brother who served his whole career with the US Coast Guard. It was a moving experience. Thank-you to each of you have served. We do a lot of articles on SETX Seniors about and for our Southeast Texas Veterans, so a visit to the nation’s... Read More

Southeast Texas Senior Resources. Get your Finances Fit for Summer

Southeast Texas Financial Planning for Seniors – Get your finances “fit” for Summer! For many Golden Triangle senior citizens, summer is a time of vacations: Day trips across the state to San Antonio, Big Bend, or Galveston Family reunions with loved ones we haven’t seen all year. Southeast Texas senior road trips with grandkids to destinations like Six Flags and Lego Land. Summer is also a time when SETX seniors tend to overextend our budgets in order... Read More

See You At The Pole Wed. Sept. 25, 2024

See You at the Pole   Student Led Prayer in the Community – East Texas and the Golden Triangle See You At The Pole is a student lead prayer event at school/ community campuses across the world. Students take a stand for their faith by gathering around the flag pole at their campus to pray for their schools, friends, teachers, and anything that touches the lives of the youngsters today. It is a very touching opportunity that will stir your heart. SETX Seniors can support... Read More

Meals on Wheels at Optimist Village- Fellowship for Southeast Texas Seniors

Southeast Texas Senior Resources  Meals on Wheels / Nutrition & Services for Seniors Southeast Texas has a wonderful culinary history. We have mastered barbecue, Cajun, Tex Mex, Southern cuisine, and fine foods.For many seniors, there comes a time when we just don’t want to cook every meal. For some SETX seniors, the rising cost of groceries makes it hard to keep the fridge as full as we’d like. In Southeast Texas, Nutrition and Services for Seniors pitches in and provides... Read More

East Texas Senior News – Credit Tips for Retirees

Southeast Texas Retirement Planning You have never had bad credit; make sure you also don’t have “no credit”. You’ve spent your whole life managing your money with flawless proficiency. You have a sparkling credit score and very little debt. But is it possible to get to a point where you have so little debt that you could actually fail to register a credit score? For Golden Triangle senior citizens who have paid off most of their major debts, such as... Read More

Senior Activities – Enjoy Cool Summer Treats Made at Home

Activity Guide for Senior Citizens  East Texas and Golden Triangle Region As temperatures climb this summer, cool down with tasty and colorful frozen treat recipes for your next backyard barbecue or pool party. Offer everyone’s favorite summertime treats – ice cream, sherbet and sorbet – in unique and unexpected ways, such as in refreshing beverages, delicious cake bars or whimsical parfaits. Mold frozen ingredients into bite-size treats using melon ball scoops... Read More

Southeast Texas Grandparents – Bring Your Grandkids to the Spindletop Museum Spring Break

Grandparents Guide to Beaumont and Southeast Texas Education + Fun = The Spindletop Museum at Lamar University Beaumont Many Southeast Grandparents are looking for the perfect Spring Break activity to share with the grandkids. Spindletop Museum Beaumont TX Head to the Spindletop Gladys City Museum for Gladys City Heritage Days. Southeast Texas Grandparents and their grandkids will enjoy a special passport tour of some of the industries, in addition to oil, that have helped Southeast... Read More

Caring for Your Southeast Texas Grandkids? Agencies Offer Much-Needed Help

Southeast Texas Grandparent’s Guide Help is Available for Seniors Taking Care of their Grandchildren Are you looking for information on caring for your grandkids in Southeast Texas? Almost all parents look forward to acquiring the new title of grandma or grandpa. Some get that plus one more thing: custody of  grandkids and a long-term commitment to care for them in their own homes. This is a reality for many Southeast Texas grandparents – it can be rewarding, but... Read More

Southeast Texas Senior News “Unburied Treasure: A Guide to Leaving Your Legacy”

Inspiration for Seniors in East Texas and The Golden Triangle Make Sure YOUR Story Lives On On today’s Southeast Texas senior news, we look at our Southeast Texas senior legacies- preserving our stories for family and for future generations. We have so many stories to tell – and too often our stories do not outlive us. At SETX Seniors  Magazine and SETXSeniors.com we love telling your stories – but we know you have so much more to share. Today we look at a book... Read More

SETX Senior News – Coping with Hearing Loss in a Social Setting

Senior Health News for Southeast Texas Coping with Hearing Loss in Social Settings On this edition of SETX Senior News, we look at issues surrounding hearing loss. For most of us, ignoring hearing loss is easier when we’re alone. We can turn up the volume on the TV or radio as loud as we want (disclaimer- mine is turned up pretty loud now!), and when alone we don’t have to ask anyone to repeat what they just said. But how do Southeast Texas seniors with hearing... Read More