Cathie Gandel

Works

Boomers mean business: six trends that changed the marketplace
From age-defying beauty serums to tummy tucks and a penchant for sushi, boomers have made billion-dollar industries out of countless products and services that barely existed when the first of the 78 million-strong generation was born in 1946.

Managing Gen Y Arrive Magazine, Sept-Oct 2010
They're young, they're hungry and they're coming to a workplace near you.

Lingo every investor should know
Important financial acronyms translated for the individual investor

Tips to help your garden grow -
It's the time of year when gardeners begin to fidget. The perennial beds are bedraggled. The shrubs need pruning. Before you get your hands dirty, these tips from experts will help you save time and money — and make your garden easier to tend as the weather heats up.

Buying a Hearing Aid - Print and online - AARP Bulletin, May 2011
A hearing aid will not completely restore your hearing — and there's no evidence yet that it will prevent dementia — but you can "expect substantial benefits," says Sergei Kochkin, who heads the Better Hearing Institute, an industry-funded nonprofit.

6 Figures to Financial Success
Numbers you need to know for financial security

Uncovering Ancient Brews, and Cures - Miller McCune Nov. 2010
When Patrick McGovern dons his Royal Purple latex gloves, the “Doctor Is In.” But this doctor isn’t working with live bodies; his “patients” are pottery sherds from ancient China, Egypt, Lebanon and even Honduras.


Jon Jerde in Japan:
Designing the Spaces Between

This story of how a freewheeling American architect and a staid Japanese developer worked together to create Canal City Hakata, an extraordinary retail/entertainment project in Fukuoka, Japan, became number four on The Los Angeles Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List in July, 2000.


A Family Tracks Down Outback Memories
The Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2003.
A family with two teenage sons takes a camping trip through the Australian outback and adds memories to the family album.

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Selected Works

Magazine article
Buying a Hearing Aid - Print and online - AARP Bulletin, May 2011
How to Get the Right Hearing Aid 10 tips to guide you
Online
Uncovering Ancient Brews, and Cures - Miller McCune Nov. 2010
Patrick McGovern’s alcohol-infused archaeology informs some of the best local alehouses, but the real benefit of his work may lie in the cancer ward.
Book
Jon Jerde in Japan:
Designing the Spaces Between

About the creation of "one of the most significant architectural works of the 20th century."
Newspaper Essay
A Family Tracks Down Outback Memories
One last trip with the kids has rewards beyond learning if koalas can walk.