Contents

(with easy to access links)

Active Living. Home page for activities. Not sure what to do today or looking for a new hobby? We provide hundreds of ideas.

• Life Styles. There are many environments in which to live: urban, rural, overseas, on a cruise ship, traveling in a motor home, or in a care facility. We provide basic information about all these places so you can research the possibilities.
  
• Travel. Specific vacations, cruises, tours, and similar activities.
  
• Recreation. Indoor and outdoor activities to give you ideas of things to do. Many of them you have never considered but are easy and fun. Others are quite challenging. Have you tried geocaching, locating places using GPS devices, a wonderful way to find new locations in your area? Interested in learning bocce?
  
• On The Road. Whether you travel by train, bus, car, motorcycle, or motor home, there are destinations you do not want to miss. We have a huge listing of both the popular and the unusual.
  
  In the Home. Home page for activities around the house.

• Entertaining. Whether you have one person visiting or five dozen, we provide links to sites to make entertaining easier and unique. There is also a suggestion about planning events outside your home, in your yard, a park, or a formal banquet hall.
  
• On the Table. Providing a listing of web sites that provide generalized or specific recipes and cooking suggestions. Each week we also feature a viewer's Favorite Recipe. Send yours (original only, not copied) to info@slightlycreaky.
  
• Leaky Pipes. Covering many types of household (and outside the house) repairs.
  
• Pets. Mice, horses, cats, fish, dogs, and dozens more. We provide information about care and feeding, boarding, medical and health. Have you ever thought about putting a GPS tracer in your dog or cat (or iguana)?
  
• Hobbies & Interests. Indoors or out, this section looks at the way people spend their leisure time. Designing model train layouts, knitting, gardening, collecting, exercising, and even creating web sites. We also have a special page for Online Games. There are 20 separate hobby pages, and some bonus pages.
  
• News, Information & Literature. Newspapers, news magazines, books (print and audible) are now available online. If you are interested in reading the New York Times, looking up what is showing on TV, or checking out information in an encyclopedia or dictionary, there are a huge amount of resources here.
  
• Virtual Communities. This is a Slightly Creaky exclusive, bringing you web cams from around the world. Watch cruise ships, traffic, take tours of zoos, and peek into nightclubs and resorts.
  

Medical & Health. Home page for information about "the human condition." You can link directly to subcategories below.

• Medical Information. Links to medical information, dictionaries, encyclopedias, drugs and home remedies, advocacy, and groups that support many conditions.
  
• Support Groups. Six pages of annotated links to sites that support people and families with specific medical ailments and conditions. From the most common such as heart disease, diabetes, and vision problems, to orphan conditions that get very little attention. They are all here. Links to Support Group pages:
  

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        L  -  M         N - O - P - Q          R - S           T - Z

• Family & Relationships. We choose our friends, but not our family. Relationships are difficult, whether between spouses, parents and children, and siblings. This section provides links to sites that offer suggestions to improve and repair such situations.
  
• Nutrition. From the food pyramid to calorie counters, nutrition guides for general living or specific medical conditions, you can find links to helpful sites here.

Consumer Information. Information about things we buy and use. Each section contains annotated links to appropriate web sites so that you do not need to use a search engine. You will probably find things here that you never considered researching.

• Consumer Assistance & Scam Watch. Links to consumer information pages on the Internet where you can find product reviews and comparisons, safety suggestions, and product recalls. Includes links to scam recognition and assistance locations.
  
• Finance. Making handling money just a little bit easier. Our links and articles include writing and probating wills (and how to avoid problems), providing for a power of attorney, investing, scams, living wills, and dozens more topics. It also includes links for tax preparation and Social Security.
• Energy. Every day electricity, gas, and heating fuel get more expensive. There are alternative ways you can provide for these modern needs without having to depend on the mega-corporations. If "green" is the energy word of the 21st century, you'll find information here.
• Legal Information. With every state, county, town, and city having conflicting legal rules, we can not possibly provide all the information you might need. We do, though, have links to general law sites that update their information as needed. Also provided are dictionaries of legal terms. (We provide the links, but do not guarantee what you find is accurate. Consult a lawyer.)
  

Message Boards. It is our hope that the topics, information, and weekly columns will generate discussions.

About Us. Information about the people behind Slightly Creaky, our philosophy, goals, and volunteers. This includes our safety guidelines and a chronology explaining the development of this site.

Contact Us. We have a variety of E-mail addresses if you wish to submit an article, suggest a new link, or to otherwise get in touch with the Slightly Creaky team.

Volunteers. We need assistance in many areas (see the orange box to the right). This page explains in detail who, what, why, and how to become a volunteer. We also provide a list of those contributing articles and otherwise volunteering.

Legal Stuff. The required disclaimers, policies, etc.

Just For Fun. Well.... it's just for fun.