Barbara Morris
Got White Hair? Try Orange!
Lately, my white hair has been annoying me. I think I'm going to change the color -- again. Thinking about the color I want to change it to, I remembered an article I wrote in 2007 that is just as relevant now as it was then. Here it is: Miss Dorothy, who cut and colored my hair for years, retired. I was devastated. After all, she's just a kid - she's only sixty. However, after I understood that she had a good reason to call it quits, I wished her well. But I miss her. She could make my sparse locks look as big and mean as an angry hornet's nest. Most of all, I miss her wisdom. For … Read more
Pat Garner
Bring More Joy And Happiness Into Your Life
In my travels, I realize people are unhappy with their relationships, jobs, financial situation, health, the weather, politics, where they live, how they live--the list is endless. I was prompted to write this article from a conversation with my son’s 29-year-old girlfriend, who was stressed and very unhappy with her job. I listened to her share how overwhelmed she’s becoming, and she cannot express her true talents. She was working as an event planner for a large and busy San Diego company. Her previous job was as a wedding planner (talk about stress!). I asked what her strengths were, and … Read more
Joyce L. Shafer
The Time to Choose Is Now
I wish I’d felt inspired to craft some other writing this month, but I didn’t. You see, I was at my office in Midtown Manhattan on that splendid Tuesday, September 11, 2001. And now, 20 years later, consider what’s happening in our country (USA)—especially at the southern border allowed to be open for nearly nine months (and in many ways, still is), in Afghanistan, and around the globe at this time. Friends, the “bottle has been uncorked.” What’s coming is a topic readily found in the Bible, and which I’ll not address here, at least not now. [I beg you to see the links provided at the end for … Read more
Good Stuff To Know September 2021
Cutting 250 calories daily and exercising may improve heart health in obese older adults Among older adults with obesity, combining aerobic exercise with moderate reductions in total daily calories led to greater improvements in vascular health compared to exercise alone. Reducing calorie intake by approximately 250 calories per day may lead to significant weight loss and improve vascular health in older adults with obesity. Exercise improves health through changes on DNA Six weeks of physical exercise led to changes in the epigenetic information of skeletal muscle cells in young men. … Read more
Zenobia Silas-Carson
Staying Connected In A COVID Culture
In the past year, I can hardly remember when I could make a phone call, expecting to hear the voice of a representative and not have the COVID message reminding me of the changes and holding me longer due to the pandemic. So, on the one hand, I tried to understand; on the other, I was a bit annoyed. The eternal season of COVID had marched into our lives and taken us hostage. An uninvited guest was unpacking its suitcase of contradictions, just as we were trying to make sense of all the political hoorah, the ongoing racial tension, and other unexpected guests attempting to take over our … Read more
COVID
COVID: The Truth Can’t Be Hidden Forever
The level of COVID-induced mass psychosis is astounding not just because it affects those with limited information, but it also affects supposedly intelligent, "normal" people who have lost their ability to think for themselves or listen to anything that is not in sync with what they believe. It has split our country into two distinct camps. If you thought the parental rage against Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools was divisive, the fallout from COVID training is just as bad, and possibly worse because we are relentlessly lied to with false information by our government and the mass … Read more
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