Youthful Aging — YOU Can Do it
Youthful Aging – Yes, YOU Can!
Most women don't believe they can remain amazingly youthful in the older years. Many women say to me, "You look so young because you have good genes". My genes are no better or worse than any other woman's genes. I just knew at an early age that I had the ability to exert enormous control over my aging process. (It helps to have a tough Germanic temperament). At age 10 I KNEW I was never going to be "old". I didn't know how I was going to do it but I knew I could. I recall seeing a picture of a pretty young woman on the cover of a Ladies Home Journal magazine and I wanted to look like … Read more
Barbara Morris
Dos and Don’ts For Date-able Divas
Several years ago the Dr. Phil Show aired a story about a 70-year old woman who had an online romance with a man she never met. Over time she had given him more than $200,000 to facilitate a meeting which was never to happen. Here are links to snippets of the two-part show: http://drphil.com/shows/show/2405/ and http://drphil.com/shows/show/2406/ I found the show profoundly disturbing. The woman, Kaye, behaved belligerently to put it mildly. After Dr. Phil exposed her "boyfriend" as a scam, her negative reaction and rejection of Dr. Phil's exposure would have made it easy to say "She got … Read more
Tatyana Wilson
“Dress Your Age” Is Not A Put-Down
You’ve heard that phrase, “Dress your age!” and it never fails to come off as a put-down. I, however, will assert that “dress your age!” is an invitation to celebrate the kind of elegance and well-developed, authentic style that’s hard to find in modern trends and fads. I have a teenager; he is sometimes a little scary. I noticed something that started to happen around 13-14 with him and that is the occasional disregard for reality/facts in favor of adhering to what the majority thinks or does. Let me explain: I say to him, “You need to do x,y, and/or z,” and instead of thinking about … Read more
Joyce L. Shafer
The Pandemic of Shaming
The word “pander” is only a few letters different from “pandemic.” Both represent disease in humans that can injure or worse. Here’s a definition obtained online for pander: gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need or habit, or a person with such a desire, etc.). The same source defines pandemic as meaning prevalent over a whole country or the world. We’re currently experiencing this latter one in significant ways. What about the other one? I’ve felt it. And acted on it. You’ve likely felt it, and perhaps acted on it. It is that compulsion to express an opinion in a … Read more
Pat Garner
Consequences of Stress
How many times do we hear we shouldn’t be stressed out? I believe the COVID-19 pandemic has stressed us out to max capacity. We’re at home, maybe out of a job, possibly homeschooling, many with significant others 24/7 and we have organized our homes until there’s nothing left to do. We’re stressed about being the next statistic and undoubtedly stressed about the unknown. What does all this stress do to our bodies? Where should I start? Let’s start with the hormone cortisol. In our primitive ancestor’s time if we were face to face with a saber tooth tiger the adrenals would fire adrenaline … Read more
Eddie Andrus
Eddie Andrus, At 95 Walking Across The Country
Ernie Andrus is a World War II Navy Veteran and he is walking across the country. He turned turned 90 in August, 2013. He began in San Diego, California on October 7, 2013 and reached Saint Simons Island, Georgia on August 20, 2016. (one day after his 93rd birthday}. He's 95 now and started running the same course in reverse on March 16, 2019. He finished the first run in 999 hours, 32 minutes and I second. He is only running 13 miles a week now so it will take him 5 years. This feat is undertaken to raise money for the LST 325, a World War II era ship used to land equipment and troops on … Read more
Good Stuff To Know June 2020
Good Stuff To Know June 2020
Doctors are Euthanizing Mentally Disabled Patients Around the World, United States May be Next A few years ago, a Dutch doctor attended her elderly Alzheimer’s disease patient at a nursing home. The doctor’s purpose wasn’t to examine the patient or prescribe new medicines. Rather, she was there to kill. Simple question can lead to remedy for older adults' dizziness and impaired balance Does lying down or turning over in bed make you feel dizzy? This simple question effectively identifies whether a person suffers from benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, which is harmless and … Read more
