Barbara Morris

If you are a reader of Put Old on Hold, you are likely of an age when and a mindset in which you are increasingly inclined to reflect on how your life-lessons-learned have influenced who you have become and importantly, on how you can pass those lessons along to future generations. There is an African proverb which teaches, “When the roots are deep, there is no reason to … [Read more...] about Deep Roots – Strong Branches

One of the many things in our culture that makes me crazy and needs to change is the belief in a simple but powerful equation that rules and ruins too many lives: Advanced chronological age equals incompetence. Your chronological "number" (age)  is most important and more telling of your mental and physical competence than anything else. Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!   From year … [Read more...] about You Are More Competent Than You Think

So, why DO we eat when not hungry? Here’s my top 10 list and probably yours, too: Someone said we need to eat 3 meals plus snacks every day, or we’ll die. We have nothing else to do so we eat. We’re addicted to sugar and we just eat more sugar. Comfort food is yummy. To deal with our stuff. To be social – someone took the time to make something, so I better … [Read more...] about Why Do We Eat When We’re Not Hungry?

Remember your youth?  Your first day of school… Your first time to the movies?  Your first date?  Your first anything… Depending on your culture, each of these memories will conjure up specific feelings, memories, and peer pressures.  I’m willing to argue that “peer pressure” is just a less threatening way to say “brainwash”. Brainwash? Propaganda? Nah, that’s just the way … [Read more...] about Do YOUR Thing, Not THEIRS

I was thinking about olive oil the other day. In the Bible, anytime someone was to receive a special blessing from God, olive oil was poured on the person’s head. How is olive oil obtained? Olives are pressed. The fact is that we have a whole lotta pressing going on these days. Some people being pressed and squeezed, whatever the cause, release vitriol, rather than the oil of a … [Read more...] about All You Need Is Love . . . The Right Kind

As I’ve mentioned earlier, I came to this country as a child when the Soviet Union broke up and my parents decided to take a shot at this land-of-opportunity thing.  I might have been only 10 or 11, but one thing I’ll tell you is this: one’s idea of “normal” is hugely formed by then. Examine Your “Normal” Despite the fact that things were about to go from bad to worse for … [Read more...] about Stop Taking Wardrobe Cues From Hollywood

I just finished reading Erin Olson’s book, Spiritual Orphans: A Generation in Crisis. Published in 2019 (which feels like a lifetime ago), it covers pre-COVID and pre-whatever-the-heck-you-want-to-call-what’s-happening-now topics. Yet, so often, she could have been writing a contemporary Blog, as some of this same “stuff” was going on then. For our purposes, I suggest … [Read more...] about Can These Bones Live?

While I’m a firm believer you can have whatever you set your mind to, this can also be a detriment…especially to your health…let me explain. Have you ever said this to yourself? “It doesn’t matter what I eat anymore because I’m XX age and I deserve to eat what I want?” AKA I’ve earned like it’s another rite of passage. Seriously? There’s a true health cost of eating what … [Read more...] about The Cost Of Eating What You Want