Barbara Morris

I am determined to enjoy a sense of achievement until my last breath! I refuse to simply sit and do nothing or just twiddle my thumbs. It is true that my list of ‘friends to call’ has gotten much shorter, mainly because many of them have died. I haven’t, so therefore I am going to enjoy the days I have left! There are few I can ‘do things with’, as in have … [Read more...] about Do What You Enjoy

May I share some important information that can easily save your life?  Let’s learn about the ABC’s of blood clots.

The ABC in our title stands for Avoiding Blood Clots, and while most of us have heard different things about this subject, most of us don’t know what are the most important things we can do each day to prevent blood clots.  My goal … [Read more...] about Learn the ABC’s of Blood Clots and How You Can Save Your Own Life Right Now

You’re excited because today is the day you’ve been waiting for. You have an appointment with the person in your Human Resources department who will go over your retirement packet containing all of your financial information. You’ll see exactly how much money you can expect to get each and every month under certain conditions, once you retire.

If you’re married … [Read more...] about Watch Out For This Retirement Blunder

It never ceases to amaze me that our medical system absolutely refuses to acknowledge that the most logical approach to treating a problem is to treat the cause of the problem. They have been using botulinum toxin ( Botox) to treat migraines, and now they are using it to treat women who have a problem with urinary urgency - when they have to go, they have to … [Read more...] about Botox for An Over-active Bladder: Are They Kidding?

“You know we really are incompatible”!   Surprising and unexpected words from my dad as my mother, my husband and me sat around their breakfast table on a Saturday morning five years ago.  His words were incompatible with what we had been discussing:  plans for a family celebration honoring their 65th anniversary.   His comment came from out of the blue.  … [Read more...] about My Parents’ Marriage

Something happens, and we want to know Why me? Why this? Why now? But those are not the best questions to ask. When is asking Why the right question? 

When something unpleasant happens, we tend to ask why; and often, negative stories quickly get attached as our ego-aspect starts rifling through old emotional files or starts imagining new, equally … [Read more...] about When Asking WHY Is and Is Not a Good Idea

A hand-written letter from Cuba arrived at the desk of the director of the American Occupational Therapy Association, where I’d been working for more than eight years. Passed on to me to translate because of my Spanish fluency, the writer, Armando Hernández, explained that he suffered from a rare disease that had already destroyed one kidney and most of the other. He had … [Read more...] about Letter from Cuba

In his book, Dressed to Kill, Colin McDowell admonishes women to never dress too closely by the book, because it looks as though you possess no real personality of your own. He says that breaking rules is an amazingly effective way of feeling better about yourself. 

Fashion magazines love to publish lists of what’s in and what’s no … [Read more...] about Your Image: Dressing By the Book

No…not that word.  When it comes to “F words,” the socially naughty one really doesn’t pack much punch.  It’s a rude, lazy way of letting off steam and not much more. You say it in exasperation.  You voice it with explosive frustration.  You yell it when you feel powerless.  And when you’re done, nothing much has changed.  It’s just a meaningless jumble of letters with a bad … [Read more...] about The “F Word”