Advocating Non-Traditional Lifelong Growth and Productivity
You get to be a slug by accident. A recent move of mine confirms this. The house I owned for the last eight years was two-stories and on a quarter acre. Where I live now is single-story with very little yard. And lawn service for that! If I don’t turn this around soon, I will be shopping for clothes in ever larger sizes.
It was the right decision, and it’s a nice … [Read more...] about I Miss My Stairs
Older Adults May Need More Vitamin D to Prevent Mobility Difficulties, Study Suggests
Older adults who don't get enough vitamin D -- either from diet, supplements or sun exposure -- may be at … [Read more...] about New Research for July, 2012
Summer – the season when food is at its tastiest and clothes are at their tiniest. As soon as it breaks 70 degrees, ice-cream men everywhere don their little white suits and hop into their trucks. The streets flow with sweet tea, and the scent of funnel cakes is everywhere. It's a sugar-coated mine-field out there, and running the gauntlet isn't easy. But you don't have to … [Read more...] about 5 Tricks for Ditching Sugar and Dropping Pounds This Summer
Thanks to an unpublished 1935 manuscript written by her father, Linda Brown knows what occurred aboard The Seth Parker, a famous depression-era radiobroadcast ship during its ill-fated voyage between Pago Pago, American Samoa and Hawaii. A mutiny, led by her father and two other officers, prevented the new owners' planned scuttling for insurance purposes … [Read more...] about Where, Oh Where, Can a Lively Mature Woman Live?
Recently while waiting for my granddaughter at her school, I turned on the radio. Immediately, my attention was caught by the following words, "Over the last few years, statistics indicate that one in four divorces are couples with 30, and even, forty plus years of marriage”. I stopped the engine, turned up the volume, not to miss a word. The interviewee was Dr. Susan Brown, … [Read more...] about Successful Second Marriages and The Gray Divorce
I have been an avid reader since elementary school. For years I have gone to the local library to check out the limit of books allowed; number of books vary with different locations. Where I live in Alabama, one can get five books to read during a two-week period. Since I enjoy reading so much, I go each week to get my five books. I also buy many books but am running out of … [Read more...] about I’m Moving Out of My Recliner!
Do one or more parts of your life make you feel like you’re wandering in a wilderness, and you can’t find the exit? Maybe it’s time to see this for what it really is.
Three definitions of wilderness in my dictionary are: barren, empty land; a large, confused mass or tangle; a wild condition or quality. Circumstances sometimes feel like a wilderness experience, that … [Read more...] about Does Your Attitude Have You Stuck?
A recent court ruling coming from the chambers of three state court appellate judges in Allentown Pennsylvania during May 2012 proclaimed for the first time that a major financial liability could be imposed on an adult child in the absence of fault on the child’s part in creating the debt. It was the first time that a court of appeals allowed a nursing home to collect … [Read more...] about Adult Children: Responsible for Unpaid Nursing Home Bills?
One of the tragedies associated with our healthcare system is that there is no preventive medicine. Many people, doctors included, feel that giving flu shots and providing mammograms is preventive medicine. Well, flu shots do not prevent the flu and mammograms certainly do not prevent breast cancer.
I have been involved with hormones since my mother died of breast … [Read more...] about The Hormonal Abuse of Women
As a student in the Department of Recreation and Leisure (University of Waterloo, '71 - '75) I was excited about what the future promised. Every page of our required reading; the essence of our weekly lectures; and all supporting media messages focused on one thing ... the increase of leisure time and the challenges we would face because of it.
In a … [Read more...] about It Takes Work to Have Fun . . . But Should It?
