Barbara Morris

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?

I recently received two reviews of my new e-book, I’m Not Goin’ There! While both reviews are complimentary, I am wondering if each reviewer read the same book. Consider the following two reviews: 

OH MY GOSH!! This is one of the funniest books I have read in so long. It reminds me so much of a Lewis Grizzard book that my dad had. I … [Read more...] about Did They Both Read the Same Book?