Barbara Morris

Let's begin with this. I was one of those children who clicked on a flashlight and read under the covers long after my mother called for "lights out." There was too much going on in my childhood books for me to give them over to something as needless as sleep. My mother was confident that I would burn my eyes out if I kept up that voracious reading, but I kept 20/20 vision until well … [Read more...] about Midnight Meanderings With My Friends And Me

Recently, a friend revealed that she took eight different meds a day. She complained she constantly felt "awful" and wanted me to tell her about her medications. I told her what the pills were commonly used for and she was shocked. One was for diarrhea that she regularly took from "day one" but didn't need anymore. How she could get the prescription refilled was a mystery to me. She was … [Read more...] about You Are What You Eat (And Meds You Take)

Yes, I did cry when I read this paragraph segment (stay with me—you’ll get the “why” shortly): “When a graft is united with the stock on which it is to grow, we know that it must be kept fixed, it must abide in the place where the stock has been cut, been wounded, to make an opening to receive the graft. No graft without wounding—the laying bare and opening up of the inner life of the … [Read more...] about This Brought Me To Tears

Recently, I provided a link for a 60 minutes video relating to people in their nineties. Millions in federal funds were used for research that … [Read more...] about What’s Missing In The Lives Of So Many Older People?

Life is simple, but we do our darndest to make it hard. We tend to live exclusively in the past, or fortune tell about the future. So why can’t we live in the present moment? For most people, that’s a tricky thing to do. I have asked people if they can stay in the present moment, and for the most part, people don’t understand the concept. They can’t keep their mind from thinking about past … [Read more...] about Life is Simple But We Make it Hard

I recently watched an old 60 Minutes video dealing with "Living Into Your Nineties" A lot of government money was given to researchers to … [Read more...] about What Is Missing?

Taking it easy as you get older? Wrong A team of evolutionary biologists and biomedical researchers layout evolutionary and biomedical evidence showing that humans, who evolved to live many decades after they stopped reproducing, also evolved to be relatively active in their later years. The researchers say that … [Read more...] about Good Anti Aging Stuff To Know December 2021

How did I miss the box propped against my neighbor’s door?  In my haste to respond to the delivery driver’s call, announcing that my groceries had arrived, I missed it. I live on the first floor of our 90-unit 55 plus community, so responding to the mail carrier or the UPS person is usually a breeze. The thing is, I am down the hallway, and if you’ve ever seen the movie “The Shining,” … [Read more...] about Kindness Costs Nothing

Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan has always said, “You don’t always get the dog you want, but you get the dog you need.” That statement couldn’t be more accurate. Our family has had a wiggly-butt Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Sam and Jack, a high-energy Australian Cattle Dog. Over the years, we sadly said goodbye to them. Most recently, we lost our sweet Corgi Sam. If you’re a pet parent, you … [Read more...] about I’m Grateful For Our Quirky Pet