Barbara Morris

What a combination patience, privacy and pride bring when an older person is living with adult children and grandchildren! It is a challenge and takes determination and love from all

who are involved. For a few more months I will be sharing my home in the woods with a daughter and her two youngest children, ages 13 and 7. I have stopped referring to these six acres … [Read more...] about Patience, Privacy, and Pride

Hardly a week goes by when we aren’t pummeled by the latest round of troubling economic news. Unemployment is still high; job growth remains stagnant. The stock market is down sharply and the weak housing market remains mired with foreclosures. Washington seems broken, with Democrats and Republicans locked in deep disagreement about how to fix the economy. Meanwhile, we’re … [Read more...] about Time to Teach Kids Old Fashioned Fiscal Values

The premature passing of Steve Jobs was clearly a profound tragedy but we can use it to take to heart some of the wisdom he lived his life by and possibly improve our own life.

I want to share with you the role naturopathic medicine can play in supporting and/or complimenting conventional medicine. When it comes to cancer, the belief in conventional medicine is that anything that removes or reduces the tumor is good, even if it weakens the body in the process. Since practitioners of complementary medicine focus on the cause of the tumor, they … [Read more...] about Naturopathic Cancer Treatments

So, Warren Buffett's son says his father, now 81, will never retire. That's a brilliant decision. Obviously, Buffett is smart enough, and has been around long enough to see many of his retired peers in the throes of varying stages of decline because they tossed their mind and body onto the retirement scrapheap called the "vegetation plantation."

He undoubtedly knows … [Read more...] about Warren Buffett: The Vegetation Plantation Is Not For Him

This month, the Know It All Sisters, Mary Lloyd and Barbara Morris tackle this plea for help in the mailbag:

Our forty-something daughter Delia is getting married. This will be number three and she insists he's "the one." (The other two were also "the one.") She also had live-ins who were "the one." Our two other children (males) are married to their original … [Read more...] about Should We Pay for Our Middle-Aged Daughter’s Wedding?