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Insight Into Adoption – 3rd edition – released August 2016 The adoption experience provides a unique look into life’s values, many of them very puzzling.  Once the logic of the experience of living in a family where members are not biologically connected is revealed, many issues that could be challenges turn into positive opportunities.  Adoptive parenting is … [Read more...] about The Challenges And Joys Of Adoption

  I am not irritated by the fact that I am ‘getting older’.  Common  sense, a rare quality these days, tells me that if I am not getting older, I am not here.  Sure, I move slower but who cares ??  I am thankful that I am mobile, getting around to where I need to be – WHEN I need to be there. I am slower deliberately – to a point - because I want to avoid a … [Read more...] about I Am Still Me !!!

By Alan Spector You sit at your desk, stand in front of your class, See clients all day, design landscapes, lead Mass, Run the company you founded, sell stocks and bonds, Help people with taxes, do morning rounds. You're a corporate exec, approve housing loans, Construct buildings, fly airplanes, clean teeth, sell phones, Keep the peace, fight fires, fix dented … [Read more...] about How Will You Know When It’s Time to Go?

A currently running TV commercial shows two teens arriving at their grandparents home. Instead of hugs for the kids, Grandma and Grandpa shove a handful of tech gadgets with dangling wires into the hands of the teens and greet them with, " We are so happy to see you. None of this works." The commercial perpetuates the myth that old people are incapable of learning anything … [Read more...] about Are Old People Their Own Worst Enemies?

Did you know that 2014 was the first time in 130 years during which more adults age 18 through 34 lived in their parents’ homes than lived with a spouse or partner? Did you know that over 25% of Baby Boomers are caring for aging parents in some way and that the percentage has tripled in the last 15 years? Now, consider that about 10,000 Baby Boomers retire every day.  … [Read more...] about Retirement Life Planning A Team Sport

Ivanka Trump, speaking at the Republican convention about her father Donald Trump,  said he always told her that since she would be thinking anyway, she may as well "think big".  It looks like that advice works for him. The saying, "thinking makes it so" is more profound than we realize. I truly believe we become what we consistently think about ourselves, and say out loud … [Read more...] about I Am AWE-SOME (And So Are You)

What do mental attitude, beliefs, and faith have as a common denominator? Self-talk—that great self-saboteur. Ready to take your conscious and subconscious self-talk to a whole new level? Often, the topics of mental attitude, beliefs, and faith can feel like something outside of us. Let’s place these firmly within us, where they belong, and as the power generators they are … [Read more...] about Mental Attitude, Beliefs, and Faith: A Foolproof Way to Shift What You Believe in Your Favor

Geisinger Medical Center in central northeast Pennsylvania will no longer allow its nurses to wear casual clothing to work after a patient survey revealed  a decline in the professional appearance of its nursing staff. The 505-bed hospital decided to reconsider its dress code after patients said they weren't sure how to identify different levels of nurses and nursing staff. … [Read more...] about The Resurrection of Dress Standards?