Advocating Non-Traditional Lifelong Growth and Productivity
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?
New Muscular Dystrophy Treatment Approach Developed Using Human Stem Cells
Researchers from the University of Minnesota's Lillehei Heart Institute have effectively treated muscular dystrophy in … [Read more...] about New Research for June, 2012
I am accustomed to being 'a doer'; I am active in many things and LIKE it like that! I was recently in the hospital in Tampa because I had become weak and constantly tired. This is not ME! I want to go back to doing my 'thing', whatever it is!. I am not happy as an invalid! I don't want to sit down and REST just from walking across a room! Whoever came and got ME in exchange … [Read more...] about Help! Somebody, Get Me Out of This ‘Resting Chair’
As a woman, do you dread walking into an auto showroom, wanting to buy a car but fearful of being taken advantage of? Girlfriend, fear no more. Everything anyone needs to know about buying a car is presented in Wendy Marie's new ebook: Ladies, Let's Buy a Car. Wendy Marie went from not knowing anything about buying a car to … [Read more...] about Ladies, Let’s Buy A Car
One often is under the impression that the wealthy have the advantage of better access to health care. However, this is not always the case. Perhaps if Steve Jobs took better advantage of what alternative medicine has to offer he may have had a different outcome – it certainly could not have been worse.
Recently, Warren Buffett, 81, announced that he … [Read more...] about Prostate Cancer – Is It Better To Be Poor?
Do you make a genuine effort to process through and beyond negative emotions? If you don’t, and these emotions get stuck in your energy field, life can become one drama after another.
You’re here to live and to learn from your day-to-day experiences. You can allow your experiences to be toxic to you energetically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and bodily, or … [Read more...] about Reduce the Drama in Your Life and Become Your Own Healer
Living in a consumer culture has one drawback. It means you end up with a lot of “stuff” after a while. This can go on for years without notice, but when it’s time to move, the horror of what you’ve accumulated can be downright terrifying.
I just moved. I’m painfully aware of “stuff.” Since I’ve moved into space someone’s already occupying, there’s also the challenge … [Read more...] about Dealing with “Stuff”
Recently I watched videos of women in their nineties who are yoga masters. One woman, Ida Herbert, 93, started practicing yoga at age fifty. Watch her video . . .
Comments made about the video include:**This is beyond awesome! Go, Ida!!!
**She's adorable and she's kinda hot!? lol
**Inspiration for all of? us who are no longer very … [Read more...] about She’s 93 – So What?
Many cities around the United States are now publishing “street newspapers”. These publications focus on the homeless and provide a unique way for them to rise slowly out of their desperate situation. The newspapers are available to the homeless for a fraction of the cost and are sold for $1.00 each. Each vendor signs a contract and is assigned a certain location to sell his … [Read more...] about Helping The Homeless Help Themselves
