Category: Self Improvement
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One Bite at a Time
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week I wrote about all the stuff, mostly Randy’s, that no longer serves me. The idea for that post came from the widow and grief materials that bombard me daily on Facebook. Those algorithms really work. This week I saw several things that made an impact on me. I used to… Read more
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What No Longer Serves Me
Reading Time: 5 minutesI am really starting to miss Randy. Being alone in this house is a completely different experience than I’ve had for all of my life. Several of my friends still check on me every day. Some of their eyes glaze over when they ask what I did that day. I laughed when… Read more
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Adventure Awaits
Reading Time: 5 minutesDo you ever look back on seemingly random and minor things in your life that somehow all line up and create, perhaps even far into the future, something significant and meaningful? It feels like so many little (some really little, like the stickers I’m about to tell you about) things that happened… Read more
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Feeling the Love
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn day-to-day life in America in 2026, we throw the word love around like a politician throwing candy in a local small-town Memorial Day parade. We’re trained and conditioned to hear and say we love or are loved so often and so easily that it pops out of mouths automatically, sometimes at… Read more
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Theo of Golden
Reading Time: 5 minutesMy friend Michele received a copy of Theo of Golden for her birthday last month. She read it quickly, then loaned it to me when she went to Guatemala on her memoir writer’s retreat earlier this month. I’d never heard of the book, but when I looked it up, I was interested… Read more
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About That Excellent Nonsense
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week my friend, Carla, told me about a book she was reading with the genius title of Slowing Down to the Speed of Joy. I mentioned I’d like to read it and she gifted me with one of the 5 copies she bought at an author’s event recently. The premise of… Read more
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Too Peopley
Reading Time: 5 minutesHas anyone ever asked you whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert? It’s a fairly common question, especially during job interviews during our working years. As a former human resources development manager, I know the value of the answer to this question when hiring an employee. But Aristotle said, “knowing yourself is… Read more
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What If…Our Souls are Eternal. And Eternally Active.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere’s no controversy over whether or not humans have a soul. I can’t think of a single person who doesn’t believe that. Most people, including Christians, believe that our souls are eternal which, by definition means lasting or existing forever, without beginning or end. Where the controversy starts is when those souls… Read more
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What If…There’s No Money in a Healthy Population
Reading Time: 5 minutesImagine an America in which you had to go to a specialty store to get any clothes size with an X in it. Imagine an America in which you know almost no one taking prescription medicine. Imagine an America in which only 1 in 2,000 children are diagnosed with autism (as in… Read more
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A Good Night’s Sleep–Priceless
Reading Time: 2 minutesI woke up this morning groggy and sluggish. At least I slept, a little. As we age, good restful sleep seems harder and harder to achieve. And as we age we need good restful sleep more than ever. Good quality sleep boosts the immune system, enhancing our body’s ability to repair and… Read more