I love this picture above. It is marked The Circle of Life, but for me – it has value beyond that simple phrase. This photo to me depicts HOPE and RESILIENCE. HOPE for the future as exemplified by this little tyke as he begins to walk in his own. RESILIENCE as exemplified by this elderly Continue reading
Author: Iris Ruth Pastor
A Perfect Christmas Activity
It’s midday on a Tuesday. CNN is playing softly in the background as I routinely empty the dishwasher – ruminating over my present state of aloneness. How much longer until I see my kids? Tickle and hug my grandkids? As I separate clean knives and forks and drop them into the slotted drawers, my Continue reading
THE SECRET TO LIVING THE LIFE THAT YOU CRAVE DURING COVID!
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting high rates of depression – and political and economic uncertainly is contributing to our feelings of despair – even with the dawning of a number of vaccines on the immediate horizon to fight Covid-19. How can we counteract these feelings? How can we surmount our mood Continue reading
Read this column if you like doing things YOUR way!
What I love: You know what I love about having my very own weekly newsletter? It can be any length It can be about any subject It can be with or without images It can be with or without subtitles And the subject line can be as long or as short as I choose For Continue reading
What’s Guaranteed to Raise Your Spirits?
What’s Guaranteed to Raise Your Spirits? I’ll give you a few hints. It’s available, cheap, accessible and effective. It’s HUMOR. Take the following joke as an example: My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a Continue reading
Thank Goodness Thanksgiving is Over!
Whew. Thanksgiving is over. I got past the disappointment of not being with all five of my sons sharing turkey and sweet potato casserole the first time in decades – and then looking around the table at my huge family network as it expanded and contracted over the burgeoning years. I embraced with optimism the Continue reading
Maybe
Maybe tomorrow I’ll walk down to the end of my block and watch the sun rise over the bay at 6:56am. If I’m not too busy stretching out my back muscles, rotating away the tightness in my shoulders, unclenching my jaw, softening my brow. Maybe tomorrow… But the plants need watering. I promised a new Continue reading
Barring the Belly Button at Midlife and Beyond?
Now that the election is over – though by some, the results are still being contested – maybe we can return to the more “important” things in life to consider, such as whether to bar or not bar our belly buttons at midlife and beyond. This is an important question – surfacing at least once Continue reading
Turning Churning Emotions into Productivity!
This week was quite an emotionally packed week no matter whom you voted for POTUS. Trump and Biden fight it out to the end as election officials faced long hours and close vote counts in battleground states. History was made on many fronts. So what better thing to do in the days following this historical Continue reading
Where’s all your junk going to end up?
My kids would say I definitely have too much time on my hands – and they are probably right. Cautiously spending as much time as possible at home cocooning during Covid encourages over scrutiny of my possessions. With a plethora of time on my hands, I begin documenting which of my husband’s and my possessions are Continue reading