We want to be happy. We want to enjoy life. So why do we fill the world with so many complaints? Why Do We Like to Complain? No one wants to feel that down in the mouth feeling they get when they find themselves in a sour mood. The muscles tighten up. The jaw clenches....
Getting older is not always easy, even for the middle aged. Growing Old Is Not Always Poetic “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things”. Maybe not “of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings” but of age and skin and growing old, of facing up to things. There...
I did not go to the doctor’s office much as a kid. I would like to think it was because I was healthy, but really it was because we could not afford regular health care. Back to Basics One visit to the doctor is forever burned in my memory. I was about 12 years old...
In medical school, I took a course in American Sign Language (ASL). I always thought it was beautifully expressive to relay information through the body. Poetry in motion, so to speak. If there is one thing we all need to learn, it is how to be better communicators. American Sign Language A few colleagues of mine...
I have to admit when I saw this comic in the Huffington Post, I laughed out loud. That is not always easy to do, being a Type A personality myself, but sometimes it is good to laugh at yourself. Life is too short to do otherwise. Type A Tribute to the Huffington Post Type A...
Do you remember playing musical chairs when you were little? It was popular at kiddie birthday parties. Outside of eating birthday cake (preferably chocolate), it was often one of the highlights. The Birthday Party Game A group of kids would get together and enough chairs would be put out for all but one of them....
If someone looks upset, I ask what’s wrong and *gasp* actually mean it when I ask if I can help. I hold the door open for people in public places. Sometimes I even pay for a free coffee for a stranger in line at a cafe. It is a golden egg that makes me feel...
On October 15, 2017, Alyssa Milano tweeted, “If all the people who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too.’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” In 2006, Tarana Burke, activist and program director for Brooklyn-based Girls for Gender Equity, first used the hashtag to...
We live in New England, but instead of cheering for the Boston Celtics, my son rocked a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey for years. How brazen! Life Is Basketball The truth is I will always root for his team, and he will for mine. That is what family is all about, or at least that is what...
The night my grandmother passed away, I took my dog outside for a walk. My Late Night Visitor As I opened the front door, I caught a movement at the corner of my eye. A red cardinal sat perched on a vine that wound its way through the slats on my porch. His color beamed bright...
