By Gary Geyer
Whoever said the guy is full of surprises didn’t say enough. Steve Martin is known as a comedy writer, stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, novelist, comedic historian (narrator of an NPR series on comedians of the 20th century) and Academy Awards host. In between engagements he composes songs, plays banjo […]

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By a 58 year old grandmother

My grandson asked me what I thought of such things as the shootings at schools, computers and what it was like when I was young.
I took a few minutes to think
Let’s see. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xeroxes, contact lenses, Frisbees and The Pill. There […]

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By Debbie Weir

When grandparents experience the death of a grandchild, they must grieve even as they help their own children cope with the loss.
Cathy Hefflinger and Barb Anderson understand grief. In fact, they understand a particularly debilitating grief many people never consider, few books have been written about and hardly anyone discusses.
It is a […]

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By E. Christina Dabis

Question: Because the word “bonding” is so politically correct, are you doomed to fail? Answer: No! Just remember your grandkids have little friends and you don’t look anything like them. They want a grandparent, slightly eccentric, with some money, a car, a driver’s license and a great sense of humor.
So […]

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By Lauren Teegarden
Adults depend upon a 24-hour barrage of news. Television, radio, newspapers, or the internet act as a necessary link to the world for
adults, but many children find the process—and the adult reaction— both confusing and frightening.
Exposure.
Most adults don’t realize just how much exposure children get to the news, even if parents […]

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By Susanna Starr

Although we recognize the merits of feeling good, balanced, open, light, and just plain healthy on all levels, we don’t always do for ourselves what we know to be best. So, up we come with excuses (just to name a few).

Some Common Excuses

I don’t have time […]

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By Ciji Ware, author of “Rightsizing Your Life: Simplifying Your Surroundings While Keeping What Matters Most” (Warner Books/Springboard Press, debuted Jan. 2007)
 

There’s a downside to downsizing, in my view…because out there in the real world, there is no “one square footage formula fits all.” The truth of the matter is that as people […]

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By Susanna Starr
Conscious Living
Most of us don’t spend our life on a tightrope, but being in balance through a state of living consciously is an ongoing exercise. It means that all our arenas are treated with the same focus with the same aim.

1. Better bodies
Some of us our very aware of keeping our bodies fit […]

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By Susanna Starr

It’s funny how certain things stick in your mind. For me one of those things was something my father told me when I was about nineteen. They weren’t really his words but his doctor’s and somehow, I always remembered them.
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By Gary Geyer.
Once upon a time there wasn’t a gay rights movement. Gays and lesbians were harassed by the police and ridiculed by most everyone else. Many kept their homosexuality a secret.
That was only thirty five years ago, in 1969, (the same year as Woodstock), gay activists took a stand at the Stonewall Inn […]

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