Taming the Social Media Monster
"When I first joined Facebook, I was so excited about being able to communicate with relatives, friends, and former coworkers scattered around the world. I enjoyed it so much that I also started using other programs, too. But social media has become more complex...
Authenticity
The past few weeks have been incredibly hectic. My granddaughter’s first birthday (complete with birthday party), Christmas, two visits from my son and his family, and getting ready to move to a different community in early January, along with my normal tasks and...
Just One Word
Words dominate our lives. We speak and sing them, read them, write them, hear them, and think them. The barrage of words — from both external sources and from our own internal dialogue — can be distracting, even overwhelming. It can be helpful, then, to step...
Significant — Six Ordinary Women, One Extraordinary God (Book Review)
Significant - A Study of Women in Jesus’ Genealogy: Six Ordinary Women, One Extraordinary God (Bonfire Books, 2020) is, as the cover states, a study of six women in Jesus’ genealogy. In the “Author’s Note”, author Rachel Risner, wife of a minister and mother...
Tricks for Change
Ahhhh . . . retirement. A time of doing as much of the things we want to do and as little or none of what we don’t want to do.That’s what I thought life beginning the first day my own retirement. I had made a list of things I wanted to do more of or add to my life,...
Are You Emotionally Hungover?
I occasionally experience what I call an “emotional hangover”. Before I go on, I want to stress that an emotional hangover is something that is temporary and, for want of better word, “mild”. If you are experiencing any of the emotions I’m about to talk about...
Holiday Preparation, 2020–Style
Across the country, Americans are preparing for what are arguably our nation’s most-celebrated holidays — Thanksgiving, Chanukah (Hanukkah), Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve.These holidays will, like those that have already been celebrated this year, no doubt...
Prime Time Living
When I was growing up here in the Midwest, there was a three-hour block of television programming — from 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. on weekday nights (an hour later on both coasts) — that was referred to as “prime time viewing”. During those prime time hours, the 3...
Thriving in Unexpected Circumstances, Key Strategy #1
If you have a fb account, you may have seen and chuckled at the following meme:Of course, it’s referring to the pandemic, self-quarantining, etc., of the past several months, but for many of us in the 2nd mile of life, it applies in other ways as well. For one...
Get Ready to Make Lemonade
If it’s one thing those of us in the 2nd mile of life have learned, it’s that life rarely turns out as we planned and expected. In fact, it could be argued that we often find ourselves in circumstances that we would not, even in our wildest imaginings, have...
