The Only Constant is CHANGE – Addressing Bad Habits
April 2023 So, after closing the greeting card business 12/31/2022, I spent the next couple of months deciding on what I wanted to do in 2023. Any time we try a new venture there is the possibility of failure. When a business is unsuccessful and while one is cleaning...
Google and Amazon: Hard to Make a Sympathetic Case for Either
Read All About It About a week ago I was looking for an ebook on Amazon using the app on my mobile device. I was shocked to see this message: Amazon App Message So I did a little searching and found this CNET article:...
US FEDERAL DEFICIT AND POTENTIAL SOLUTION
For many years now I’ve witnessed the often huge fines imposed by one of the US’ governing agencies tasked with levying fines against corporations and other entities that break the law. There has to be an equitable solution to the US Federal Deficit that does...
ANOTHER REASON WHY WE MUST BE OUR OWN HEALTH ADVOCATE
There was a time when a family doctor really managed the care of an entire family. Today, patients are rushed in and out and at the time of scheduling, the appointment desk wants to know the nature of your need to see the doctor. Don’t think you can...
It’s Going to Be a LONG process! Gloves are OFF!
My nail tech, Renee Brockman, has done an excellent job of managing my expectations. She explained from the start that this was going to be a long, time-consuming process to conquer this bad habit and let my seriously damaged fingernails grow out. I am fully prepared...
FINDING GREAT DOCTORS FOR YOUR AGING PARENTS WHEN RELOCATING TO A NEW COMMUNITY
Loving Parents In addition to your search for the best retirement community for your parents – whether it be independent or assisted living – you may need to source new physicians for them. While these experiences for me were several years ago, this post...
Contacts, PDAs and Those With Whom We Can’t Let Go
Address books and Rollodexes- antiquated processes for keeping track of our contacts and other personal data. But, get this: I had to check my spelling on the name and found Rolodex is still in business! Check it out- their home page soothes “Bring Balance Back to...
A New Year – Solutions? Or At Least, A Refreshed Attitude
Do you know how when you get some time off, you plan to knock out some incomplete projects around your house or in your office, etc.? This unfinished business can also be called an Energy Suck. These are things you really need to do but put off over and over – the...
Gratitude Pays Off in Many Ways – Body, Mind, Spirit
Heart Full of Gratitude About 2-1/2 years after my dad passed, my mom came to live close to us in Kansas City. She had a great-grandson to spend time with! I helped decorate her new place in a retirement community and bought her a book by Barry Neil Kaufman...
Express Yourself or Visit care2sharenowcards at Etsy
Spring 2022 - Card Studio no longer on Etsy. Photo Credit to come I know a number of people who are exceptional communicators; people who can make others feel at ease with a glance, or feel understood with a nod. Then, there are people who have trouble communicating...
Welcome to the Wild World of 2020
Always is a good time to learn. From the “old world view” (where most of humanity lives) time is so fleeting and it moves faster and faster as we age. Seven months since my last post and the whole world has changed dramatically. As educated and enlightened...
Took a LONG Break after Rushing
I love this coaster. It’s called RUSHING ©Erin Smith Art and ©High Cotton Ink. Thank you Erin Smith! by Erin_Smith_Art_HighCottonInc2019 My sister Debra sent me this after she, another sister, & I were shopping in Naples, a couple of years ago. We each...
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day – October 13, 2018
Palliative Care: Because I Matter. And you do. We ALL matter. Each of us should be able to achieve all that these services offer, services and programs designed and intended to provide comfort during life-altering and life-threatening periods in our...
Restoring Our Health – A Spectacular Resource
Recently, armed with results of “diagnostic tests” whose validity and scientific basis I now question, I met with an Integrative Nutritionist and self-taught chef. I’d done quite a bit of research, looking for a person with whom I could relate, learn from, and...
Well Being Brewery – BRAVO!
Non-alcoholic Craft Beers Back in 2001, I was a freelance writer and became a “wellness consultant” representing a company whose products ranged from pure water to far infrared technology to magnets. Two fantastic things happened in my life from that experience: 1.) I...
Whole Health Pet Nutrition
As I'm learning more and more about human nutrition, I've decided enough parallels exist to find a common ground between whole food nutrition for my family - including our pet. We have just one now. They'd like to eat what's on the table but.. Our last menagerie...
Tomorrow’s Hospital May Not Look Like Any You’ve Known
An insightful (maybe prophetic?) WSJ article in the digital edition 2/25/18 called “The Future of Hospitals,” by Laura Landro, is a real eye-opener. It’s encouraging that leaders in various health systems recognize that the hospital model as we know it is fraught with...
Hippocrates – The Father of Modern Medicine
Hippocrates was quite the forward-thinker. This quote, attributed to him after his death, is the answer to so many of our ills: Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. How ironic that on average, a person studying in the U.S. to become a...