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When I started out on my walk yesterday, I saw a man further up the road, walking in the same direction as I was going. He was using a walking stick and going more...
I’m working on being more mindful — and part of that is finding contentment in simple, ordinary things. I’ve noticed a common theme in conversations with friends — a lot of people are at what I...
Several years ago I worked as a massage therapist in a Leadership Development Intensive program. Massage therapy — plus business and individual counseling along with health and meditative techniques — was offered to...
I was amused to discover that a lot of people text each other while they’re in different rooms of the same house and I got to thinking about the pros and cons of the...
For days I’d been craving a certain sandwich and decided to give in so I checked the restaurant’s menu online just to be sure, and headed down there. I was seated at a booth...
My email spam folder practically fills up overnight with pitches for ways to drop sizes or lose pounds. I guess it’s the time of year when people make resolutions about health but good gravy,...
I was in a restaurant not long ago, a fairly small place with only three tables occupied. A man who appeared to be close to seventy was sitting at one of them and talking...
This time of year, I crave slow food — it’s one of my favorite things about wintertime. Food that cooks for hours in the oven, in a crock pot or on a stove top...
I have had the same pet sitter for over fifteen years — she’s one of the few other people I know who makes a regular habit of anthropomorphizing animals and we appreciate one another....
I was out walking with my iPod in shuffle mode yesterday morning and when the next song started with “my brain is cloudy and my soul is upside down”, it stopped me in my...