Just what are your rights in the United States? That depends on where you live. What can be criminal behavior in one place can be perfectly legal in another. Of course it goes both ways. Should...
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Chinese Luey — Part 4
Just Because Your Name is Chinese Luey Don’t Mean You Ain’t Norwegian. Darkness and light breed with one another, one feeding off the other and dreaming only of complete surrender from...
Defending Millennials — Part 2
Maybe we Boomers shouldn’t throw stones. In Part 1 we covered Millennials’ supposed shortcomings. But what about their strengths? I mentioned that a number of researchers report that...
The Little People Shuttle
Give your kids the mobility they deserve, and you won’t even have to leave work. You were a nerd in high school. No one liked you. You spent your time in dark rooms looking at computer screens...
Podcast: Moving Beyond Western Medicine
The facts about alternative medical techniques. Anyone who’s been to a doctor lately knows that the costs for conventional western medical care are out of control. As a result, so-called...
Emotional Support
Men and women can differ on what it means and how to provide it. Anyone who’s been married for a few weeks knows that it’s a complicated affair. There are lots of rough patches, reasons...
Chinese Luey — Part 3
Just Because Your Name is Chinese Luey Don’t Mean You Ain’t Norwegian. Luey checked into the Holiday Inn on the corner near the Chinese Restaurant and across from the back gate to the...
How are you connected to your partner?
Attachment styles can determine the path of your relationship. We bring lots of personal baggage to our relationships. This is the stuff we’ve learned from childhood and have stored inside our...
Podcast: Athletes and Their Money
How they’re changing the world outside of the arena. It used to be that sports fans would support their team, regardless of who was playing. The individual athlete, although loved by fans, was...
Eco-Tourism: Think Yourself Green
Traveling well while saving the planet. I love the name “eco-tourism”. What it actually means is that you have to fly and/or drive, burning a few thousand dollars of fossil fuel, sleep in the most...
Chinese Luey — Part 1
Just Because Your Name is Chinese Luey Don’t Mean You Ain’t Norwegian. Chinese Luey lived over by the train yards in the middle of the area they used to call skid row. Now it was...
Mentoring
Help yourself while helping others. There’s a lot of talent out there wasting away. Those of us who have left the workforce take with us many years of experience in our fields. And we have...
Driving the Rockies
A mix of national parks, the wild west, and artsy towns. Sometimes it’s nice to get out in nature. Not all the time, mind you — I don’t have quite the appreciation for natural...
Challenges in Portrait Painting
Robin Wellner – Experimenting with colors and brushstrokes Robin Wellner was born in Morristown, NJ in 1952. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and continued her...
Irrational Beliefs and Conflicts
What Psychologist Albert Ellis says about the underlying causes of marital problems. There are countless ways couples run into conflicts. Some problems linger on and we can’t figure out a...
Wanna look like a Million Bucks?
Well, you’ll actually need a little more…$1,089,679 to be precise. But you can be proud, because there’s only 3 like it in the world! Gentlemen’s suits as we know them today...
The Podcast Explosion
Wonder what ever happened to AM radio? It’s hiding in a podcast near you. By Bill Wood A podcast is a digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device...
Aging with Parkinson’s Disease
Using dance to help those afflicted to reconnect with others. by Leslie Eckford If you or someone you know has Parkinson’s Disease (PD), you know the negative impact it has on the physical, cognitive...
Wineries…Italian Style
Its about wine, for sure, but it’s Italy, so its also about food and talk. A visit to an American winery can be enjoyable, but it usually doesn’t last very long. You stand at a...
Volunteer to Yourself
Take time out for you…to improve the quality of your life. Most times, when we think of being in service or volunteering, we associate that with helping someone else…of giving of ourselves to a...
