Make a four-hour commitment to volunteering

WE CAN DO SO MUCH good with our time. Even if you have only a small window of free time with competing responsibilities and passions, all that our program asks from volunteers is four hours a month. Volunteers are an integral part of the Long-Term-Care-Ombudsman Program.

Bust the aging myths

OUR BELIEFS ABOUT AGING have a huge impact on how we act and how we take care of ourselves. In fact, a person’s perceived health turns out to be one of the best predictors of his or her future health.

NOBODY'S PERFECT - What a (medical) waste

WHEN I WAS a little girl, I thought the invention of the facial tissue was one of the best advancements ever! It was much more sanitary to cover my cough or sneeze using a soft piece of a disposable tissue than to use cloth handkerchiefs, which had to be laundered and reused. Ick!

A WALK IN THE PARK - The Everglades before they were fixed

GEEZERS ARE NOTORIOUS for saying that everything was better back in the day. OK. We are often guilty of that, but some things really were better. You may have your own list of things that are just not what they used to be. After retirement, Shirley and I spent our winters in Florida.

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING—Our times will be good

“The times are bad! The times are troublesome!” This is what humans say. But we are our times. Let us live well and our times will be good. Such as we are, such are our times. +St. Augustine of Hippo   We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.

NOBODY'S PERFECT—What’s considered a disability?

“DISABILITY SHOULD BE as commonplace as a person who wears glasses.” I love that quote. I do not remember where I read it, but it represents that none of us is physically perfect.

A WALK IN THE PARK—Nothing but rocks

I WORKED WITH A FELLOW who had spent part of his career in Utah. Said he was really happy to be back in the Midwest where everything is green. “Utah is nothing but rocks,” he said. Yes, I thought, but that’s like saying a beach is nothing but sand or Giant Sequoias are nothing but trees.