I’ve never met Janice Mason Steeves, but she’s making a big impact on how I’m choosing to live life. She’s a teacher at Cullowhee Arts, where I’ve studied multiple times. She’s also close friends within a shared network of artists. Janice’s impressive body of work is “concerned with using light and colour in a way that offers space for reflection […]
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The recent government shutdown brought up harsh memories for me. I recalled sadly how I never caught up economically or emotionally early in my teaching career after spending just one week picketing for better pay and smaller class sizes. In New York at that time, public service workers were fined two days pay for each day on strike. That memory […]
“Letting go” is a phrase that can be loaded with emotional baggage. Most if not all the young adults I know want their parents to start letting go of the reins. But once that wish comes true, we begin discovering the truth: that letting go is never as easy as it sounds. Beyond the middle age years of building and […]
Organizing January is the perfect time to make new year’s resolutions and to organize yourself for filing 2018 income tax returns. Making new year’s resolutions is easy, mainly because we make and break the same ones every year. However, in 2018 there was a major tax revision act. That leaves many of us wondering whether to itemize deductions as we’ve […]
We’re not doing heaps of holiday spending, nor have we been traveling during November and December. And yet, we’ve been the target of not one, but two holiday fraud attempts. The need for holiday fraud awareness is certainly not restricted to those over 65. However, the grey hair of wisdom hasn’t made us any less vulnerable. Monday morning we got […]
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder that causes people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year to suffer from depression at the same time each year, usually in winter. Here are the symptoms we’re all subject to: Having low energy (the “blahs”) Hypersomnia (wanting to sleep more than usual) Overeating (compensation, boredom) Weight gain (yep, the dreaded […]