Changing Course with Courage

Changing Course with Courage

Perhaps everyone reaches a point in their life when they have to go one of two ways, and the results will be nothing short of life-changing.  What do you do?  Take the easy, sure path, or venture out into the unknown?  At 37, John Morse decided to...
Easy Tips for Surviving Quarantine with Kids

Easy Tips for Surviving Quarantine with Kids

I don’t know about you, but when the helpful “Surviving Quarantine” tips I read make me feel like quarantine is one more way I’m failing my children, they are far from helpful. Is this one-woman shop really supposed to replace school, music lessons, dance rehearsals...
10 Benefits of a Pandemic

10 Benefits of a Pandemic

In a recent conversation with my daughter, I postulated that there might be benefits to this virus, Covid-19.  She nearly whispered, “I do not dare speak those words—but I think I agree.”  I am going to speak those words, friends.  And I preface the following by...
Aging in America

Aging in America

Aging Americans have an experience that is unique to America; other countries do not treat their elders like we do in America. Our culture of glorified youth does not value our elders. No wonder, then, that our senior population does not feel empowered to contribute...
Callan Kreidel, Beautiful Survivor!

Callan Kreidel, Beautiful Survivor!

Three weeks before graduating college, Callan was diagnosed with a form of lymphoma, requiring six months of brutal chemotherapy.  At twenty-three, she is a writer, artist, and tough-as-nails survivor.  Hear what kept her going, and why she proclaims one...