While I’ve always been a Positive PollyAnna, lately I’ve found an Attitude Adjustment has been necessary. Today is not one of those days. Even without the aid of Rose, a favorite new friend, I’m filled with gratitude and excitement for my current situation. I’m blessed to live in a sunny, tropical world where I can take walks and burn calories swatting at the mosquitos, gnats and no-seeums while side-stepping around the snakes and poison toads who also love this sunny…
First, I want to say I am a strong supporter of the CDC guidelines for isolation, social distancing, quarantines, masks, gloves, and uber hand washing. While I’m making myself crazy with home projects, home cooking and Hallmark movies – even those with a Christmas theme, I’m comfortable with takeout from favorite restaurants and online shopping. I’m grateful that places such as grocery stores, pharmacies, hardware stores, gas stations, banks and liquor stores qualify as “Essential Services.” But then I have…
Bob Dylan knew it in 1964, and it’s still true 56 years later. Life as we lived it December 31, 2019, has dramatically changed forever. For good and for less than good. Priorities have changed. Friends and family are more important than ever. Or, at least we recognize the importance of those we love and turn to for support, for laughs, for connection. Face Time helps but it will never replace the love felt when holding that new grandbaby in…
Why am I having such a hard time breathing? Not the Corona Breathing issue – the Zen Breathing. It’s hard hitting the Pause button. I closed my public relations agency exactly three years ago today – 3/31/17 – so I should be adjusted to a relaxed Rhythm of Life. No deadlines. No meetings. No client demands. No staff issues. No crisis. Well, that’s no client crisis – just a global crisis that has now impacted us all. Now, forced to…
The Corona Virus has given us a lot of unstructured, unplanned time. I’m focusing on filling the week with activities and forgotten projects.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been in the blogosphere. I started 58 and Holding back in 2016. Four years later I’ve closed my company and retired, created a new life in sunny Florida, cruised through the Norwegian Fjords, New Zealand and Australia, visited family in Sweden, broke a wrist playing Pickleball, discarded my gallbladder and am now discovering the universe of “Shelter in Place,” a difficult concept for a gal with itchy feet. Life as we knew it will never…
We may never know the truth of Brett Kavanaugh as a teenage boy. However, the Kavanaugh hearings have created a turning point in history empowering women not only to say “No,” but to report the sexual assailants who refused to acknowledge “No.” Families are having open discussions with young daughters reinforcing the rule of “No” and the importance of reporting sexual assault regardless of the situation or the assailant. What I haven’t heard yet are the critical family discussions with…