We all probably have some form of a to do list. I have an app on my phone so that I can be sure to get everything done. I’ve developed so many sub-lists to the main list that it’s probably impossible to get everything done that I have written there, but I sure would like […]
We’ve all known someone like Debbie Downer of Saturday Night Live. She’s the person you walk the other way from when she starts walking toward you. Everything about her is negative. When she wants to tell you a story, it’s always sad. I can recall a time when I was Debbie Downer. It seemed like […]
Often when dealing with grief people just don’t know what to do. Often, they sit alone and ruminate, not motivated to reach out to anyone or do anything. That can become lonely fast. I watched movies, but even that didn’t help. My mind would drift to my loved one, then that cycle of tears started […]
Walter Cronkite and Jonathan Ward created the Great Books television series in 1993. On each episode, they chose a significant book and told the historic and literary significance of the book in a one-hour episode. Narrated by Donald Sutherland, they included interviews with historians and scholars, and they had actors create scenes from the book […]
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was credited with the concept of “the only thing certain is change,” so this concept seems to have been around forever. I was in high school in 1965 when the Byrds song Turn, Turn, Turn came out, and it helped me through some tough times. I had some of the normal […]
Do you ever have a morning when it’s hard to get out of bed? You think about all the things you need to do and maybe feel a bit guilty about not getting started. Or maybe you were planning to fix dinner and didn’t get around to it, so another frozen dinner for you. Procrastination […]
When anyone asks me what the most important thing to do while grieving is, I always respond “Self-care.” Generally, taking good care of ourselves while we are focused on the barrage of things that hit us during grief is the last thing we have on our minds. And if we do think of it, excuses […]
All of us experience being blindsided in some way, some more than others. Someone may call with bad news. You may trip on a crack in the sidewalk. Maybe your alarm didn’t go off, or you forgot about an important appointment. When this happens, you may feel lousy and even shed some tears of frustration. […]
August was Make a Will month. If you don’t already have a Will, this is a perfect time to make one. If you do have a Will, now is a good time to check it and see if it needs any updates. And be sure that who you have chosen as an executor knows where […]
Grief affects our perspective. I have a beautiful view from the lanai at the back of my house. I looked across the island of Maui to the West Maui Mountains crowned by pure white clouds. I looked at the valley that bisects the island. I gazed at my glorious garden of tropical plants and bananas. […]
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