By Bonnie Hagen   A common misconception about older adults is that they must be depressed or anxious simply because they’ve gotten older. This is certainly not true of most seniors. Surveys report that most are happy and content in their lives. But it is true that older adults face…

By Louise Applebome   I previously wrote about some uncharacteristic health questions/problems I was experiencing last month.   Bottom line: My system was out of balance. I was not feeling like myself.    One possible, but not convincing, explanation was that I had post-COVID symptoms. The skepticism was partly due…

By Mary Fridley   Whenever I tell people I’m a developmentalist, they most often look at me with a polite but blank stare. I understand their confusion – after all, the word development is used in many different ways – so let me say what I don’t mean by development….

By Alice Herb   Recently, I discovered something truly amazing. My mind runs miles ahead of my body. Completely out of sync. I came to that conclusion when I realized that I was constantly frustrated because I was never able to do what I planned to do on a given…

Writer Dave Donelson left his successful business career in 1999 to become a full-time freelance writer. In 2020 he both completed a memoir of his life growing up (entitled Fathers: A Memoir) and began a daily journal where he posts his thoughts, observations, and insights each day. Titled “The Journal of…

By Louise Applebome (photography by Roger Winstead)   I’d been feeling a little logy lately. And my brain has been a bit foggy. Earlier in the summer, I could blame it on the beastly, depleting Dallas heat. But after nearly a month in Maine, and no significant reduction in my…