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Dearest -
MAGIC! MYSTERY! MAYHEM! A MISSING BRACELET! A WAYWARD CLOWN! A PROMINENT DOCTOR!
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Jane -
A three-part adventure involving a grandfather, a grandson, an ex-con, an obese couple, and Mary Corrigan, a grieving woman who lost a child.
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Max Fitness-
If YOU have diabetes, heart disease, COPD...if YOU want to be in charge of your life...this book is for YOU.
Successful Aging -
A journal series on
Successful Aging.
To all who visit these pages with a desire to face the aging journey with laughter, love, peace, tranquility - Godspeed.
One Step -
When a close friend lost her vibrant, talented daughter to cancer, she called to give me the news. We had had many phone conversations in the months prior to this lovely young woman’s passing. When death came we wept. And when the fog of unfathomable loss lifted enough for her to think, my friend said something that made me tremble with understanding. “On the other side of a second my life is completely different.”
Waking to Simplicity -
Being in the company of the old woman was akin to entering a state of relaxation. She exhibited the possibility of being able to be at peace, from the inside out, with one’s place in the world. She replaced the bombardment of life with a tranquility that took a person deep into themselves. How I longed to find in myself her simple beauty.
Aging in an Unfit World
A day came when my ambition for jogging vanished, a time when I knew that extreme exercise had been a transport away from many things in my life. And with all of my running I hadn’t run into any significant personal development. So I started to walk – up on the bluff where pines were so thick in spots the sky disappeared, down to the sea where gulls nestled in grains of sun-baked sand. And I experienced a new kind of vigor. I felt mind and body healthy. I felt at peace. I began to age fit wisely.
When I was helping my father sort through Mother’s things I found the black, velvet
pouch. I slid the drawstring open and let the bracelet with one single charm of seven
stones slip onto the bed. I laid the charm across the palm of my hand, fingering
each stone – diamond, emerald, amethyst, ruby, emerald, sapphire, topaz – remembering
my mother explaining how they spelled dearest, remembering that Mother had never
told me the story of the bracelet. I decided to create a story for my mother’s bracelet.
And in this fruitful second half of life I wrote my first novel DEAREST.
There is
art alive in aging.
The Art of Aging
The Art of Aging
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PETS
Growing Spiritually
in the Company
of Cats and Dogs
“Whatever it is, whatever the problems, I’ll take it,” I surrendered to the cat shelter volunteer. With a quizzical gaze she queried, “Don’t you even want to take a look? Don’t you want to see the others in the litter?” The paw lifted from the back of my shoulder as the volunteer reached behind me and plucked the creature from the cage. In seconds my palms cradled a warm ball of solid gray fur. Two emerald orbs stared from the fluff, their silent assuredness penetrating with the serenity of a right decision. The kitten and I headed for the door.
Like us humans, each cat and dog is a unique character. But there is a sameness that links living beings. We all respond to and deserve love and respect. In truth, we are critters all.
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