Archive for Personal Growth

  • Calendar of Events | JUNE 2025 Calendar of Events | JUNE 2025

    If you have an upcoming event that you would like published, please mail info to: 50+Lifestyles, P. O. Box 2125, Davenport, IA, 52809  Attn: Eloise or email: publisher@50pluslife.com Attn: Eloise. Please submit by the 10th of the month prior to the month you want activity listed. Support Group...

  • June – Roses and Pearls June – Roses and Pearls

    By Eloise Graham Editor-in-Chief The flower for June is the rose. The rose and the shrub are of the Rosa genus. Their colors range from deep red to the palest of pink, orange hues to yellows to white. A lavender rose has even been cultivated. Early civilizations of temperate zones were believed t...

  • PUBLISHER’S CORNER PUBLISHER’S CORNER

    June Is Fabulous with a Capital “F” By Eloise Graham F is for Family Reunions. They are prevalent in June. Many families plan a family reunion on Memorial Day Weekend. Often, this will extend over into the first part of June. School is out and perhaps the organized summer activities have not y...

  • A Pause for Poetry A Pause for Poetry

    By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles.       Fragrances Fragrances ride the breeze, Jasmine airily vogues a tease, And just for you pure patchouli, Lavender and lily-of-the valley! Fragrances waft through the air, Sending scents to you so very fair! Inha...

  • Mother’s Wise Words Mother’s Wise Words

    By Mary Schricker Gemberling “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”                                 ... Rudyard Kipling My mom and dad were married 50+ years and enjoyed a wonderful retirement in my childhood home in Missouri and their condo in Florida....

  • Calendar of Events | MAY 2025 Calendar of Events | MAY 2025

    If you have an upcoming event that you would like published, please mail info to: 50+Lifestyles, P. O. Box 2125, Davenport, IA, 52809  Attn: Eloise or email: publisher@50pluslife.com Attn: Eloise. Please submit by the 10th of the month prior to the month you want activity listed. Support Grou...

  • A Pause for Poetry A Pause for Poetry

    By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles.       Tears and Words Emotions more than words express, They flow under high duress, A time of loss into the void, Mere words we can only avoid. Deep within no words muster, Words only lose their luster. So we let o...

  • Your Advocacy Connection Your Advocacy Connection

    We Solve Long-Term Care Problems Happy Spring By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate Spring is here. When I was growing up we celebrated May Day by making little craft paper baskets and filling them with wild flowers and delivering them to neighbors. It was a great excu...