Archive for Personal Growth

  • Calendar of Events | OCTOBER 2024 Calendar of Events | OCTOBER 2024

    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...

  • Age Is but a Number Age Is but a Number

    By Mary Schricker Gemberling As Mary enjoys some well-deserved time away, please enjoy an encore appearance of this column from October 2019. “Age is an issue of mind over matter; if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”                                           … Ma...

  • Your Advocacy Connection Your Advocacy Connection

    We Solve Long-Term Care Problems It Takes a Village to Support a Senior By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate Aging can be a challenge for all of us.  There are so many major decisions When do I start taking money from your retirement funds? Is it time to downsize? ...

  • A Pause for Poetry A Pause for Poetry

    By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles.   Inner Pendulum Swings now the inner pendulum, To and fro the inner sanctum. Our psyche rises and descends, Oscillates over ephemeral ends. Across this defining inner arc, Conscience defies the dark, And to each terrestrial birt...

  • Celebrating CASI During National Senior Center Month Celebrating CASI During National Senior Center Month

    CASI Membership has a Lot of Perks! By Sue Fleischman Rector CASI Director of Development September is National Senior Center Month. We invite you to help us celebrate CASI, our communities’ only comprehensive nationally accredited senior center. CASI offers an amazing array of programs and a...

  • No Greater Gift No Greater Gift

    By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Grandparents are voices of the past and the door to the future. They provide us with thewisdom for a lifetime of experience that should never be undervalued.” With all the back to school ads, I am reminded of the time when I was still teaching and raising my so...

  • A Pause for Poetry A Pause for Poetry

    By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles.       Hours of Flowers Birth is our entrée into the finite, And our portal too to the infinite. Our lives are like evanescent flowers, That germinate, sprout, grow a few hours. We trope existentially to the light, T...

  • Calendar of Events | AUGUST 2024 Calendar of Events | AUGUST 2024

    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...