Archive for Personal Growth
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Get Caught Reading
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies; the man who never reads lives only one.” ... George R. R. Martin "Get Caught Reading" is a nationwide public service campaign launched by the Association o...
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Calendar of Events | MAY 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...
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Celebrating the people we are meant to be during Older Americans Month
... you can find yourself again at CASI. Come as you are and become who you were always meant to be. By Laura L. Kopp, MS CASI President/CEO David Bowie once said, “Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.” As I write this, I am one day ...
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Colorful and Edible
In Loving Memory ... The following is a repeat of an article that first appeared in the March 2009 edition of 50+Lifestyles. We present this encore in loving memory of the author, Shelli Tague, a former proofreader of 50+Lifestyles, who recently passed at the age of 98. She loved the many aspects o...
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Gearing Up for the 33rd Annual QC Senior Olympic Games May 18–June 1, 2024 www.qcsogo.org
By Rhonda Elsbury Board Member [caption id="attachment_14989" align="alignleft" width="225"] A medalist in the cycling event.[/caption] We are gearing up for the 33rd Annual QC Senior Olympic Games, and we’re excited to gather again, see friends, make new friends, award medals, and cheer ...
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Calendar of Events | APRIL 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...
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles. Chrysalis Birth The pupa believes in life, inner urge Deep within, it struggles in dark Dungeon chrysalis, fights blindly for Air and light, exerts all, so it can fly, Fly in beauty. Beauty flutters over Earth of its bir...
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Just Saying…
April Questions By Q.C. Jones Your erstwhile friend and literary pal QC Jones has been thinking a lot lately. Perhaps questioning life, or maybe questioning the art of asking questions. Ever since I was a pollywog of a person, I have been famous for asking questions. My parents were kind and lovin...
