Archive for Personal Growth
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Enjoying Life
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “The morning light shimmered through the trees and gave the lake an otherworldly hue. Everything in summer Michigan seemed to have a soft shimmer to it, as though God had hung gauze over the sky and softly scattered glitter on all His creations.”........Viola Sh...
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Your Advocacy Connection
By Jamie Long, Chief Patient Advocate GolderCare Solutions, Unlimited, LLC Sometimes Your Only Choice is the Lesser of Evils You’ve been there before. We’ve all had to face it from time to time in life, particularly so in caregiving. It’s a classic situation. You suddenly realize there i...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Kari Smith Remember to Step Back and Enjoy the Moment On Thursday, August 12th, Iowa had the opportunity to host a major league baseball game for the first time ever because of a movie that was filmed in Dyersville, Iowa in 1989. Field of Dreams is a great baseball movie, probably one of the ...
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Who are you Calling Old?
By Anne Coffman Marketing Director at Ridgecrest Village When I was younger and living on a farm, helping with fieldwork and livestock, and raising three young sons, I was always exhausted. There were many nights I barely had enough energy to eat before I would crawl into bed. My theme song was Ga...
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Your Advocacy
By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Are You In Over Your Head? Fred was recently widowed. His wife of 50 years did all the cooking, cleaning and bill paying. As a deacon in his church, you started bringing him casseroles a couple times a week. He asks if you could drive him to a doctor ...
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles. Iowa’s Edible Roads In Iowa we drive roads paved in Corn. As bumper harvests over- Flowed our silos and asphalt ran Low, we opted to pave in corn. On Our roads you need not pack a lunch. Just decamp your vehicl...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Eloise Graham You are Free to Choose... but ... Yes, we are free to choose anything we want, but we are not free from the consequences. There are always consequences! Our society seems to have forgotten that one must be responsible for one’s actions and act accordingly. Think about the cho...
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CASI’s Jane’s Place Adult Day Services Seeks Volunteers
By Crystal Hughes Jane’s Place Program Administrator Volunteers are important partners with our staff at CASI’s Jane’s Place Adult Day Services. The generosity of volunteers, giving their time and talents to community-based services like Jane’s Place, helps to ensure that we are able to fu...
