Archive for Personal Growth

  • June 2017 Calendar of Events June 2017 Calendar of Events

    Support Groups and Informational Seminars Quad Cities Alzheimer’s Association – Are you or someone you know a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s? Free educational classes are being offered for people with dementia, their families, and those who professionally serve them. Get support from ...

  • RSVP | Lead with Experience RSVP | Lead with Experience

    By Bill Sedlacek Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Eastern Iowa and Western Illnois Phyllis Kenney ~ Leading the Way from Her Own Home “I’ve met many wonderfully unique RSVP members since Dave Layton first asked me to tell their stories here. Phyllis Kenney, this month’s spotlighte...

  • Benefits of Prayer Benefits of Prayer

    By Karen McCoy Marketing Consultant Ridgecrest Village Over half of Americans believe that prayer is an important part of daily life. They say that even some atheists and religiously unaffiliated individuals admit that they sometimes pray. People have probably been praying for as long as we ha...

  • Portugal and Spain Portugal and Spain

    By Mary Schricker Gemberling Picasso, Cork, a Royal Palace, Burro Taxis, Flamenco dancing, Tapas, a famous Rock and a lot of Bull sum up the highlights of our recent trip to Portugal and Spain. Pablo Picasso is probably the most important figure of the 20th century. Before the age of 50, the Spani...

  • Ask the Audiologist Ask the Audiologist

    By Ellen Verlo, M.A., CCC-A Audiology Consultants, P.C. Hearing Loss and Emotions You finally did it!  You got a hearing test. You have permanent hearing loss. Your family has been nagging you for a while that you don’t hear well. “Get a hearing aid,” they say.  YOU feel you can hear ok...

  • Meet Rita Vargas,  Honorary Survivor Chair for Race for the Cure Meet Rita Vargas, Honorary Survivor Chair for Race for the Cure

    By Christina McNamara-Schmidt Komen Quad Cities/Marketing and Fundraising Specialist Rita Vargas knows the statistic: one out of every eight women will get breast cancer over a lifetime. “I told my girlfriends and my sister that I would rather it be me than them. I knew I’d be OK,” said Var...

  • May 2017 Calendar of Events May 2017 Calendar of Events

    Support Groups and Informational Seminars Quad Cities Alzheimer’s Association – Are you or someone you know a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s? Free educational classes are being offered for people with dementia, their families, and those who professionally serve them. Get support from ...

  • Max’s Musings Max’s Musings

    By Max Molleston Over centuries and decades, poetry enthusiasm has come and gone. Revivals depend on educated readers who recognize a strong poem for their (and its) reasons and  give a poet and their poems credence, a confidence that spreads from person to person, in poetry circles. Not long ago...