Archive for Personal Growth
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston We can wish on the new year, and we can write down what we want to get done in this time. We 50+ers and our cohorts want some things to take place in the years span. We can attempt to make it happen, can hope to shape the future, those futures that concern us. A pastor in Ne...
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Two New Businesses in the Hilltop Campus Village
Two new businesses have opened up in the Studio Suites on the third floor of the Priester Building, 601 Brady Street, in the Hilltop Campus Village. Both of these newcomers are geared towards personal well-being. Hypnotherapy – in Suite 301-C Sylvia has been practicing hypnotherapy since 2...
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ONE EASY DECISION ON “MAKE UP YOUR MIND DAY”
By Linda Clayton-Powell Social Security District Manager Davenport, Iowa On December 31, the nation celebrates National Make Up Your Mind Day. The timing is perfect to coincide with those pesky New Year’s resolutions. Some decisions are big and you might need time to plan before you make up ...
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Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Every December 24, millions of people are visited by a short, fat guy in a red suit. Where did he come from, why does he do it, and how does he accomplish this seemingly impossible task? My research reveals that the original St. Nicholas lived in southwestern Turkey in the 4th century. As the bishop...
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A Double-Take
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” - Pablo Picasso Sometimes we have to do a double-take, those occasions when something takes much longer to process intellectually than it may take fo...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Would it be fair to say to ourselves the first indication we had of the sort of poetry we now tend to know is from Psalms of the Old Testament of the Holy Bible? Or, was it from Christmas Carols, once standard fair and plenty of them in church and to some degree in schools, deca...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER – The Baby Boomer Reunions
By Eloise Graham The year was 1946. America had survived the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the Depression and dust storms of the ‘30s, World War II in the early ‘40s… but could it survive the Baby Boomers? I was one of those in the first wave of “the Boomers.” How many of you were? D...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston When did you attend your library book sale? Mine was in Coralville, where Rhoada and I live, a few months in the past. Wait! My last was in Lake Forest, Illinois in the middle of September. The occasion was a lot of Molleston birthdays together. Some by marriage, some just plain ...
