50+ Lifestyles

Archive for Personal Growth

• In and Out of the Quad-Cities

  Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall Gail and Toni’s Retreat The hustle and bustle of daily life, the constant drone of a TV, quick trips to the store, a cell phone call from the doctor’s office, running the dry cleaning down to Burke’s – the joys of living the Good Life. Whether ...

• PUBLISHER’S CORNER: Joining the 50+ Club

  By Mike Mickle I have arrived! I am now officially part of the 50+ club. I arrived in March, and my friends were sure to let everyone know. A trio of trouble-makers entered my yard in the dark of night, placing signs that said, “Happy 50th Birthday, Mike” EVERYWHERE. They placed other de...

• Max’s Musings

  By Max Molleston In May, many new ideas emerge as Spring takes hold. April showers bring May flowers, a statement on nature we recall and repeat, seasonally. Nature blossoms through May, ending just in time for Memorial Day, or "decoration day" as some of us call visits to our forbearers’ grave...

• We can learn a lot from a tree

  By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Amid the monuments and the towering mature trees along a pleasant knoll at Oakdale Memorial Gardens, I had the privilege to share a few words with the family at a recent graveside service. The setting was beautiful. Nearby, an age-old...

• In and Out of the Quad-Cities

  Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall On the Road Again Since Biblical Times, road trips have held significance. Father Abraham saw Ur in the rear view way back in Genesis. Saul had a revelation on the road to Damascus. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby took Dorothy Lamar on seven road trips in t...

• Child of my Child

  By Mary Schricker Gemberling “All parents know that the love we experience prior to parenthood holds a small flame to the force and the power of the love that sweeps into your soul at the birth of your own child. Believe it or not, the birth of your grandchild carries a stronger, more potent l...

• Scratch Procrastination Off Your List

  By Curt Ford Nash Nash Bean & Ford Procrastination is … ”… the thief of time.” “…the art of keeping up with yesterday.” “… the ability to put off till tomorrow what you should have done yesterday.” The fact that we have a host of quotes on procrastination is ...

• The Privileged Few

  By Mary Schricker Gemberling The conclusion of a tale of Mary’s travels to South Africa and Zimbabwe Johannesburg, a city of more than five million people living in a land area of 250 square miles, is a dichotomy of wealth and poverty with its gold, silver and diamond mines in contrast to a...