Happy New Year!  Now that January is here and those presents are opened, I wonder how many will last?  Often those shiny new toys opened on Christmas morning end up in a closet or collecting dust on a shelf in a short time.  The newness wears off and then all we have is a pile of junk and a credit card bill.  Are there any good gifts that will actually last through the coming weeks, months, or years?    As I’ve gotten older it seems to me that experiences matter more than thi

Time flies when you’re having fun, and it travels at warp speed the older you get!  Wow, here we are, the end of another year in sight.  We are close to completing the first quarter of the 21 st  century.  It seems like only yesterday we were worried that all of the computers and ATM’s in the world were going to shut down when Y2K rolled around…but here we are, we survived.    As we age some of us don’t like birthdays.  I like my birthday, it’s in the summer and I’ve always s

November can be a tough month with the days getting shorter and the weather getting colder.  I’ve always wondered if “Thanksgiving” was added to the calendar because too many people were complaining about winter coming and someone finally said, “hey, be thankful, it isn’t that bad!” Let’s eat some turkey and stuffing and be fat and happy.      I’m often impressed when I visit our communities and see our residents and our staff in action.  We have some amazing people.  Most of

Have you ever been caught doing something you should not have been doing before?  I’m sure we all have.  Maybe you took a cookie from the...