Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, 67, clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather’s Blessings: “I have encountered two of women’s greatest fears: I’ve been single all my life, and I’ve had Crohn’s disease [a chronic inflammatory bowel disease] for the past 51 years.… Read the rest
Learn now to pay attention and feel like you’re sharp as a tack, or at least not, as they say, the dullest tool in the shed.
Woman with Satellites
In a world that drives us crazy with all that information that comes at us from everywhere, it’s so easy to feel like you’re losing your mind.… Read the rest
The Midlife Transition often triggers thoughts about getting older and getting on in life. Perhaps a more pertinent thought to ponder should be: “What does it mean to age successfully? According to some experts, it’s not enough to just tick off the birthdays.… Read the rest
The Main Thing
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. -Anonymous
The rascal Nasrudin stood on the bow of a boat next to a pompous intellectual who began to quiz him on his education. “Have you ever studied astronomy?”… Read the rest
‘Tis the Set of the Sail — or — One Ship Sails East
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1916
But to every mind there openeth,
A way, and way, and away,
A high soul climbs the highway,
And the low soul gropes the low,
And in between on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.… Read the rest