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I thought it might be appropriate to repeat this. Someone near and dear to me graduated as an RN today. I proudly attended her graduation. It is called a pinning for nurses, but it still a graduation ceremony with all the elements expected, including the keynote address. This is the graduation season, and in high schools and colleges across the land there are graduation ceremonies...
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya, oh Lord, kumbaya. 100 bottles of beer on the wall. 100 bottles of beer. Take one down, pass it around, 99 bottles of beer on the wall. 99 bottles of beer on the wall…….. Ah, those tunes we sang around the campfire. As the school year winds down, parents prepare to gleefully embrace the next season, sending their children to summer camp. Yipee! Time...
ALICE HORNBAKER “Life After 50” column ON AIR wmkvfm.org and WMKVFM. 89.3 FM/Cincinnati 5-14-12 Hello again. This is Alice Hornbaker for wmkv 89.3 FM and wmkvfm.org streaming around the world in the Internet Mondays and Thursdays at 2:20 p.m. and Fridays at 8:50 a.m. and as a blog on growingbolder.com under blogs/life after 50/ajhornbaker and on Twitter, Facebook and...
In memory of Mom on this Mother’s Day. As I said at the start of the entry about my dad, I wrote the following less for others, though they may enjoy it, as I did for my own sake and for my son. Family is important. Mom was born some fifty miles from Budapest, Hungary in 1912 and was baptized Yolan. She was the first born of my maternal grandparents, Barbara and Joseph....
Best anxiety treatment available these days is generic medicines which can be used by any one for reducing anxiety. People have started taking pills for sleep to overcome the sleeplessness and their psychological problems related to their schedules and other type of anti depression. Anxiety may be cause by many factors like emotional imbalance, workload, and other problems in near...
Thank you, President Obama, for endorsing same-sex marriage this past week. You unleashed the souls of many, allowing them to love freely. Don announced to me, “I’m getting a divorce.” Don worked for the printing company that printed the bank’s employee newsletter, which I was editor of. In addition to our serious professional relationship we had a very fun, casual friendship....
On May 12th, 2012 I will be presented on Puerto Rican Panorama with host Dr. Diego Castellanos. This will air on ABC Channel 6 in Philadelphia Pa.
The Center for Productive Longevity (CPL), which serves as the bridge between people 55 and older and the opportunities that enable them to continue in productive activities, today described “The 3 Important Ways to Defuse the Ticking Time Bomb of our Aging Workforce”. With 77 million people in the United States 55 and older, we are at a tipping point: we can either watch them sit on...
Today I went to Wal-Mart. A man with an equally long list of “Things To Buy” stopped me. “Excuse me, miss, can you tell me what these are?” he asked, pointing to the words on his list “knee-high or trouser socks.” He explained that his wife had asked him to buy some for her. I was quite taken by his steadfastness to find exactly what she wanted. It would have been...
The unexpected. It’s what happens when you have everything planned out perfectly. And when the rollercoaster gets going, you just have to let life take flight.My daughter’s preparation for final exams at school is giving me flashbacks of how true this is. Flashback #1: When my daughter was in kindergarten, the students were studying the metamorphosis of caterpillars. They had a...