Midlife’s A Trip

Young@Heart

Posted on 04. Mar, 2008 by Karen.

I started off today feeling not so young at heart. In fact I was feeling more down in the dumps after yesterday’s visit to the neurologist for an assessment of my mom’s declining dementia. But my day turned around after I stumbled on the inspirational story of Young@Heart.
Young@Heart is a chorus of seniors [...]

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A New Earth–Can It Start in Darfur?

Posted on 03. Mar, 2008 by Karen.

Tonight is the first session of the much publicized Oprah web-seminar on Eckhart Tolle’s book A NEW EARTH: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.  A friend of mine suggested that we sign up for the 10 week event.  I did and have started reading the book.
Although I find Eckhart Tolle a little difficult to read, he [...]

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The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors

Posted on 01. Mar, 2008 by Karen.

One of the most popular news articles in the last week was The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors by New York Times writer John Tierney. He profiles an interesting theory that people just don’t like to let go of their options in life.
To prove the theory, researchers had students at MIT take a test [...]

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