Once along time ago in my graduate school days I was in shape. Afterwards, my life slowed down and the pounds crept on. Now 30 years later, I am trying to get back into shape. I have a morning routine consisting of working out on my bike one day alternating Read more…
I have been sheltering-in-place since March and put on the bulge. My doctors and my friends have been after me urging me to start exercising. I was resistant to their advice. I was suffering from severe couch potato. Then I went into my primary and saw for my own two Read more…
Hope is the capacity to wait for some expectant event or person. It is the great motivating force in life. Hope comes from deep within our heart and pumps blood to our brain that constructs all manner of plans and schemes to reach our hopes. In this hope differs from Read more…
I saw Racheal, my nurse practitioner this morning. She changed the bandage and packing to my wound. She said the wound has really improved since last weak, and told me to come back in two weeks. I am glad that my wound is healing and that I will soon be Read more…
I keeping looking back to my junior high school teacher saying we were the best and the brightest and we would change the world. I am doing good to do my chores and work through my to do list. I don’t see how I can possibly change the world. I Read more…
For work, I wrote an article on trust and self-advocacy. A staffer from the Department of Developmental Disabilities read it and was greatly impressed. She envisions a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation on trust and how it relates to major life areas–family and friends, school, work, intimate relationships, the delivery of Read more…
At work, I write articles for four newsletters. Two articles will be coming out next month. Doors of opportunity are opening up for me. I have shared one article with a few people and they have said “great article.” This is great for the ego. I find it especially rewarding Read more…
It seems like only yesterday, I was in Junior High, and I can remember the teacher telling the class that we were the best and the brightest. We would grow up and go on to change the world. Of course I believed him hook line and sinker. America has changed Read more…
I went into work today. I got caught up on my emails. I made some phone calls, and did some data entry, but my energy and stamina just wasn’t there. After I edited an article I wrote, I had lunch, and went home. I am trying to tell myself, my Read more…