Optimism

Though I strongly support the concept of gratefulness, I’m not much for delivering public speeches about it, even to close friends or family around the Thanksgiving table. Truth be told, I generally...

Every year, around Thanksgiving Day, I start off my holiday movies with “It’s a Wonderful Life.” In it, our main character George Bailey, due to a series of events, wishes he’d never been born....

I will admit that I have never seen “Lord of the Rings.” Yes, I know I am an oddity. Yet, I do know that the words were used by King Théoden for an ominous, foreboding warning of what was coming…  ...

I, maybe like you, take random pictures of what catches my eye with my phone. So much so, I have over 30,000 thousand pictures in the cloud. I am sure that by the time I take my last breath, I will be...

Who am I to be giving advice? I have no proficiency in PDPM, MDS, CQI, RUGs, ISNPs or any other intimidating or indecipherable acronym. No one is begging me for my thoughts on staffing or infection control....

I fancy myself a brave and intrepid hiker, and a couple weeks ago chose a particularly daunting trail that was rumored to lead to some of the best possible views of Mount Hood, the 11,249-foot peak that...

So, a good friend of mine is a preschool teacher. She was telling me about a craft she did with the kids. She got these water beads, which are small marble-like beads, and had the kids put them in water. ...

Trump wants masks on all nursing home workers, temperature checks for all, and separate COVID-19 units … COPD linked to greater odds of developing lung cancer … Nursing homes’ top strategies for...

Scientists may have finally confirmed the old saying, “happy wife, happy life.”

An optimistic mindset lowers the odds of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality, according to a new review.