by Lynda | Feb 19, 2018 | Building Community, Democracy, Everyday Living, Healthy Choices, Human Rights, XtraDose
We Americans face two big issues at the moment: what to do about gun violence and what to do about Russia’s interference in our democracy. One originates close to home, the other in a far away land. Early in the 2016 election I read about former Trump campaign...
by Lynda | Dec 19, 2016 | Building Community, Everyday Living, Healthy Choices, Human Rights, Spirituality & Faith
One more trip around the sun. Tomorrow I celebrate Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year. I’ll light candles, drink hot chocolate, and play games around a blazing fire. Winter Solstice symbolizes a movement from darkness into light. We embrace the darkest...
by Lynda | Oct 22, 2016 | Aging, Building Community, Business In A Changing World, Ecology & Earthly Matters, Everyday Living, Healthy Choices, Human Rights, Life, Death & the Supernatural, Spirituality & Faith, XtraDose
I stand at the base of the Founder’s Tree, in awe, all 5 feet 8 inches of me. I’ve just returned from a visit to “the Redwoods” and call them by name as if I’m referring to life-long friends or my beloved family, and I suppose I am. My...
by Lynda | Sep 2, 2016 | Aging, Building Community, Everyday Living, Healthy Choices, Spirituality & Faith
Dallas, TX, S’s apartment, 1987 — We poured wine. We laughed. We cried. We hadn’t seen each other in five years. S’s apartment was not far from Chadbourne Street where in 1982 three of us shared a bungalow just off Inwood and Lovers’ Lane...
by Lynda | May 24, 2016 | Aging, Art, Literature & Film, Building Community, Business In A Changing World, Everyday Living, Healthy Choices, XtraDose
I’ve been away from my desk, on a journey of sorts — up the down staircase, it seems. One step forward, two steps back (or three steps back and down depending on the day). My journey began in late February on a flight to Vegas. But, what happened in Vegas...
by Elizabeth O'Brien | Apr 18, 2016 | Aging, Building Community, Everyday Living, Guest Writers, Healthy Choices
Rapprochement at BurgerFi By Elizabeth O’Brien, LPC-S We have a family tradition of gathering on Sundays at BurgerFi in South Austin. BurgerFi, a small and seemingly little-known chain, happens to make some of the best burgers in town: grass-fed, hormone-free, organic...
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