My Two Favorite Books of 2021 by Jude Joseph Lovell It is hard to believe yet another year has come and gone. Seems like only just last week I was sitting in a similar place scribbling about my favorite books of 2020. One of those was called Love in the Time of Cholera, and I Read more
Odd How History Repeats Itself by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. Clearly, I’m not a history buff nor pretend to be. However, last night I watched a couple of history programs on PBS. All of which by the way, are incredibly interesting and well worth the view. The first show was The Roosevelts: A Film by Read more
The Whip and the Carrot By Angie Littlefield Many of us, when we reach “a certain age,” want to write about our family. We do it for several related reasons: we want to set things down before memories are lost, we want to hand down our family history to the next generation, or we want Read more
Never Too Old to Reinvent Ourselves by Christine Tailer I was a trial attorney in Cincinnati. The job fit my personality perfectly. I was always excited to meet new clients, listen to their stories, gather witnesses, and, in time, tell their stories to a jury. For twenty-two years I lived an incredibly rich urban life, Read more
Decision to Move by Donna L. Scrafano Looking back, I remember first the challenges, as that’s how my brain tends to operate. I recalled my then-90-year-old father became more frail and therefore more dependent on me. His frailty was at the core of some major decision making and vast changes that would occur for both Read more
Small Steps to Big Resolutions by Bernadette Sukley According to U.S. News & World Report, the failure rate for New Year’s resolutions is about 80 percent, and most of us lose our resolve by mid-February. There’s an adage that you can eat an elephant—by eating one spoonful at a time. This is true of resolutions. Read more
Time Stand Still by Jude Joseph Lovell On a warm night in September 1987, right around the start of my senior year of high school, a few friends and I piled into somebody’s car and cruised out to the infamous Route 22 in north-central New Jersey. Route 22 was this old highway running east to Read more
My New Normal by Donna Scrafano One of the many witty quotes from author and Christian motivational speaker Patsy Clairmont is “Normal is just a setting on your dryer.” She has also published a book with that title. Although I have not read the book, ever since I heard this quote quite a few years Read more
Finding Yourself in the Empty Nest by Christina Fain Undeniably, the infamous midlife crisis is not a myth, but we tend to associate this with balding men driving red convertibles. We don’t have an image of women navigating this time of life, not even a funny one! This transitional period affects women, specifically mothers, on Read more
Crisis Management Book Review by Jude Joseph Lovell Rumaan Alam, a Brooklyn-based writer of Bangladeshi-American descent, has written a third novel called Leave The World Behind that has generated a buzz for raising timely, provocative questions and for its page-turning fluidity. I’m leading with the good news. The bad news is the book is heavily Read more
