The Bennies of CBD By Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. CBD has been around since the early 1900’s when chemist Roger Adams isolated cannabidiol compound while researching prophylactics to potential gas attacks during the trench warfare in Europe. Working at the National Research Council in Washington DC a few decades later, Adams presented a paper to Read more
Peck of Dirt by Lynn Campbell My grandma used to say, “You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die. As a child, I reasoned that it would be best to eat the dirt slowly, and then you would live longer. I was never a germaphobe before the COVID-19 pandemic. Sure, I washed Read more
Emotional Spring Cleaning by Donna Scrafano Spring is usually the season when we clean out our brick-and-mortar homes and closets for the coming year. But Spring is also a good time to clean out any toxic energy that may have infiltrated our lives. Such toxic energy may come in the forms of everyday stressors, pending Read more
A Little Birdie Told Me by Angie Littlefield I have known a number of Silver Sagers, particularly ones of retirement age, who have taken up birdwatching as a way to get outside more. In winter of course, this isn’t as easy, especially if, like me, you live in a snowy climate. But you can always Read more
The Other “F” Word by Donna Scrafano I hope the title of this article didn’t get anyone’s bottoms in a bunch. This title flew out of my mouth while meeting with a client, approximately twenty years ago. The client was sharing her stories about abuse suffered by her family of origin. The client processed her Read more
Vaxxed Up & On the Road Again by Peter Kravitz For the first time in 403 days, I was able to travel. Fully vaccinated, I flew to Colorado in late March. I felt safe thanks to the miraculous Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but I nonetheless took the usual precautions on the Southwest Airlines flight—I wore a mask Read more
Harlander: Never Forget by Angie Littlefield As Silver Sagers, we have come to know multiple generations of people in our lives—those who preceded us, ourselves, and those who have followed us. And it is especially crucial to understand what came before us, so that we can inform our children and grandchildren about the realities of Read more
Cherry Garcia Daydreaming by Kathleen M. Schurman Mucking horse stalls is an adventure in random and rambling thoughts, and with a twenty-six-stall barn to clean every morning, I have plenty of repetitive, mind-numbing shoveling to take me on imaginary adventures throughout the multiverses. Unfortunately, that’s not what usually happens. My thoughts are typically more mundane Read more
Rescue by A. Laura Francis Any shrink worth their salt would probably have a field day if their patient told them that they would be travelling halfway across the country to fetch their twenty-year-old son from university with their mother-in-law driving shotgun. But when COVID numbers began to creep up in March of last year Read more
The Perfect Pandemic Wedding by Donna Scrafano Two years before the pandemic, my granddaughter, Mariah, and her fiancé, Chris, began planning their wedding. Their first thought was to have a destination wedding in Jamaica. After several family meetings and many discussions, however, they decided that a destination wedding would be too complicated for some family Read more
