Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness, gratitude, and, of course, tasty food. But for seniors and baby boomers, the holiday can sometimes present challenges that weren’t there in years past. Dietary restrictions, changing family dynamics, and the desire to create a stress-free environment for everyone can make holding the perfect Thanksgiving feel daunting.

This can make setting up a Thanksgiving celebration that fits everyone’s different needs and preferences feel a bit like a juggling act. Fear not! With a little creativity and planning, you can host or help plan a Th…

Every year, to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the team at Friends Life Care does something charitable to give back to our community and honor his legacy.  Our inspiration is Dr. King’s own words: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”

This year, it was decided to get involved and collect items for Family Promise Montco PA.  From their website, here is more about the organization and the good work they do. “For more than 40 years, Family Promise Montco PA (formerly Inter-Faith Housing Alliance) has partnered with reli…

Sometimes delays are gifts.
I remember a day in 2017.  It had been a particularly busy one.  And I was in transit to continue on with “more busy-ness”. On top of everything else, it had rained all day.  It was one of those dismal afternoons. When all of a sudden, traffic backed up on this particular overpass and came to a complete standstill for about 10 minutes. However, had this not occurred in this exact spot, at this exact time, I would have missed the view of this beautiful rainbow.

Most, if not all, cultures and spiritual orientations have given meaning to …

It’s February, the month in which we celebrate Valentine’s Day. So, there is going to be lots of talk on the internet, on television and church about the heart and everything associated with it. The heart is a big deal—though a small organ—and it deserves to have its own month. As a matter fact, the heart should have three months! Yes, three, as in after two and before four.

Why three? Because the human heart is more than the organ which “beats about 2.5 billion times over the average lifetime, pushing millions of gallons of blood to every part of the body…[c…

What if we approached the New Year in the way a bride approaches her wedding day? We would not have to worry ourselves with well-intentioned New Year resolutions. Instead, we’d simply decide on four things to take into the new year—“something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.”

Most of us are familiar with this traditional English wedding rhyme that dates to the nineteenth century. In its shortened contemporary version (“and a sixpence in her shoe” is seldom used), the rhyme contains the clues to the “four good-luck objects…a bride…