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Creating a Mystery Tour
A “Mystery Tour!” The whole idea is built on concocting stories about various sites and creating the aura of a true mystery for the tourists. These stories could be suspenseful and add a degree of unresolved drama to the tour. Surely the cities that have ghost tours provide wonderful stories about the undead and the spirits roaming the area.
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Parking Lot Frustration Spurs Questions About Society
I’ve been an optimist for as long as I can remember. A recent parking lot experience caused me to give pause to the belief that people, in general, are kind and considerate.
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Revolutionaries–What’s in a Name?
A friend of mine mentioned that a group of seniors was discussing aging and the fact that the term “Senior” had to disappear. Not one person in the group liked being called a “Senior” so another term was discussed such as “Thrivers.”
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Junk Mail Targeted to Seniors
I am ever so proud to be able to connect a new router to every piece of equipment that needs a connection to the intranet. And, I connected a camera doorbell that can identify who is at the door and provide the ability to inquire about the purpose. Yes, to be a “senior” and be relatively high tech is wonderful.
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Perpetual Prep Needed To Offset Unhealthy Eating
During dinner with friends last night, a discussion took place that centered on experiences in one’s life that may not always be representative of a healthy decision.
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People Matter
Let us pay attention to people. Let us slow down and spend less. Go for walks. Go to the zoo, visit the Humane Society and walk the dogs, visit people in a nursing home or senior center, lend a hand to a friend and/or neighbor. Be thoughtful and genuine. Make calls to people and check up on them.
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What a Wonderful Time of the Year
While friends are getting upset that the holidays are right around the corner, focusing on food preparation and gift purchases, not one of them is discussing the holiday that is upon us, Halloween. It is not the time of year for the faint of heart, however. It is the time of year to get one’s heart “kick started” with adrenaline.
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Human Interaction: A Thing of the Past
“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots”
Albert Einstein
At the Gateway Theatre there is an art exhibit existing of numerous paintings of people sitting with each other doing nothing but texting.
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The Power of Good
Nicholas Winton-The Power of Good won an International Emmy in 2002. The Columbus Dispatch published an article on July 2, 2015 that describes the heroic actions of a young British man named Nicolas Winton. He was born in London in 1909 to parents of German Jewish decent but raised Christian. He saved 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia by transporting them from Prague to Britain
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