Aging Well April 1st 2014
Being active in your community is both good for the community and good for your health and well-being. This community involvement is often called Civic Engagement – April’s theme in your Passport to Happiness Calendar. An example is represented by the photo for April: The Dalles Floozies on the Queen of the West – a […]
Aging Well March 25th 2014
We are all learning how to navigate this digital age: email addresses, numerous passwords, Facebook friends, and online banking. (Okay, not all of us. I know several folks who have resisted the temptation and after spending hours trying to remember my passwords, they just may have the right idea!) But knowing that you can’t really […]
Aging Well March 18th 2014
Is there anything you want to learn or better understand – something to sink your teeth in? It could be learning how to stitch, playing a ukulele, trying your hand at poetry, or since you always doodled as a child, learning how to draw. Or how about learning how to use a new iPad, or […]
Aging Well March 11th 2014
Is it beginning to feel like spring? Because we are getting closer with the first day of spring (or the vernal equinox as the say in the more educated circles) arriving on March 20th. And just like flowers sprouting in the gardens and ants climbing on the kitchen counters, the Center is busy with activity. […]
Aging Well March 4th 2014
Life can be broadly defined by three stages: the years preparing for work and family – when you were told what you had to do, followed by years of working and raising a family – when you did what you thought you should do. And now this third chapter when you are no longer working, […]
Aging Well February 25th 2014
“Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.” – Franklin P. Jones American Journalist and Humorist Don’t you wish the American legal system was simple, understandable, and inexpensive? But doesn’t it seem like the laws are becoming even more complex, and in the name of clarity and fairness more ambiguous and contradictory, […]
Aging Well February 18th 2014
Unless you are a Jeremiah Johnson living in the Rocky Mountains, everyone needs to participate in a network of social supports. When raising a family and working full time, those supports came easily. But when the last paid job is only a memory; friends and family have moved or passed away; and the body? Well, […]
Aging Well February 11th 2014
I hope you have dug yourself out of the snow by the time you read this. But as I was shoveling the snow – for the third time! – my mind wondered back to the days of my childhood when snow was a gift from the heavens giving children a chance to build snow caves, […]
Aging Well February 4th 2014
Maybe it’s the weeks without seeing the sun, or the chilly days cooped up inside, or the late sunrises and early sunsets, but it is easy to get down during these cold grey days of winter in The Dalles. And if you do get the “wintertime” blues, you may try to “just get over […]
Aging Well January 28th 2014
There are many organizations in the Mid-Columbia supporting older adults, but there are very few whose only mission is the health and wellbeing of older adults. One of those organizations is the Area Agency on Aging (AAA) operated under the Mid-Columbia Council of Governments serving a five county region: Wheeler, Gilliam, Sherman, Wasco and Hood […]