Category Archives: Opinions
Just do … something
‘‘It’s never too late to start.” That’s the word from a health professor at a large university on the topic of health behaviors as we age. Specifically she was talking about 
habits we need to prioritize in our 60s and 70s. The long-term goal: to maintain mobility and our independence as we age further.
Here are two things they suggest:
Balance — Long-term studies show that
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Applying for VA health care
Iran into a guy recently, a fellow veteran, who I hadn’t talked to in years. And he was limping, badly. When I asked, he said he needed knee surgery and couldn’t afford it.
I asked if he’d looked into VA health care, and he replied that he’d applied years ago and got nowhere with the VA, so he gave up.
Before we even left the store, I had my phone
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Dreams are empowered with perseverance
Disappointment is a familiar feeling, especially to the ambitious. The more a person strives, the more failures they will face, but this doesn’t mean that every door is always 
locked.
Learning self-control and patience is a part of the advancement process. It is said that “True success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm,” and we certainly do not have the time to
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Courier Letter to the Editor 7-22-26
Passing secrets
Dear Editor,
All through history people have used secret ways to proclaim something controversial. Sometimes it could be a book, such as Louisa May Alcott’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” She was against slavery but feared trouble if she came out and said it, so she wrote the book,
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Calculating 2027 Social Security
There is talk among the experts who track these things that the Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) will rise 3.8 percent for 2027. This is down slightly from 
their guess of 3.9 percent just two months ago.
In other words, we can’t take that estimated increase in our Social Security benefit to the bank just yet. There is room for change between now and October, when the official 2027 figures come out based on
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Today’s little boy is tomorrow’s grandpa
Ephesians 6:4 (KJV): “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
As we grow older we realize the days get longer but the years seem shorter. Time becomes precious and seems to be limited by our thoughts, habits and attitudes.
We understand time has placed us in bondage. We are slaves to time. Our lives are governed by watches, clocks and calendars. It seems as though everything in our lives happens on a schedule.
We go to work, eat, sleep, and schedule our free-time activities based on dates and time. Why is this concept important? Time controls our lives and it also limits our lives. We
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
These famous words written by Thomas Jefferson, enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, are very familiar to us. They are foundational to the life of our nation 
and define the theme of American civic life. On this 250th anniversary of our nation, we should reflect on this seminal statement.
Thomas Jefferson was influenced by the political philosopher John Locke, who proposed that people have natural rights: life, liberty and property. Jefferson changed this to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Happiness, at that time and context, meant the pursuit of civic virtue and moral excellence. How profoundly different this is from our contemporary understanding of happiness as the
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