http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress WordPress For ElderHope Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:48:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My wife and I just finished watching The Bucket List starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson as two cancer patients with a short time to live. They devise a Bucket List of items they want to do before their lives end - things which they would regret not having done. ... http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress/2008/08/08/the-bucket-list-before-there-was-one/ As a teen I was only marginally more athletic than I am now (which is almost none at all). Still, I liked to swim and felt I could do so quite naturally. I never cared for speed swimming, just swimming for pleasure and survival. One summer I took the American Red ... http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress/2008/07/12/let-them-go-under-before-you-go-after-them/ Let's be clear: I have no agenda when it comes to another's faith preferences. I have enough issues living my own life without trying to impose my values on you. If you ask me about my faith tradition, I'll skim over it and likely move on pretty quickly. Would that ... http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress/2008/05/31/militant-atheism-the-new-fundamentalists/ Recently, my son, a teenager who is quite dear to me, forgot that we were supposed to meet at a certain time. I traveled a good while to pick him up. He didn't show up. In a later conversation, he said with regard to his error, "My Bad." Now, I know ... http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress/2008/02/23/my-bad/ To place a ragged and gently moistened towel, On the feverish brow of your child; To rub his back, Until you both awaken, hours later, fever gone, Bathed in Sun's rays.   To summertime fish in the light of a kerosene lantern, Your sister only feet away, trying to make sense of meteors and love, ... http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress/2007/11/21/whats-worth-staying-up-for/ Tonight, at the end of a rather full and long day, Barb, I and our two Goldens, Jeffie and Jillie, went outside for a walk in our rather well-lit neighborhood. In recent days, we went on a trip to Fort Davis, Texas and the Fredericksburg, Texas. There in Fort Davis we ... http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress/2007/11/07/on-a-small-world-far-away/ This past winter, I won a trip to Disneyworld through a sweepstakes on the Kim Komando Show, a nationally broadcast radio program about All Things Digital (It is, by the way, a wonderful program and resource for anyone trying to learn about computers, as well as those who are old ... http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress/2007/08/01/disney-and-einstein/ I remember the night I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind for the first time. It was at the mobile home of a neighbor in the dark back country roads outside Chattanooga, Tennessee. I'm going strictly by memory right now but if it serves correctly, the beginning is marked ... http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress/2007/05/13/your-own-close-encounter/ We in modern society are fond of complaining about the health care system. Indeed, complaints about modern health care are ubiquitous - like talking about the weather: "Was it raining when you came in? Darn if my hemorrhoids aren't acting up again. You never see the same doctor these days." See ... http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress/2007/05/03/10/ Using the following link, you should be able to track us on Technorati! Technorati Profile http://www.elderhope.com/modules/wordpress/2007/03/27/were-linking-to-technorati/