As this is Women’s History Month, I was asked to write an entry on a woman I admired. I thought, “Just one?” and “Does she need to be an historical figure?” I googled “unsung females,” “women warriors,” “cool chicks,” “invisible women” and many more. Women I...
March 22 marks As Young As You Feel Day, which was established by Thomas Roy and his wife, Ruth Roy. Says Roy: “Now more than ever you are as young as you feel. So, stop acting your chronological age and get out there and start feeling peppy!” We may recall our...
If the world really needs something beyond the masks, the vaccines, the dedicated people, and the will to work through everyday life in a pandemic, laughter could become very important. Studies show laughing can boost your immune system, help you relax, and relieve...
There are times when we look in the mirror and begin rejecting the person staring back at us. Times when unwelcome emotions spring to the surface and self-loathe crashes down like a tidal wave. We have all been there, and for some, far too often. There have been...
I doubt I’ll ever forget the feelings of anxiety I felt going into March 2020. I’d spent several weeks hearing about this whole coronavirus thing, fielding questions about it in my role as a Gateway Associate at Metropolitan State University about what the school...
According to a survey, 95% of human resource leaders in 2019 claimed that heavy workloads are causing employees to become burned out. Chronic stress is the cause of burnout, and the primary concern is how our system responds to the many stressors that accumulate on...
Brandon Stanton, a New York photographer, pursued a small project to capture the people of New York. As he worked on this project, he started to learn more about each individual’s story. He would discover stories about a daughter’s relationship with her father, an...
You wake up Monday morning seeing the sunshine through your blinds and hear your alarm clock blaring. You blink a couple of times and immediately close your eyes, sensitive to the pulsing cluster headache, and want to go back to sleep. You remember now that you...
While sex education and birth control are more readily available than ever, both are still divisive topics. Religious beliefs, societal expectations, and lack of education play a large role in the choices people make, and it can be easy to take those choices for...
One little known fact about the month of March is that it bears the designation of National Craft Month. A craft, known as a skill that involves making things by hand, is an incredibly broad term that may categorize thousands of different activities from painting,...
1911 was, by and large, an eventful year. It was the year when the first official airmail flight took off, the year that the NAACP was consolidated, the year when the world witnessed the theft of the Mona Lisa, the year when Portugal approved female suffrage,...
The first Friday in March marks National Day of Unplugging, a 24-hour opportunity to step away from our phones, laptops and the all-encompassing devices that are tightly knitted into the fabric of our daily lives. From sundown Friday to sundown Saturday is not that...
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