"Since the pandemic started, I've wanted to stay connected with our community. Through the form of a weekly blog, I share my insights and reflections on various topics."
Happy New Year. While we don’t know what the new year will bring to us, we do know one thing for sure. In 2025, each of us will get a year older. In Holly Burns 2023 New York Times article—"How to Change Your Mind-Set About Aging”—she notes, “People who think positively about getting older often live longer, healthier lives.”
In 2014, Russian scientists were trying to save an endangered species; the Amur tiger, otherwise known as the Siberian tiger. In one instance, two unrelated cubs, Svetlaya and Boris, had been rescued in the wild as young cubs.
In The Washington Post last week, Alexandra Hudson wrote an Op-Ed piece about one way to save friendships. Ms. Hudson is “passionate about the way that ideas and storytelling change people’s lives” and is the author of The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves.
The other day I was listening to an interview of Malcolm Gladwell by Adam Grant. Gladwell is a journalist and public speaker best known for his books The Tipping Point and Outliers. Grant is an organizational psychologist, Wharton School professor, and author of books such as Think Again and Hidden Potential.
The other day, Oxford University Press announced that the Oxford word of the year for 2024 is “brain rot.” It seems like two words to me, but who am I to second-guess Oxford. The word (phrase) is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging.”
By the time you’re reading this post, and if you celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, you likely have blown the budget on eating this week. I know I have. Thanksgiving kicks off an eating frenzy that, for most of us, goes through New Year’s Day.