blogging – watercress words by Dr Aletha

With people living such long lives now, most of us will spend a large portion of it as grandparents, even great-grandparents. But today’s grandmothers aren’t just sitting in rocking chairs knitting.

Modern grandmothers do everything. They run businesses and run for office.

There are grandmothers in Congress and on the Supreme Court.

Grandmothers run marathons, teach yoga, and compete in ballroom dancing (like me).

Some retire from long successful careers and some start new careers.

And some grandmothers write blogs.

These grandmothers’ blogs cover a variety of subjects

home,marriage, family, travel, cooking, fitness, retirement, faith, genealogy, crafts, gardening, books, health, DIY, and of course grandchildren.

find hidden opportunities hidden in each new day — Michael Josephson-ethics law professor– affiliate link

2019 New Year’s Resolutions

Several of the other grandmother bloggers I know shared their new year’s resolutions online. Here is what I wrote-

I’m a stickler for definitions so I checked to see what “resolution” means. It is a “firm determination to do something” or the “act of solving a problem.”

So I don’t do New Year’s resolutions because I think we should be doing resolutions all the time; if we think of it as just a once a year process, we miss multiple opportunities to accomplish new things or solve problems.

So, I do resolve to continue learning new things and improving my skills. In 2019 I will be required to recertify as a family physician, so I have a “firm determination” to pass the exam.

I also want to improve my ballroom dancing skills, learn new steps and routines.

I want to update old blog posts with newer information and address important medical topics that I haven’t tackled before.

I want to spend quality time with my friends and family, nurture my faith and find new ways to give back to my community.

This bright new year is given to me to live each day with zest-William Arthur Ward — William Arthur Ward- author and pastor– affiliate link

More grandmothers’ resolutions

Here are summaries of what other grandmothers shared with a link to their blogs.

Kimberly – Passing Down the Love:

finalize my retirement plans,
move my feet a little more and
look for happiness in the little things.

Donna – Retirement Reflections:

healthy diet and increased exercise.

Sylvia – Grace for a Gypsy:

to organize and publish my family research

Angie – Flippin Fanchers:

fully transition my DIY blog to a grandma blog.

Louise – Going Ba-Nanas for Baby:

To pray with consistency, and not just when I need help.
To thank God for my blessings instead of complaining about my challenges
To request, each and every day, that my loved ones and I will be watched over from above, and always kept in the light of divine grace.

Marilyn – Marilyn’s Treats:

To simplify my life.
To spend more time taking care of “me” so I can be there to enjoy family and friends.

Cathy – Life of 2 Snowbirds:

Start my healthy diet and exercise more.

Nikki – Gwin Gal Inside and Out:

to host more family get-togethers much more frequently in the coming months.

Renee – Grandmommin:

to be more verbally appreciative

Pat – Mille Fiori Favoriti:

to live even more healthfully, with more exercise, and to
be proactive about going to exams and tests to monitor our health.

Marisa – All Our Way:

I’m signing on with an agent which leaves me free to work on my blog
I want to double my page view by next year.

Christie – So What? Now What?:

to accomplish or experience things during 2019, focusing on health, joy, learning, and relationships.

Beverly – Across the Boulevard:

for blogging, to re-evaluate what I want to accomplish and to take steps that puts it on the path I want for it.

Your turn to resolve-

How about you? What do you resolve, plan, hope, or want to achieve in 2019? And why not ask your grandmother what her resolutions are?

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but a new you.

the HEART of health

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This is one of my favorite posts for several reasons.

It introduces a guest post I was asked to do for a fellow blogger, Kathleen Aherne. I was flattered and honored.

I share some of my personal life, which I don’t do very often.

It was a featured post at Blogger’s Pit Stop.

So here it is, and it’s actually two posts in one- a post I shared to introduce and link to the guest post. Enjoy and imagine.

Let imagination take you where you want to go

I’m a physician who studied mostly science classes in school, so I don’t think of myself as artistic. This blog serves as a creative outlet for me, but that’s about where it ends. I find inspiration in multiple sources- my family and friends, nature, the patients I treat, music, and reading but I don’t think of myself as creative.

So when Kathleen Aherne asked me to write a guest post for her website, Let’s Create, I was a little surprised but also excited at the chance to share some of what has inspired my life. She asked me to write a two part story, so I am sharing part 1 with you here.

You can start reading it here, and then continue with the link to the rest of the post at Let’s Create.

Reading-The fastest way to everywhere

I grew up as an only child, in a home that was not well off financially. With no siblings, and few neighborhood kids, I used my imagination to have fun. I watched television shows but there was no internet or digital devices for entertainment. Mostly, I read books which became my favorite pastime.

I still have my three favorite books- Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes,

Better Homes and Gardens Story Book, and

The Golden Treasury of Natural History,

all of which have survived multiple moves in readable condition. I don’t read them now, but reading continues to be my favorite way to pass a relaxing evening or rainy afternoon.

When I was young, my mother enjoyed country music and she never missed a TV show featuring a pretty young blonde singer. With her bouffant hairstyle and frilly dresses, I thought the singer was a famous star. I didn’t know she was new to country music, trying to break into the business, and this was her first major opportunity.

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