Mayo Clinic researchers say building friendships and creating thriving social circles is a key component of good health, even in adult life.  In the clinic's HealthQuest newsletter, doctors recommend eight ways for adults to meet new friends: 1.  Take your pet for walks and make conversations with folk who stop to chat. 2.  Join a […]

  On the Presidential campaign trail of 1960, then Senator John F. Kennedy stopped in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at 2 o'clock in the morning to get some sleep.  But, 10,000 university students were waiting for him, hoping to hear him speak.  And so he did.  With no reporters around, Kennedy gave an impromptu speech and […]

Work life balance expert Jim Bird (www.worklifebalance.com) says we hear all the time how important it is to have jobs we love.  Yet most people he know don't love their work.  They either accept it or tolerate it.  And that's okay, Bird says.  He points out that while it's not necessary to be passionate about […]

James A. Brewer, a hospital worker by trade, nurtureda lifelong passion for inspiration writing.  His routine for more than 41 years, was to rise at 4:30 a.m. fourdays a week and write 200 one liners.  Brewer started this routine when he was 16 years old and over the years his work has been published in numerous […]

March is Women's' History Month.  For ever profession women pursue today, some woman somewhere was the first to lead the way.  Here are a few "firsts" whose name should not be forgotten. Ann Teresa Mathews – Invented a method of cleaning and curing corn which she applied for a patent, the patent was granted to […]

March 21st is National Quilting Day.  The largest completed quilt in the world was created for the centennial celebration of North Dakota held in 1987.  Leonna Tennyson organize and encourage the efforts of 7,000 quilters around the state for the project.  The result is 135 feet long and 85 feet wide weighing in at 800 […]