Taking a walk in the divine path
I’ve never done this before in my life: 240 pages, written, rewritten, edited and polished in a little over six weeks. George Frideric Handel did his Messiah in about that much time, but he was a...
View ArticleResilience strategy: Stop. Look. Listen.
Trains have always fascinated me. As a counselor, I often refer to the “STOP, LOOK and LISTEN” sign found at railroad crossings as an anxiety reduction technique to help my patients get back on...
View ArticleFor inner peace, learn to acknowledge projections
His Holiness The Dalai Lama has said on occasion that we will not have peace in the world until we have inner peace. Many spiritual paths help us become aware of the duality of the split mind...
View ArticleInner Peace: Memoirs and mindfulness have the power to heal
A recent poll found that the number-one retirement aspiration of baby boomers is to write a memoir.Amazing?! Not really. For years I suffered from a debilitating self doubt. I hid it reasonably well in...
View ArticleThe holy wildness of inner peace
My conscious quest for inner peace began when I was 18 years old after a transcendent experience in which I spontaneously experienced a peace beyond my life circumstances. I spent the next 15 years on...
View ArticleNew Thought embraces creative spirit
There are many authors-teachers who have recently gained popularity in the western culture. People like Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Eckhart Tolle and even Joel Osteen are professing...
View ArticleInner Peace: Trump made my stabilizer conk out
The presence of Donald Trump on the national scene has created such havoc among my friends (and I confess, in me, too) that I went out and invested in beefing up my stabilizer.The stabilizer is a piece...
View ArticleAging Happens: Examine options while you still have some
This is the perfect time of year to make a resolution to start planning for the future. Whether it’s thinking about the holidays or, in this case, looking at options for where you might consider...
View ArticleDr. Gawande to talk on 'Village Movement'
The organization known as The “Village Movement” began in Boston in 1999. The intention of this group of friends was to address their wish for more freedom and control over their lives as they aged....
View ArticleNo family? Resources still available for aging seniors
Not a month goes by when I don’t hear from someone who wonders how to plan for their needs as they age if they have no adult children or other close family members and friends. This is not an isolated...
View ArticleAging Happens: Taking steps to avoid falls
It’s been said that falling is a game-changer for older adults. This is not meant to describe a change for the better, either. Here are some facts from a local organization, Age Friendly Innovators...
View ArticleAs It Was: Hilt robbery netted $150 and a $1,500 diamond ring
Victor Eugene “Slim” Warrens knew how to run a profitable saloon and he was fond of diamonds. He didn’t take kindly to being robbed.On Saturday night, Nov. 16, 1912, when two masked robbers entered...
View ArticleRogue Valley women formed Colony Club in 1911
The orchardists of Southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley had their men’s club in Medford. The women gathered at the Nash Hotel until they formed their own Colony Club in 1911.After meeting in several...
View ArticleCrater Lake's Munson Valley named after ill-fated physician
The Crater Lake National Park headquarters is nestled in a deep depression known as Munson Valley. Other features of the park include Munson Springs, Munson Creek, Munson Point and Munson Ridge, all...
View ArticleOnly the name persists of Persists, Ore.
In 1883, William and Irene Willits homesteaded nearly 500 acres in the mountains above Elk Creek in Jackson County, Oregon. They had both been teachers, but liked the idea of living far from their...
View ArticleRogue Valley got a white Christmas
A contributing writer for the As It Was radio series, Luana Corbin, recalls that as a child growing up in the Rogue Valley she had always wished for a white Christmas. Each year as the holiday grew...
View ArticleAs It Was: Barns and troughs served as 1880's billboards
Barns and watering troughs served as billboards in the 1880s, proof that advertising was as much a part of life in those days as railroading and road building.Advertising crews traveled stage roads in...
View ArticleWoman describes six-day road trip to California in 1922
Sixty-nine years after it happened, Marjorie H. Gardner described a road trip in 1922 from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco, California. Her family drove a Willys-Overland automobile and a Hupmobile,...
View ArticleEarly maps show towns that no longer exist
On the wall of the 1912 Sunset Schoolhouse in Fort Rock, Ore., is an Oregon map from the 1920s. It shows the major towns of Ashland and Medford along the Oregon and California Railroad line through the...
View ArticleEven detractors at times praised Joaquin Miller's work
Many critics of the flamboyant Western dress and extravagant poetry of Joaquin Miller have also recognized his enthusiasm and contribution to Western literature.A contemporary detractor, author Ambrose...
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