Learning is something we do each and every minute of our lives. We may not acknowledge the lessons we digest in the course of a day, but they certainly are filed in that wonderful storage device we call our brains. It’s in our nature to believe that “learning” requires a concentrated, discrete effort on our […]
Frank Phillips
Do You Care?
By strict definition, a caregiver or carer “is an unpaid or paid person who helps another individual with an impairment with his or her activities of daily living. Caregiving is most commonly used to address impairments related to old age, disability, a disease or a mental disorder.” Statistics show that the amount of caregiving that […]
LEAP by Frank Phillips
WOW! It’s February already, the year is 8.3333% over. While January kind of drags on with the post-holiday blahs, February shows up with a packed schedule and moves us one step closer to Spring. And this year, we get a special gift, a February 29th, more on that coming up. February begins with the grand […]
Happy New Year by Frank Phillips
By now, Christmas 2015 is fading into memory, presents are being enjoyed, replaced, or re-gifted, relatives and guests have departed for their own homes, and the days away from work and school are dwindling down to a precious few. Depressing, perhaps, but wait! There is more to come. The time honored tradition of New Year’s […]
The Summer of 72 by Frank Phillips
Hey, isn’t that 30 years too many if you’re recalling one of the classic coming of age movies of all time? It would be, but this title is referring to something more like the coming of aging. You see this was the summer of my 72nd year and coincidentally, the summer that I first really […]
Be All That You Can Be? by Frank Phillips
As our time on earth progresses, the voices of self-examination and woulda, coulda, shoulda become louder and more frequent. Why is that? Basically we can chalk it up to the human need for approval, even if it is us approving of us. In this sense we seek personal approval for the things we have accomplished […]
” Color Me . . .” by Frank Phillips
In this fast paced world of instant access and communication of all media, drone flyovers (official and unofficial), and a sub 24 hour news cycle, personal time and what we do with it has become a precious commodity. The Heartland Library Cooperative’s shelves are laden with volumes encouraging, teaching, and supporting a myriad of subjects […]
“Golf?” by Frank Phillips
As I write this, golfers around the world are eagerly anticipating the play in the 3rd of 4 “major” golf tournaments in the calendar year. By the time you read this, that tournament will have passed producing the year’s 3-time major winner, a redeemed major winner wannabe, or perhaps a golfer who claws up that […]