Simple Tips

October 19th, 2011

I LOVE cooking at eating which is why in addition to the space & time blog, I also write a food blog which you can check out here at http://thehangryfoodasaurus.blogspot.com/ As some of you may already know,  I am very into the local food movement and have been a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) member of [...]

Tags: CSA, local

August 29th, 2011

          Just wanted to share a link to a YouTube video recently posted by researchers at my alma mater, Penn State.  Researchers in the Nursing Department in the College of Health and Human Development are developing techniques and strategies for dealing effectively with difficult dementia behaviors such as delivery of oral [...]

August 15th, 2011

In that last two weeks or so I’ve been talking to friends who are dealing with the often-dreaded experience of moving.  For college students, apartment-dwellers and people who live in crowded cities, this becomes very cyclic.  It seems in Boston the most common lease-start date is September 1, which means that for some people this [...]

July 11th, 2011

  Giving him some time.   He is nearly as old as I am, and knows nearly everything that I do. He learns more slowly than me, mostly because he reads more deeply into things. I know regretfully little about him but he’s always surprisingly composed and playful. He never has an agenda nor does [...]

July 1st, 2011

Something occurred to me today and it is a theme that has come up before for me and likely for you as well.  I thought to myself, “Am I creating my own barriers?”  Let me back up a minute by describing what led to this question.  In the last two months I started a part-time [...]

Tags: barriers, constraints

June 14th, 2011

Well, June is here. In fact, we are at the mid-way point already!  To me, it always seems like January, February and March drone on, while before I know it July 4th, the true mark of summer in my personal dictionary, has come and gone.  All winter long, I long for the warmer weather, longer [...]

May 27th, 2011

Hi space & time readers! I am Catherine from the sewing blog La Créature and today, I am here to share with you some tips about finding the time, the energy and the motivation to practice a hobby. We all have busy lives and it is quite easy at the end of the day to [...]

May 12th, 2011

Amazon.com Widgets Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s, by Joanne Koenig Coste is a fantastic overview for anyone who works with persons with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).  The author lives outside of Boston and has had an enormous amount of personal and professional experience with the subject including caring first-hand for her husband with AD as well as [...]

Tags: care-partner

April 22nd, 2011

The original plan was to end this week with a book review of April’s recommended book, but life threw me a couple of curveballs, so I had to change direction a bit.  Fortunately, this allows today’s post to be about Earth Day.  I have always liked this particular celebration because it is transcends all boundaries [...]

April 15th, 2011

It’s a simple enough question.  We might ask ourselves, “What’s in it for me?” in deciding whether or not to pursue something such as following a blog, taking on a new role or responsibility, or making an investment.  This is an absolutely valid, important and legitimate question!  It is a good idea to be discerning [...]