ReFirement at Any Age: Protect Your Peace

By Gail Supplee Tatum, Columnist, The Times With all the uncertainties and all of the changes going on in the world, my mantra, my prayer for myself, and for the world is to protect my peace, to protect our peace. Protecting your peace is essential and of the utmost importance for maintaining mental, emotional, and even physical well-being in a fast-paced, often stressful world. By focusing on mindfulness,...

Can we find peace and goodwill this Christmas?

By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa “Peace on Earth, good will toward men.” Those words should – and I hope will — describe our interactions with friends and family over the holidays. But, with so much division and anger, I suspect for some folks that will prove difficult. We’ve never been a perfect people, racism, imperialism, sexism, religious discrimination and corruption have...

Focus on the good for this most unusual Christmas

By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa It’s easy to be hung up on all of the bad things we’re living through right now. I’m not going to list them all, you know them all too well and don’t need me to remind you. So, as we head into Christmas week, I want to focus on the things we can celebrate – and yes, there are things. With all of the difficulties, we’ve learned to appreciate...