Category: bucket list

• A Vacation Filled with Kind Strangers

  Last week Mim and I returned home from our third vacation of the year. We’re making up for the past 16 years of almost no vacations while we were doing assisted living in our home. This vacation had lessons for us to learn just as our earlier two vacations this year had. Our July vacation…

  Marian

  November 8, 2019

  Book Recommendations, bucket list, Nature, Reflections, Vacations

  Cape Cod, Cape Cod National Seashore, Cleveland, fall colors, fall foliage, Finger Lakes, Indiana Dunes National Park, kind people, kind strangers, kindness, kindness of strangers, Lebanese restaurant, make someone’s day, Mike McIntyre, National Women’s Rights Historical Park, October vacation, paid for dinner, Penniless across America, Plainfield CT, random act of kindness, school security guard, Seneca Falls, Sturbridge Village, The Kindness of Strangers, timeshare, vacation, women’s movement

• Getting Serious about a Bucket List

  The term “bucket list” came into widespread use after the 2007 movie Bucket List was released, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The movie was about two old men who each had a terminal cancer diagnosis. Together they decided to do everything they could on their lists of “things to do before I kick the…

  Marian

  September 11, 2019

  Book Recommendations, bucket list, Goals, God’s Love, Group Retreats, Reflections

  Bible Camp, bucket list, Church of the Brethren, common good, conference, Drew Hart, Joan Chittister, Ken Medema, Lake Junaluska, National Older Adults Conference, NOAC, North Carolina, spontaneous, Ted Swartz