Articles, activities for boomers & seniors
Food for Thought Winter 2017
Joe Dormans, Executive Chef, Fellowship Community
How do you modify recipes to make sure they are healthy?
At Fellowship Community, we use fresh ingredients to boost the nutritional value of the foods we serve. We also select lean cuts of meat to prepare our recipes. Many processed foods are loaded with sodium, saturated fats, and sugar. We go to the extent of making our own salad dressings, sauces and soups.
Back Story - Fall 2017
Q&A with JoAnn Bergeron Nenow, Executive Director of Meals On Wheels of Northampton County.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
I love interacting with my co-workers, volunteers and clients. I take great satisfaction in knowing that we are caring for our elders and helping them to remain living in their homes for as long as is possible. I love how our volunteers come from all different walks of life yet share the same level of giving.
Strange and Unusual Facts
William Marston engineered one of the earliest forms of the polygraph in the early 1900’s. Later he went on to create the comic strip Wonder Woman, a story about a displaced Amazon princess who forces anyone caught in her magic lasso to tell the truth.
Things to Do with Grandkids - Fall 2017
Apple Picking
Solebury Orchards, Solebury. Quaint and simple, the orchard offers a simple picking experience. Wagon rides to the orchard. Thurs to Sun 9 am-6 pm. Soleburyorchards.com
Snipes Farm, Morrisville. Pick your own apples, a corn maze, face painting and pumpkin painting and barnyard animals. Starting late September to early November. Sat 9 am-6 pm & Sun 10 am - 5 pm. Snipesfarm.org
Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave
We like to have visitors. Sometimes, the best visitors are unexpected. In all cases, the best visitors are those who stay overnight but need no accommodations, carry no baggage, require no food, and don’t carry on long conversations. They take up no space and leave behind no laundry or trash. They even help around the house.
Ten Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime
Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come. Maybe not in the seniors of today lifetimes but more likely in our children’s.
1. The Post Office
Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.