Local Life

by Barbara Sherf Are you a “Baby Boomer” in need of help managing change rather than allowing change to define you? If so, Lafayette Hill resident Jan Moskowitz Zacharjasz, the founder of a life-coaching firm called Coaching for Resilience, is offering a free five-day online workshop titled “Kickstart Your Midlife Reboot” next week. The half-hour […]

by Len Lear In April of 2017, Robert Fles, retired teacher and administrator at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and a former long-time resident of Chestnut Hill, wrote in these pages, “Just how imperfectly human (George) Washington was leaps from virtually every page of a new book about him. Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s title for her recently […]

by Barbara Sherf The concept of synchronicity actually came into play in bringing Dianne Seaman to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church this Sunday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. for a program sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Mysticism (CCM). Synchronicity is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are “meaningful […]

by Jim Smart It was not much of a surprise to read in a recent copy of Consumer Reports that in a recent month, about 3.4 billion of those automated robocalls were inflicted on telephones in the United States. That averages more than 10 calls a month for every man, woman and child. We get […]

by Barbara Sherf As I was leaving Valley Green Inn after catching up with a friend last week, I saw a police car out front and a young woman sitting on the bench in tears. Walking my friend to her car and giving her a hug, my intention was to then take a meditative walk […]

by Roz Warren Bagging your own groceries didn’t even used to be an option. The cashier did it. Or a bagger, whose entire job consisted of filling up grocery bags without breaking the eggs. That was fine with me. I was no more eager to do their work for them than the patrons at the […]

by Len Lear With February and African-American History Month right around the corner, Margaret Montet returns to the Center on the Hill, 8855 Germantown Ave., on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1:30 p.m., to present her entertaining and educational program about the Harlem Renaissance. Montet, 55, is the Information Literacy Librarian at Bucks County Community College. She […]

by Len Lear Here in the United States of Consumerism, most people at all income levels have tons of “stuff” in every drawer, every closet, every cabinet, every attic and basement, not to mention piles of newspapers, magazines, photos, personal letters, documents, receipts, etc., and we keep buying more and more stuff, mostly on sale, […]