Well Being Magazine

National Parks – America’s Best Idea

Just over a year ago, the National Park Service celebrated its 100th birthday. But the story of our national parks began long before Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Act in 1916. It took John Muir’s writings that convinced the U.S. government to protect Yosemite, Sequoia, the Grand Canyon and Mt. Rainier as national parks, Teddy Roosevelt “the conservation president,” who established five new national parks from 1901-1909 and Read more »

kid’s corner: Nothing Rhymes with Orange

By Adam Rex – Recommended Ages: 5 – 8 years If you are the fruit that nothing rhymes with, how does that make you feel? Well, it’s a little like being the one picked last for a team, except you never get picked. When a parade of fruit gets together to sing a song about how wonderful they are – and the song happens to rhyme – Orange can't help but Read more »

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

By Hendrik Groen Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Technically speaking he is...elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik decides to chronicle his life in his care home in Amsterdam, revealing all its ups and downs – including his new endeavor, the Old-But-Not-Dead Club. And when Eefje Read more »

Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

By Kimberly Williams-Paisley You may know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the 1991 Steve Martin remake of the movie classic Father of the Bride, as Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the real-life wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. But perhaps, her most challenging role has been that of daughter – when her mother, Linda was diagnosed with a rare form of dementia that slowly crippled her ability to talk, Read more »