by Susan Matley | Jan 27, 2017 | Official Blog
If you’ve been on Facebook this week (I don’t blame you if you dropped out because you just can’t take it any more), you’ve likely seen a post about how people can’t agree on anything, with a photo of a stick temptingly captioned This is a stick. Many have joined in...
by Susan Matley | Jan 20, 2017 | Official Blog
Bet you didn’t know I was an American Buddhist in Prescott, WA. There’s a good reason for that. I’m not. Not yet, anyway. I’m working on it, though. Here’s the story. A couple of months ago, heartsick and frustrated by the state of the world in general and America in...
by Susan Matley | Jan 13, 2017 | Official Blog
So you think you know a few things. Not a lot of things, like how to perform brain surgery, but a few things you’ve known for years and accepted without question. This week I learned this is sometimes not the case. I’m talking about the Ten Commandments. No, this is...
by Susan Matley | Jan 6, 2017 | Official Blog
Micky, Davy, Mike, Peter. You know who I’m talking about! Hey, hey, check out the big, big Monkee-blog.
by Susan Matley | Dec 30, 2016 | Official Blog
In October 2015, following a battery of routine blood tests ordered by our excellent doctor, Justin Olswanger, O.D., I received a call from his equally excellent nurse, Lindsey, who dropped a bomb: I had come up with a high fasting blood glucose number – 110. High...
by Susan Matley | Dec 23, 2016 | Official Blog
Finding joy. In my Merriam-Webster Dictionary, joy is located on the page headed by “jounce” (meaning: jolt) and “juice” (meaning: juice). Joy is defined as “a feeling of happiness that comes from success, good fortune, or a sense of well-being” also “a source of...