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Volunteering: Why Should you get Involved?
Blue Zone Commitment to Involvement One of the components of the Blue Zone philosophy is volunteering: When we give unselfishly, we...
terri fitzsimmons
Apr 272 min read
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MESQUITE: MY NEWLY-FOUND PARADISE
MY NEW HOME As I sit on my back patio and overlook the magestic mountains and stupendous scenery (you have to be here to fully experience...
terri fitzsimmons
Mar 92 min read
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MAKE EVERYTHING AN EVENT
Dress Up Just Because So, the other day I continued to pamper myself at new favorite place in Mesquite - The View Salon. I am able to get...
terri fitzsimmons
Jan 242 min read
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A TOAST TO NEW BEGINNINGS
wee hours in the morning January 2, 2025 So, I literally started the new year with a bang! On January 2, Jim and I left our treasured...
terri fitzsimmons
Jan 172 min read
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a day to practice gratitude
What things do I have to be thankful for? Isn't this the question posed to us as we prepare to indulge in our Thanksgiving feast? Well, I...
terri fitzsimmons
Nov 28, 20242 min read
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BEYOND COPING
Weaving our way through life is anything but easy! Just when we think we have the universe figured out, WHAM! We get blindsided! Aging...
terri fitzsimmons
Sep 16, 20242 min read
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AND SO I BEGIN MY 75TH CHAPTER
In just a few days, I will begin a new chapter in my life. Once again, I have been reflecting on the past year of my life. And oh, what...
terri fitzsimmons
May 30, 20242 min read
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MY PEN REMEMBERS: Picking up where my illness left off
I can't believe it has been over three months since I have been writing! Yesterday morning I woke up as if I had been in an ongoing coma....
terri fitzsimmons
Feb 9, 20242 min read
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A TIME TO CELEBRATE
Today I have the pleasure of celebrating a dear friend's birthday. Now, I have only known Kris for a year, but already she has claimed a...
terri fitzsimmons
Oct 3, 20232 min read
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LIVING WITH A PURPOSE: Can it Prolong our lives?
The Japanese have a word for a sense of purpose "ikigai." (pronounced ick-ee-guy). The meaning is 'that which gives your life purpose.' ...
terri fitzsimmons
Sep 3, 20232 min read
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HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU HAVE?
What are you waiting for? I am aware of the number of years, months, days stretching ahead of me, far less than those behind me. I know...
terri fitzsimmons
Jul 24, 20232 min read
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YOU ARE HERE
You are here in the present moment. You can actually point to and feel exactly where you are. Visual depictions of destination points...
terri fitzsimmons
Jul 23, 20232 min read
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AND SO I BEGIN MY 74TH CHAPTER
Today I beginning the seventy-fourth chapter of my life. Yesterday I recaptured my adventures in my seventy-third chapter before I closed...
terri fitzsimmons
Jun 2, 20232 min read
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GO AHEAD. MAKE MISTAKES
If there's one thing I have learned as I got older, is that I will continue to make mistakes. There is no getting around it. Because I am...
terri fitzsimmons
May 7, 20232 min read
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THRIVING: IN A NUTSHELL
I have been on several podcasts lately talking about how to thrive after retirement. How do I condense my ideas into a twenty-minute...
terri fitzsimmons
May 2, 20232 min read
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NOODLE IN THE POOL
For the past month, I have been quite ill, bedridden with the flu which did not want to leave me! I tried everything from hot tea,...
terri fitzsimmons
May 1, 20232 min read
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FROM SUFFERING TO THRIVING
Sticking to a routine is not easy. Believe me, I have faltered so many times! But there is that voice inside of me that tells me I can't...
terri fitzsimmons
Apr 8, 20232 min read
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SMALL STEPS LEAD TO GIANT LEAPS
Since I started this blog I reconnected with a group of five women who have retired within the past five years. They have shared with me...
terri fitzsimmons
Apr 1, 20232 min read
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Why lead a mediocre life? Learn to go from being in a state of dis-ease to self-actualization
Dis-ease is a situation of unease; it is a body that is not at ease, which means that the body is not within proper function. Now, most...
terri fitzsimmons
Mar 30, 20232 min read
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How Can I avoid Pollution?
The other day I was walking with my friend when the conversation turned to all the evils in our world, from rigged elections to...
terri fitzsimmons
Nov 12, 20221 min read
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