Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 189 other subscribersCategories
- Addiction (2)
- Advance Directives (2)
- Adventures (7)
- Advocacy (201)
- Aging Sites (56)
- Animals (71)
- Architecture (14)
- Art (57)
- artificial intelligence (7)
- Books (36)
- Business (47)
- Caregiving (23)
- CCRC Info (17)
- Charity (6)
- Civic Engagement Group (14)
- Climate (32)
- Communication (60)
- Community Engagement Group (1)
- Cooking (2)
- Crime (34)
- Dance (12)
- Dementia (73)
- Dinning (1)
- Disabilities (17)
- drugs (8)
- Economics (58)
- Education (63)
- end of life (56)
- energy (6)
- Entertainment (31)
- environment (97)
- Essays (129)
- Ethics (29)
- fashion (1)
- Finance (31)
- Fitness (13)
- flowers (2)
- Food (39)
- Gardening (20)
- Gay rights/essays (3)
- Geography (2)
- Gifts (3)
- Government (432)
- Grief (19)
- Guns (28)
- happiness (68)
- Health (323)
- History (178)
- Holidays (28)
- Homeless (12)
- Hospice (3)
- Housing (10)
- Humor (140)
- Immigration (31)
- In the Neighborhood (139)
- Insurance (4)
- Justice (56)
- Kindness (49)
- language (12)
- Law (94)
- Legislation (2)
- literature (5)
- Love (2)
- Media (27)
- Memory Loss (3)
- Mental Health (23)
- Military (25)
- Morality (34)
- motherhood (3)
- Movies (5)
- Music (70)
- Nature (38)
- Neighborhood (1)
- nutrition (5)
- Obituaries (8)
- On Stage (2)
- Opera (4)
- Parks (17)
- Pets (3)
- Philanthropy (13)
- Philosophy (1)
- Photography (30)
- Plants (2)
- Poetry (23)
- Politics (197)
- Poverty (10)
- prayer (6)
- protests (30)
- Race (54)
- Recycling (3)
- refugees (1)
- Religion (52)
- Remembrances (16)
- Retirement (7)
- Safety (19)
- Satire (50)
- Scams (17)
- Science and Technology (55)
- Seniors (1)
- sexuality (1)
- Shopping (9)
- Singing (2)
- Skyline Info (24)
- sleep (2)
- smoke (1)
- Social justice (46)
- Space (3)
- Spiritual (5)
- Sport (6)
- Sports (29)
- Taxes (9)
- technology (8)
- terrorism (3)
- theater (5)
- Traffic (8)
- Transportation (22)
- Travel (7)
- Uncategorized (1,183)
- Vaccines (17)
- Volunteering (11)
- Voting (9)
- WACCRA (2)
- War (78)
- Women (8)
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 189 other subscribers
Author Archives: Jim deMaine
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Notes from Heather Cox Richardson (thanks to Pam P.)
Support for memory loss
The UW Memory and Brain Wellness Clinic is open for the needs of our patients, including visits by phone, video conference, or in person. If you have an upcoming appointment, you will be contacted beforehand to explore what visit format is best. Please check … Continue reading
Posted in Dementia
Comments Off on Support for memory loss
Pro or Con – make your opinion known
EOL Washington has proposed legislation to improve Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) care and access. See below.
Posted in end of life, Health, Law
Comments Off on Pro or Con – make your opinion known
It’s not over ’till it’s over
This is an interesting, even breathtaking couple of photos. l Be sure to read the 1st caption below the picture before going to the 2nd photo. Look closely at the first photo take your time, then scroll down very slowly… Look … Continue reading
Posted in Safety
Comments Off on It’s not over ’till it’s over
Édouard Manet’s Life in 5 Short Facts
Ann M. suggests that art lovers may enjoy this brief, free daily publication about artists and art history: https://mailchi.mp/dailyartmagazine.com/manet-the-white-lotus-botero-in-colombia?e=592b4e5f70 The email to subscribe is: newsletter@dailyartmagazine.com
Posted in Art
Comments Off on Édouard Manet’s Life in 5 Short Facts
ArtSEA: Flower power beats winter blues at Seattle galleries
by Brangien Davis in Crosscut Plus, new arts leaders take the reins at Pratt, Coyote Central and the Frye Art Museum. For a joyous and much-needed jolt from the January gray, step into Woodside Braseth Gallery, where an immersive explosion of … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Comments Off on ArtSEA: Flower power beats winter blues at Seattle galleries
It seems like yesterday
Thanks to Rosemary W.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on It seems like yesterday
Also, stay off ladders
Thanks to Sybil-Ann
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Also, stay off ladders
The causes don’t match either!
Thanks to Pam P.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on The causes don’t match either!
WE NEED MORE STORIES LIKE THIS
Thanks to Sybil-Ann
Posted in happiness
Comments Off on WE NEED MORE STORIES LIKE THIS
Trump Angrily Orders Pence to Return All Classified Documents to Mar-a-Lago
By Andy Borowitz in the New Yorker. Thanks to Pam P. “Mike Pence kept me from having a complete collection of documents, and that, quite frankly, is a disgrace,” the former President said.
January Skyline quarterly residents’ association meeting – on video
Thanks to Put B. and the staff To find the recent SRA quarterly meeting, one scrolls down to the section titled “Videos” on Caremerge and expands it to show subtitles. One of them is 2023 Videos, with a blue highlight … Continue reading
Posted in CCRC Info, Communication, Government, Skyline Info
Comments Off on January Skyline quarterly residents’ association meeting – on video
HB 1281 Protecting Access to Medical Aid in Dying
Thanks to Mary Jane F. HB 1281 Protecting Access to MAID Hearing Wednesday at 1:30pm We need your help! HB 1281, Protecting Access to Medical Aid-in-Dying, is scheduled for a hearing in the House Health Care … Continue reading
Posted in end of life
Comments Off on HB 1281 Protecting Access to Medical Aid in Dying
So just where are those six AEDs at Skyline?
If someone yells out, “Go get me an AED!” Are you ready to respond?
CPR and Defibrillators: What You Need to Know
By Gina Kolata in the NYT Before 1958, there was no such thing as CPR. If someone’s heart stopped because of cardiac arrest, that person fell to the ground, with no pulse, no breathing. And they were simply declared dead. All … Continue reading
Posted in end of life, Health
Comments Off on CPR and Defibrillators: What You Need to Know
How to safe a life in 90 seconds with CPR
This is a useful skill that able residents and willing staff should learn. As resident Leonard Cobb MD notes, learning this skill and having an AED may enable you to save a life one day. Some residents who are frail … Continue reading
Posted in end of life, Health
Comments Off on How to safe a life in 90 seconds with CPR
Don’t Try to Appease Economic Terrorists
By Paul Krugman in the NYT A few days ago I received an automated text from my bank. For some reason the bank’s algorithm flagged a valid charge on my debit card as potentially questionable; the text asked me to verify … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Finance, Government
1 Comment
Anderson Cooper Explores Grief and Loss in Deeply Personal Podcast
Ed note: Shakespeare’s 73 sonnet speaks of anticipating loss: “This thou perceivist which makes thy love more strong; To love that well which thou must leave ere long.” Grief surrounds us as we near life’s end. How do we deal … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Caregiving, end of life, Grief
Comments Off on Anderson Cooper Explores Grief and Loss in Deeply Personal Podcast
Where is heaven?
“Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.” Emanuel Swedenborg
Artificial Intelligence (AI) sites like ChatGPT raise many ethical issues
Thanks to Mike C. Ed note: For your information and entertainment do a search for chatgpt and sign on. Then ask it to write essays for you. The results may astound you.
Posted in Education, literature, Science and Technology
Comments Off on Artificial Intelligence (AI) sites like ChatGPT raise many ethical issues
Understanding the zeros
Thanks to Bob P.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Understanding the zeros