Defining your retirement identity Jennifer Gustafson, Community Outreach Manager, Neighbors Who Care Retirement is a much sought-after milestone. After an entire lifetime of working, it’s good to finally take things a bit easier. But retirement can also put us in a position of wondering who we are now and what our new purpose in life…
Jack Rubino Las Guias (“the guides” in Spanish) is the name of the docent program at the Heard Museum in Phoenix which focuses on American Indian and indigenous peoples art and traditions. I recently completed my first year as a member of this guiding group. The best part has been meeting all the different people…
Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D. Can anyone explain the pain of losing a child? Can anyone understand the torment that comes from the guilt associated with such a loss? Can anyone really explain the feeling of despair after realizing that a future has been destroyed? These questions come to the surface after the tragedy that we…
Doris Codkind, Publicity On April 13 at 7:00 p.m., our Shabbat service takes on a more somber note as the Sun Lakes Community joins together for this historic event of solidarity and worship. It commemorates the lives and heroism of Jewish people who died in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945. Clergy from five Sun…
David Zapatka Marilyn Courtot, a frequent guest on my bridge cruises, offers this month’s word of the month, excarnation. Excarnation – noun ex·car·na·tion ˌekˌskärˈnāshən Removal of flesh (as by putrefaction) especially from a corpse The act of a soul leaving the body after death Origin and etymology – Late Latin excarnatus, past participle of excarnare from…
Earth Day 2018 Pauline Lee Man’s wellbeing depends on a healthy environment. Thus, 20 million Americans from all walks of life launched the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, to call attention to environmental issues. While some progress has been made, plastics continue to damage our environment due to the growing world population and…