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What is it about habits that they can make you feel so good while you are routinely doing them and so bad when you fail to do them?  They are magical, little, repetitive routines that can build strength both physically and mentally, and yet if anything disrupts them we feel ashamed, at a loss, incomplete, […]

During the last few weeks, I took time with my family to plan and take a trip of a lifetime: a very long and first family road trip.  It may sound like a Griswold family vacation, but it was better than that, believe me.  After so many months of seeing the same sidewalks, same walls, […]

During this pandemic, with limited abilities to get out and about, reading has become my refuge.  The sudden and fear-inducing situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in March led me to think of other difficult times in our nation’s history, specifically World War II.  I wrote about this in my Coping Mechanisms article – see my […]

It may just be the pandemic fatigue setting in, but there is something about gardening this year that is offering more self-satisfaction and happiness.  It is refreshing to create life with these small blooms and fight for victory against the shutting down of our lives by the coronavirus.  Although not with the same dire needs […]

During this pandemic, I’ve noticed a lot of articles about sleep issues.  I understand.  I am right there with you.  It is a difficult time to feel settled enough to fall asleep and sleep peacefully through the night without any wake-ups.  I set out to find ways to increase sleep quantity and quality.  Here is […]

This state of pandemic is not going away and seems to have settled in for a long duration – longer possibly than I would like to anticipate, think about, or project.  So how do we cope?  As an attorney, writer, parent, now home school teacher, and any other myriad other roles any of us have […]

Well, we are still here.  Staying at home.  Teaching our children.  Face-timing our parents.  Zooming with family and friends.  Nothing feels the same and yet everyday seems the same.  More and more the time is passing without any certainty on when this will end.  This week especially time has started to catch up with me, […]

            Here we are at the end of another week of sheltering at home.  I think the news this week of schools continuing to be shut down until May 1st in Illinois was a big hit of reality for all of us to take in and digest.  I can definitely say I was holding out […]

This has been an unprecedented past two weeks. I can’t say that any of the measures that have been put into place could have been expected or prepared for, but at this point, we all need ways to maintain our well-being while sheltering at home. Right now, as I write, my son is calling me, […]

If you are a regular reader of Keen Living, you noticed that there was no posting last Friday on March 6th. My goal for writing on Keen Living is to post every Friday. I had hoped to post my article that I just posted today on expanding CLE topics, but it never happened. What happened? […]