How I Get Up In The Morning I get up very carefully because when I wake up I usually have at least one cat asleep on me.  And another by my legs.  They act like it's a chore to get up and move so I can get up and move.  Usually in a hurry to go to the potty.  And the...

ED NOTE:  We had two wonderful student nurses with us every Thursday this year.  They did blood pressure and weight checks, consulted about meds and general health questions.  Both women fit right in and made a huge contribution. They will be away this summer and...

Something That Really Annoys Me - Laura Starbird Something that really annoys me is snow in April.  It should be a time of green grass and the first spring flowers, of bird song and newly opened leaves on the trees.  But this year Mother Nature played an April fools...

The First Paragraph of My Life Story... - by Laura Starbird My life didn't begin when I was delivered by emergency C-section after my mother hemorrhaged while scrubbing floors.  It didn't begin when I started kindergarten and had my first full-blown panic episode when...

Each Monday morning we have a Writing Workshop.  The women gather over "Marvelous Morning Munchies" (with real brewed coffee) and pick a topic to write about.  They write for 10 minutes, then read to each other what they wrote.  They then offer positive comments about...

My Favorite Animal -Kathy W At the moment, Rascal is my favorite animal.  She likes getting on my left shoulder.  Purr, purr, purr.  She goes to James for goodies.  When he rattles the bag she comes running.  She likes to play with straws and mild bottle caps.  She...

My Recipe For How To Have a Good Day -by Laura Starbird A heart full of hope, a soul full of joy, A sky full of sunshine for all to enjoy. A house filled with warmth from family and friends Where peace always rules and love never ends. A mind full of goals to reach...

Today is International Women's Day, which this year celebrates a 100th anniversary. From the IWD website: It is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and...

IN A PERFECT WORLD The Writing Group used a book by Robert Bender called Lime Beans Would be Illegal: Children's Ideas of a Perfect World. It is a wonderful collection of the thoughts of children about what a perfect world would look like. One of the members of the...

We had a great pumpkin carving party!  Two dozen pumpkins were donated by The Maine Apple Company in Monmouth.  [slideshow]

The Center for Wisdom’s Women, a drop in center in Lewiston, announces the celebration of its 2nd anniversary with an Open House on October 23 from 10:00-12:00. The Center was begun by The Daughters of Wisdom as Wisdom’s Center in 1999.  When it closed in June of...

In the course of one week, two women called The Center for Wisdom’s Women, nearly in tears, saying that they had found bed bugs on their beds. One of them within a week was finding bugs in other places. What to do? The Executive Director, Klara Tammany, remembered...