Time outdoors can benefit you in many ways. Just getting off the couch and getting out in the fresh air helps your mind and body. You can release the tension that your work can create. The change of light, as the days begin to lengthen, not only helps plants to grow but also can stimulate(…)
Perspective for mother’s on Mother’s Day, especially for working moms. We all have been born of mothers. Most of us have been raised and cared for by women and many of us have strong feelings for the women who have nurtured us through the many years of childhood. Mothers are not perfect or without faults,(…)
Our little note in appreciation of moms, in observance of Mothers Day, begins with an eye-popping statistic. It comes from the Harvard Grant Study, a groundbreaking project started in 1938 that has tracked the lives of male Harvard grads for an astonishing 75 years. Men who reported having “warm” childhood relationships with their mothers, the(…)
You probably don’t know this, but May 10 is national “Clean Up Your Room” Day. You may also not know that a messy room—or office, workshop, or entire house—is an actual cause of stress. Maybe you’ve had that feeling intuitively, but it’s more than that: It’s fact. Last year a team of anthropologists and archaeologists(…)
At Bucky we frequently talk about “the power of comfort.” With National Nurses Week approaching (May 6-12), we’d like to go a little deeper into that word while honoring some people who richly deserve our respect. And appreciation. For someone suffering from an illness, comfort isn’t an incidental matter. It’s certainly not trivial. The word(…)
Here in Seattle where Bucky resides, we’re especially conscious of the lengthening hours of daylight this time of year. Our rather northern latitude is pretty dark in the winter, frankly. On December 21, the winter solstice, the sun theoretically rises at 7:55 a.m. and sets at 4:21 p.m. We say “theoretically” because no one in(…)
