by LivingROI | Aug 5, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, On Tuesday I drove 340 miles north from Santa Cruz, through the most traffic-congested parts of the Bay Area, to the small mountain town of Mt. Shasta. The town is an hour’s drive north from Redding, so I thought, incorrectly, that it would be beyond and...
by LivingROI | Jul 29, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, Do you get outside as much as you’d like to? Last week I learned that, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American spends 93% of their life indoors. Concerning, sad and not surprising. Most people work indoors, and work...
by LivingROI | Jul 22, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, One hundred years ago, Thomas and Katherine Fagan had their first of nine children on a farm near a small town in Wisconsin. They went on to have eight more children who, in turn, gave them 36 grandchildren. I am one of those grandchildren; nearly the...
by LivingROI | Jul 15, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, When I applied to Humboldt State University in 1982, I didn’t get in. Since the acceptance rate was probably upward of 80% (compared to between 5% and 12% for the most competitive schools today), not getting in was quite a feat. So, most people who...
by LivingROI | Jul 8, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, The concept of getting what you think about is not a new idea. In fact, the belief that our thoughts shape our lives has been around for as long as humankind has philosophized. As Earl Nightingale, author of “We Become What We Think About,” wrote in the...
