LIVE INTERNET WEBCAST: Wednesday 10/15/08, 10-11 AM

Joyce M. Konczyk, LSW, Geriatric Care Manager/Virtual Media Consultant, with Janet Louise Gibson, Author, Editor, Educator and Executive Director of WiseLife Press, Inc.; and Barb Rode, LNHA, MS; Publisher; Administrator of Long Term Care for over 15 years; President and CEO of Saint Therese Home, Inc. for five years.

I received a message this week from an online reader who found one of John Mallo's columns on our Web site about Eden Prairie's McClay family, which lost sons in the Civil War and World War I.

http://www.edenprairienews.com/news/looking-back/eden-prairie-s-mcclay-f...

http://www.edenprairienews.com/continuing-story-eden-prairie-s-mcclay-fa...

She said that she had been researching her family history at www.myfamily.com and another family member had posted the article there.

Joyce M. Konczyk, LSW
Geriatric Care Manager
612.227.7414
joycek@helloworld.com
http://www.helloworld.com/joycek
http://www.jmkseniorconsults.com

Click "Play It" below to see/hear my video blog about senior resources panel presentations during Senior Awareness Month:
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Go to the city website for a complete guide to Senior Awareness Month: www.edenprairie.org

The 2 panel presentations are:
Thursday 5/8, 1:30-3 at Summit Place Senior Campus

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb

Every year, we make a vow to re-invent ourselves through silent resolutions. It's a noble gesture and some of us work very hard to turn those promises into a habit.

It's been said that you only have to do something for 21 days to make it stick.

Is this a ‘Family Dinner?’

It always sounds so good in the parenting books.

Raising little kids is fun, raising teenagers is a challenge but I don’t think that there’s anything that prepares a parent for the empty nester life, or what it’s like to parent adult children.

I am pretty fortunate in that all my kids have been reasonably good sleepers (taking after their mother, who has been known to sleep through fire engines and the shrieks of a terrified Girl Scout lead

Don’ t talk to me about sticker charts, or I might have to kill you.