Massage Therapy During a COVID-19 Pandemic. Is it Safe? Heidi Overman, LMT There is a lot happening right now. We need to wear masks; we need to socially distance; we need to stay at home to stay safe. Anxiety is at a maximum and discerning what you should or should not do is exceedingly difficult. You need a…
Becky Kueker, SaddleBrooke resident, National Speaker and Author I stepped off the bathroom scale, looked in the mirror and thought, “Really!” That scale has been totally off the last two months so I knew it was definitely time for me to kick it to the corner and social distance. Or maybe I should move it…
Suzanne Marlatt-Stewart Senior Village of SaddleBrooke (SVSB) does not have a physical address. At this point in time, there is no central office. So, what happens when the Village receives dozens of phone calls each week requesting volunteer services? What is the procedure when a request is called in to the Village? To begin, a member…
Joyce Sutay We can all use something to help us smile amidst these trying times, right? Luckily for Unit 30, Independence Day has its very own Yankee Doodle Dandy. Our Mike Marshall was born in New York on the 4th of July in 1930. This year was certainly a landmark birthday for Mike, who recently…
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg Violet In 1985, a little-known film was released by the name of The Trip to Bountiful, starring Geraldine Page and John Heard. It is a fictional story of an elderly woman who lived for 15 years with her son and his crabby wife in a cramped apartment where the bickering is plentiful…
Sheilah Britton If you ventured from your shelter in place into Oro Valley or Tucson last spring, you might have seen a glorious array of flowering ocotillo in the medians of nearly every street you traveled. The slim, un-branched gray spires are covered in thorns and close green leaves and topped with tubular clusters of…