Articles by Sharon McMahon

“Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting…

“Long may you run, long may you run, although these changes have come.” – Young/Stills Longevity … a popular word these days. Would that I had a dollar (inflation, you…

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates Does anyone remember high school “health” class? My summer school health class was taught by a football coach…

“Environmental problems are really social problems. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims.” – Sir Edmund Hillary It’s a challenging world when we…

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others.” – Pericles Again this month a diversion from my…

“The stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” – Bruce Lee Although Bruce Lee succumbed at the early age of 32…

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.” – Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne Here are some sobering statistics for Americans: 30.7 percent are overweight; 42.4 percent are obese; 9.2…

“Me thinks that the minute my legs begin to move my thoughts begin to flow, as if I had given vent to the stream at the lower end and consequently…

“Sometimes a hard sacrifice must be made for a future that’s worth living.” – Tom Branson, Downton Abbey, Season Two Don’t we miss Downton Abbey and the engaging Tom Branson…