by Guillermo Vidal | Feb 8, 2021 | Aging Well
While walking on the boardwalk that connects my townhome with nine others, I stopped to watch a spider busily building a magnificent web. Without warning, the wind picked up and started blowing the web back and forth like a trampoline. A few minutes later, a gust blew...
by Guillermo Vidal | Feb 1, 2021 | Aging Well
Life is full of important lessons. I remember how proud I was when I learned to drive a car, balance a checkbook, change my babies’ diapers. But these pale in comparison to the importance that the following six lessons have meant to my life. The “Big Six” (listed in...
by Guillermo Vidal | Jan 25, 2021 | Aging Well
If you are like me and been around the block a few times, then you have experienced some form of spiritual restlessness. I remember how scared I became the first time I experienced the kind of anxiety that comes from this unexpected internal upheaval. My first...
by Guillermo Vidal | Jan 18, 2021 | Aging Well
People use the phrase “you are perfect just as you are” to express appreciation for others. While it is kind to show others how much you care for them, it is wrong to think anyone is perfect. Perfection is an illusion, it has no definition, it is not an image fixed in...
by Guillermo Vidal | Aug 10, 2020 | Aging Well
I will never again experience the level of emotional pain I suffered the day I saw my parents disappear into the Cuban horizon as the plane I was on sped towards Miami from Havana. Starting my American life as an orphan in a Colorado orphanage was rough. Yet,...
by Guillermo Vidal | May 27, 2020 | Aging Well
One thing is sure about life transitions, especially those that include the loss of a job, a home or a spouse, they can leave you feeling like you have been body slammed. Life transitions have made me feel lost and insecure because they required dropping my old...
