There are support groups for many issues, but until I, myself, was in need, I never gave much thought to what they can provide. We have watched television and ...
Category: Slice of LIfe
SLICE OF LIFE: COVID-19, National Lipstick Day, And Missing Smiles! by Ellyn Mantell
As I write this article, amidst the pandemic, I am feeling a little cranky, sad, frustrated and anxious, and if I let my mind wander, worried and actually, scared. ...
SLICE OF LIFE: Loneliness Is A Heart Breaker
BY Ellyn Mantell Perhaps the emotion that can create the most sadness is the feeling of being lonely. Different than being alone, being lonely feels as if there ...
SLICE OF LIFE – Country Living In The COVID Era
By Ellyn Mantell Living in New Jersey is experiencing the yin and yang of life on a good day. We live in the most densely populated state in the ...
SLICE OF LIFE: GRIEF HAS NO SCHEDULE by Ellyn Mantell
A few months ago we lost our nephew to a dreaded disease, very swiftly and with no knowledge of what was to come. Initially, we were told he would ...
A Loving Legacy by Ellyn Mantell
Never have I been part of a larger, more extensive legacy of LOVE! My dear friend and Chosen Sister, Wendy Piller, is gone, and in her place, there is ...
Running Into The Wind
By: Ellyn Mantell I am lonely today. It is a Saturday, but it could just as easily be a Monday or Wednesday. It is not because I don't have ...
Slice of Life: Being a Humanitarian
Looking ahead to college meant deciding what I wanted to do with my life...that looming question, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" I was quite ...
Slice of Life – Appreciation
Ah, the double-edge sword of aging...on one hand, wrinkles, grays, aches and pains! And on the other, the wisdom gained as the decades pass, providing us, if we are ...
I Will Miss You, Philip Roth
 Philip Roth was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, considered by many to be a national treasure, having received almost every literary award presented to a writer. I ...