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Cat Talk Radio: Cat Tails – What Cats Are Saying With Those Flicks and Swishes
Cat Talk Radio with Molly DeVoss and Co-host Dewey
Cat Tails: What Cats Are Saying With Those Flicks and Swishes
Episode Description
Our friend Kim Pierce sent in some great questions about how cats communicate with their tails. The tail is the cats’ “sign language”; a portal to what they are feeling. It communicates everything from contentment to terror. Learn what the different postures and gestures your cat’s tail is trying to communicate to you.
About Molly DeVoss and Cat Behavior Solutions
Cat Behavior Solutions is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization saving lives through innovation and ingenuity.
This site, and the work of CBS is dedicated to reducing cat shelter surrender by correcting and preventing behavior issues in the home.
CBS’ resources include: Cat Talk Radio’s weekly behavior advice/education podcast, an information rich blog and social media, virtual and in-home consultations, educational seminars and speaking engagements.
Our vision is a world where every cat is treated with kindness and an understanding of its needs.
With better understanding of the domestic cat (Felis catus) owners will be able to provide the environment and stimulation their cats need, thereby eliminating and preventing unwanted behaviors.
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An LGBTSr Reader’s Guide to Some Common Issues for Older Adults
I’m always delighted when a reader of LGBTSr reaches out with an article or, in this case, an excellent annotated list of topics that our readers may find of interest. Thanks very much to Dan Hall for sending this to me. – Mark/Editor
Common Questions and Answers About COVID-19 for Older Adults and People with Chronic Health Conditions – From the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, this guide should be a go-to resource for seniors who have questions about covid, including its prevention, emergency warning signs, and treatment.
Seniors’ COVID-19 vaccine consumer guide – This article gives a great overview about the vaccine options. The bottom line: every adult should get one as soon as possible.
Staying Fit While Staying Home: Exercise for Seniors in Quarantine – It’s important for all of us to try to stay active for the sake of our physical and mental health, even if we’re homebound. The ideas and resources in this article offer great suggestions for seniors of all ages and abilities.
Financial help for older adults – This guide from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers an overview of assistance options for seniors who have experienced financial hardship during the pandemic. It also provides links for further reading on topics like financial planning and fraud prevention.
Reverse Mortgage Calculator – Many seniors are looking into reverse mortgages to help them free up funds for living expenses or healthcare costs, but it’s important to know what they involve so you can decide if they’re right for you. This tool explains in detail what a reverse mortgage is and helps you calculate what yours could be.
Mental Health and Coping during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic – During a crisis, it’s more important than ever to take care of mental health concerns, especially considering how much our emotional health may be impacted in such strange times. This guide will help seniors and others cope with stress, grief, and more during covid.
Socializing in Place: Tips for Older People to Stay Connected and Safe – Social isolation is a bigger concern for home-based seniors than ever. These great tips offer ideas on how older adults can stay connected while remaining socially distant from their loved ones.
Contributed by Dan Hall
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Senior Planet Offers Virtual Fitness and Wellness Events
Senior Planet, in partnership with AARP, offers a wealth of online events and opportunities to connect. You can find an extensive list of upcoming wellness events HERE.
Aging with attitude. Senior Planet from AARP harnesses technology to change the way we age. Our courses, programs, and activities help seniors learn new skills, save money, get in shape, and make new friends.
Senior Planet is about much more than just the latest gadgets and apps and websites. Those gadgets and apps and websites are just means to an end: enabling older adults and people of all ages to come together and find ways to learn, work, create, and thrive in today’s digital age.
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LGBTSr Gets a New Logo
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Tasty Pride Treats from MarthaStewart.com
MarthaStewart.com It’s June, the month for rainbows, Pride, and enjoying life – especially now that we’re getting back to some kind of normal. Follow the links for 15 delicious desserts from MarthaStewart.com. Make them, share them, feel the spirit.
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Every June, millions of people around the world celebrate Pride Month, which uplifts the LGTBQ+ community and honors the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City. From parades to workshops to concerts, this month offers us countless chances to spread the love. Of course, every celebration deserves delicious food: In honor of Pride Month, we’re sharing 15 multi-colored dessert recipes that you’re sure to love.
If there’s one dessert that’s practically made for Pride, it’s our 12-layer Rainbow Cake. It starts with a large amount of vanilla cake batter-five large egg whites keep the cake super moist and airy. Next, the batter is divided into sections and each dyed with every color of the rainbow. The layers are baked then stacked with a thick layer of our Lemony Swiss Meringue Buttercream between each. When this beauty is sliced, everyone’s jaws will drop as they see that delectable rainbow on the inside.
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On the Map: Laid Back in Lancaster County (PA)
This article is reprinted from LGBTSr.com
By Mark McNease
On the Map is a travelogue of places, restaurants and landscapes for your travel considerations. Sometimes near, sometimes far, always interesting.
The frequent sight of horse-drawn buggies clopping and rolling along the roads is a perfect image for Lancaster’s life in the slow lane. This is Amish country, something you don’t have to verify with a Google search because the evidence is all around you: in the buggies crisscrossing the roads, in the clotheslines with daily wash fluttering in the breeze, in the houses without electricity or cars. It’s a way of life that can be appreciated without being romanticized: the lives the Amish choose to live are not easy. They may look simple, folksy and nostalgic, but they are lives of toil and prayer. That’s my caveat – to remember when you visit that beneath the calm, relaxed surface of this country life are days of work from sunup to sundown, and a chosen detachment from the lives most of us live.
My husband Frank and I recently took our third trip to the Strasburg/Lancaster area. Frank had been there before we met, but it was all new to me. Three years ago he took me there for a surprise trip and we stayed at the Red Caboose Motel, where each room is a caboose salvaged from trains that stopped running long ago. There are small cabooses, medium-size cabooses, and large ones that can accommodate big families or friends traveling in groups. There’s a restaurant on the property, Casey Jones Restaurant, set in a replica of a dining car, with an attached gift shop. (We ate there on Monday, since it was one of the few places open that night.) I loved the novelty of it all, but there are a LOT of horse flies! Each room/caboose includes a fly swatter, and you will use them. This is not just Amish country … it’s horse country, too.
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On the Map: The Marvelous Morris House Hotel (Philadelphia)
By Mark McNease
On the Map is a travelogue of places, restaurants and landscapes for your travel considerations. Sometimes near, sometimes far, always interesting.
As the most restrictive aspects of this pandemic-burdened year begin to lessen, my husband Frank and I are hitting the road again. For now we’ll be taking local-ish trips we can enjoy with just a few hours’ drive in the car. We have a cruise booked for December that was postponed twice because of Covid and the inability of cruise ships to dock in U.S. ports (combined with our own significant concerns), and I’m looking forward to an extensive trip report when we finally board two weeks before Christmas. Cruising is my favorite form of extended vacation, so stay tuned for a late December travelogue.
This time we took a two night trip to Philadelphia. For a number of years now we’ve treated each other to surprise getaways. One of us takes the other on a trip, and the person being surprised does not know where we’re going. A few months ago I’d seen a recommendation for an outdoor classical concert “under the stars” in Philly, and thought it would be a perfect way to start getting out there again.
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On the Map: The Marvelous Morris House Hotel (Philadelphia)
By Mark McNease
On the Map is a travelogue of places, restaurants and landscapes for your travel considerations. Sometimes near, sometimes far, always interesting.
As the most restrictive aspects of this pandemic-burdened year begin to lessen, my husband Frank and I are hitting the road again. For now we’ll be taking local-ish trips we can enjoy with just a few hours’ drive in the car. We have a cruise booked for December that was postponed twice because of Covid and the inability of cruise ships to dock in U.S. ports (combined with our own significant concerns), and I’m looking forward to an extensive trip report when we finally board two weeks before Christmas. Cruising is my favorite form of extended vacation, so stay tuned for a late December travelogue.
This time we took a two night trip to Philadelphia. For a number of years now we’ve treated each other to surprise getaways. One of us takes the other on a trip, and the person being surprised does not know where we’re going. A few months ago I’d seen a recommendation for an outdoor classical concert “under the stars” in Philly, and thought it would be a perfect way to start getting out there again.
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Gay Travelers Magazine: We Must Never Forget that Being Gay was a Crime
This article is reprinted with permission from Gay Travelers Magazine.
Steven Skelley By Steven Skelley
Gay Travelers MagazineWe must never forget that, until very recently, just being gay was a serious crime that was punishable in horrific ways. It has only been eighteen years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that being homosexual was not a crime. It has only been six years since the U.S. Supreme Court barely decided by one vote that homosexuals must be allowed the same marriage laws as heterosexuals. How easily people forget.
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Gay Travelers Magazine: We Must Never Forget that Being Gay was a Crime
This article is reprinted with permission from Gay Travelers Magazine.
Steven Skelley By Steven Skelley
Gay Travelers MagazineWe must never forget that, until very recently, just being gay was a serious crime that was punishable in horrific ways. It has only been eighteen years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that being homosexual was not a crime. It has only been six years since the U.S. Supreme Court barely decided by one vote that homosexuals must be allowed the same marriage laws as heterosexuals. How easily people forget.
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Some LGBT Centers Offer Spring Awakening to Seniors
Photo from LGBTNewsNow Live music filled the courtyard of the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Anita May Rosenstein Campus on Thursday as pleasantly surprised senior clients lined up to pick up a free hot lunch.
The musical duo Chris & Drew performed for a full hour, including such classic songs as Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Happy Days Are Here Again, and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
“I think it’s great,” said Stewart Prosise, 73. “All kinds of musical numbers that bring back a lot of memories from many shows over the years. I’ve really been missing live theater.”
The special Lunch Box Serenade was part of an early celebration of National Honor Our LGBT Elders Day (May 16) and Older Americans Month. The outdoor lunchtime concert was an especially welcome surprise since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Center’s Senior Services department to host all of its classes and programs online for more than a year.
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Podcast Pick: Fearless Aging, with Rico Caveglia
Note: This is not an endorsement of the Rico Caveglia’s podcast, books or projects. I just enjoy listening to him!
I happened upon this podcast – maybe it was ‘recommended’ to me the way algorithms recommend everything to us these days, or maybe it was the universe seeking my attention – and I’ve been listening to episodes on my way to work. I like this guy! There’s something engaging in the way he talks about aging issues, keeping a positive and healthy state of mind, and generally living the best life we can. It doesn’t mean I agree with everything he says. For me it’s more about enjoying his voice and his opinions … some I take, some I leave. Give it a listen sometime.
Fearless Aging is about why and how to live a long healthy, fit, energetic and vital life and never be OLD at any age! My guests and I will offer you mind/body/spiritual proven tips and strategies that we guarantee will help you resolve most health challenges and age fearlessly and never be old.
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Spring Cleaning and Decluttering Tips
I don’t limit my spring cleaning to spring, but it’s always a good time to clean and declutter, especially now that we can open the doors and windows! Below are some tips from Nationwide. You can read all 22 of them at their site. Some you’ve probably heard before, some were new to me (socks as dusting mitts?).
Spring has arrived – which means it’s time to get your home in tip-top shape. A good, deep spring clean-up is a tradition that not only promotes wellness by keeping your environment clean and organized, it also helps carry the fresh-start feeling brought on by a new year well into the summer.
