Episodes
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SPIRITUALITY MATTERS
This is my last show for WSLR. I'm taking a break to explore other new adventures. This really is a double show. The first half is an exploration, with friends Joanne and Gail, about spirituality. The second half is friends Joyce and Renee talking not about our books, but about what we learned…
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BALI MATTERS - Part 2
This episode of Gray Matters is "Bali Matters: Part II." Your host, Jean Peelen, spent almost a month on the wonderful island of Bali. Although the beauty of Bali, the amazing artistry that is everywhere, the vibrant Hindu religion, and the sweetness of the people is entrancing, it also was clear...
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BALI MATTERS - PART I
I recently returned from three wonderful weeks on the island of Bali - only 26 hours away. Argh! There aren't words to tell how beautiful the island and the people of Bali are. Being there, around their culture, was beyond my experience. I talked for this show with two wonderful people: Wayan…
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BRAVE NURSES MATTER
I've always thought that nurses were brave simply because they dealt with human beings, with all of our bodily yuckiness. But recently I talked with three retired nurses who truly were brave, in the sense that they struck out in the world in times when women just didn't do that. These women were...
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Dreaming of Music Matters
Andrea Ross Greene is a friend of mine. She left the east coast for sunny California to pursue her dream of singing and songwriting. She writes beautiful music and performs it for appreciative audiences. Andrea's music and rich voice have been used in independent films. Her songs capture...
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Waking Up and Shaking Up the Dreamer Inside
Last month I was asked to speak at a fund-raising brunch for the American Association of University Women. I spoke about waking up your vision for your life. This is a recording of that speech, with the addition of comments about the role of vision by co-authors and friends Renee Fisher and Joyce...
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Cruising Matters
This week's show was recorded aboard the Royal Caribbean ship The Monarch of the Seas. I went for a four-day cruise with my sister and her husband and had a wonderful time. I decided to take the time to interview both the Cruise Director and a passenger who seems to cruise non-stop. Hope you…
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MONEY MATTERS
Money is what Matters on this week’s Gray Matters: Changing the Conversation About Aging. Money makes the world go around for sure and sometimes, as we age, money is a difficult subject for us. We come from a generation that never spoke about money—our own money—to others. For many of us money is...
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ALTERNATIVE HOUSING MATTERS
As we age, we all think about how we will be living in the future. Our future. We all know about living alone and about living with our children and about living institutionally in independent or assisted living. So the question is: Are there any other choices? And the answer is: possibly. There…
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Alternative Doctors Matter
It is no secret that the system of medical care in this country is broken. Human contact, yes even friendship, between a doctor and his/her patients is a thing of the past. Insurance companies run the way medicine is practiced, and that is not a good thing. In this episode I talk with two doctors...
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LAUGHING MATTERS
In a departure from our usual more serious topics, on this show we talk about laughter. I spoke with the owner of a comedy club who himself is an experienced stand-up comedian. In between making me laugh, he talked about comedy and about the classes in stand-up and improv he gives which are...
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EX-PATS MATTER
The theme of this episode is "Ex-pats Matter." An ex-pat is someone who chooses to live outside of his or her own country. We talk with three ex-pats, two Americans and a Brit, about what led them to live with "strangers" and why they continued to do so. We also get some darn good advice from them!
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VIETNAM MATTERED
Hello hello hello - welcome back to Vietnam. This episode of Gray Matters is "Vietnam Mattered." John Shapiro, my long-time friend, tells his experience of Vietnam. It is a unique one that you don't hear very often. For John, Vietnam was a testing time in which he could discover himself as a…
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FREEDOM MATTERS
This is a very special episode of Gray Matters. While in Prague recently I recorded an interview with a wonderful man who is living history. Pavel Pechacek was born under nazism, lived under communism, and was instrumental in creating democracy in then Czechoslovakia. He worked for many years for...
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CAREGIVING MATTERS
This episode of Gray Matters is called "Caregiving Matters." I talked with two women who began as caregivers for loved ones, and have moved on to facilitating caregiver support groups. I then spoke with the Director of the Caregiver Resource Center at the Sarasota Senior Friendship Center. An...
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MOVEMENT MATTERS
This episode of Gray Matters is "Movement Matters." In the second half of life, we become increasingly aware that our bodies are not machines that will run forever, and we simply ignore them at our peril. Our bodies are gifts, and we are responsible for keeping them (aka ourselves) strong and...
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TRAVEL MATTERS
"Travel Matters" is the subject for this week's Gray Matters. First, we talk with an amazing woman named Jackie Meaker. Jackie is 78 years old and has so far traveled to 124 countries--and she's not done yet. Then we talk with Lynne Anast the head of the Road Scholar program at the Sarasota...
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VISION MATTERS
Vision Matters is not what you might expect. It is a show about sight, or the lack thereof. We talk with two amazing men, Bill Shearon, who has limited vision that began fairly recently. After Bill began losing his sight, he served on the city commission in his town. He and his dog Levitt are a...
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PUBLISHING MATTERS
Publishing Matters is a follow-up to Writing Matters - the last Gray Matters show in which we spoke with writers about how and why they write. In this show, we speak first with my co-authors Joyce Kramer and Renee Fisher who went the "publish on demand" route when publishing "Invisible No More…
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WRITING MATTERS
I just LOVE this show, and I thank Dennis Blanchard, author of Three Hundred Zeros, for technologically saving my butt by recording it at home and sending it to me. I WILL own this technology yet! On Writing Matters, I talked with three writers: a poet, a non-fiction writer, and a mystery fiction...
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MEMORIES MATTER
This week on Gray Matters the topic is "Memories Matter." For some of us seniors, Alzheimer's disease is a frightening yet possible future. It is time to stop avoiding the subject and, instead, consider how we can know whether we are developing Alzheimer's, whether we can avoid it, and what the...
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Environment Matters
GRAY MATTERS: Changing the Conversation About Seniors This week on Gray Matters the topic is “Seniors Supporting Our Environment.” First, we talked with Joe Greeley. Joe is the Director of an exciting new Sarasota Program called “Retirees in Service to the Environment.” Next, we spoke with Suzie...
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DOGGIES MATTER Part 2
Hope you listen to part 2 of "Doggies Matter." If not, you will miss some good stuff!
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DOGGIES MATTER Part 1
This week, Gray Matters is in two parts due to the technical inexperience of the creator. (Wonder how much longer I can use THAT excuse?!) Do hope you listen to both parts of "Doggies Matter." This week Gray Matters - the show for Sarasota seniors - is going to the dogs. There can be a strong and...
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Housing Matters
It’s clear that where we seniors live is completely dependent on our finances and the economy. On Housing Matters, we talked first with a realtor who specializes in assisting seniors who are ready to down-size from their long-time homes, then with the administrator of an independent living…
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