With the summer reading season about to begin, Liz Soares hopes more people pick up a book to broaden their knowledge, ponder big thoughts and process feelings and experiences.
Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Retirement is a journey, not a destination
Liz Soares talks about reckoning with the loss of identity in retirement.
Thinking Things Through: Living the gardening dream
Gardens are not static, and gardeners should not be either, Liz Soares writes.
Thinking Things Through: We need a handbook to navigate health care
Recent battles over prescriptions have led to eye-opening frustrations with the American medical system, Liz Soares writes.
Thinking Things Through: Confronting the possibility of cancer
Even as Princess Kate recently announced she was undergoing cancer treatment, Liz Soares recounts her own ordeal testing for thyroid cancer.
Thinking Things Through: Humbled by kindness shown after losing dog Martha
The thought that there are so many good people out there — all those dog, cat and horse lovers, plus all those who swerve for squirrels or move turtles off the road — is a warm, glowing bright spot for me, Liz Soares writes.
Thinking Things Through: Saying goodbye to a dog who lived a charmed life
Liz Soares recounts the life and final days of Martha, her 15-year-old Lab-pit bull mix.
Thinking Things Through: Sharp dressers are at the top of their game
Appearances count for a lot, as illustrated by a local school’s “Dapper Wednesday” movement that’s received national attention, Liz Soares writes.
Thinking Things Through: A storied history with ‘card catalog vintage’
Liz Soares mulls the evolving ways in which we can find and organize what we read.
Thinking Things Through: Watching the weather change
Liz Soares contemplates the accelerating changes of our climate and wonders if our attitudes need to change, too.