Technology | Sheila Collins

How To Be Smarter Than I Am

by Sheila Collins | Jun 17, 2021 | Art & Life, Dances, Gatherings, Improvisation, Personal Stories, Play, Technology, The Art of Grieving

I was literally dancing in my kitchen last Sunday morning, clutching a newspaper article to my chest. I was celebrating that there is finally a name for what I’ve been doing for half a century. As a teacher and therapist, as a college professor, and more recently, as...

Who is Curating Your Life?

by Sheila Collins | Feb 25, 2021 | Art & Life, Environment, Technology

A number of years ago, while I was in the process of writing my mother’s memoir, I spent five summers attending the Iowa Summer Writers’ Festival in Iowa City. One of those visits occurred just after a major flood had decimated the campus, leaving piles of sandbags...

Want more ease and enjoyment while stuck at home? Try some artful play.

by Sheila Collins | Feb 11, 2021 | Art & Life, Community, Gatherings, Improvisation, Personal Stories, Story-telling, Technology

Looks like it’s still gonna be awhile before we can move about our communities and our country freely. One type of experience I’ve been missing especially is being able to attend plays, dance concerts, and performances of live music. We’ve been lucky to have...

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Stronger?

by Sheila Collins | Jan 28, 2021 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, Resilience, Technology

I have an anniversary coming up, as do you. Depending on where you live in the country, or what country you live in, your anniversary date might differ a bit, but mine is the middle of March. As I write this it comes to me that March 15 was in Roman times, the Ides of...

Our Illusive Fitness Levels

by Sheila Collins | Sep 17, 2020 | Health, Health and Wellness, Resilience, Science, Technology and the Environment, Self-Care, Technology

I described it as a “hitch in my get-a-long,” this limping ouch that seemed to be calling to me recently from my left hip. My friend Christine, who just returned from traversing much of the country while seated in a car, mentioned she was lying on the floor during our...

Body-Wise On-Line

by Sheila Collins | Aug 6, 2020 | Art & Life, Community, Family, Gatherings, Personal Stories, Technology

Many of us, whether as students doing schoolwork, or professionals working from home, or family members and friends trying to connect and celebrate with one another from a safe distance, we’ve all been spending lots of time in front of our computer screens. I’ve heard...