Kendal at Oberlin Blog

Looking for a delicious ethnic meal or cafe? You probably have a favorite go-to city or town. Ditto for eclectic shops, parks and cultural centers.

Women’s History Month in March is an opportunity for women to reflect on issues they dealt with and fought for during their lifetime, and how the landscape of women’s rights looks today.

I was a reporter in the Plain Dealer’s Lorain County Bureau for about 15 years. On a slow news day, we’d often drive south to Oberlin. “There’s always something going on there,” we figured. Usually, we were right.

With a vacation marked on your calendar, it’s time to start making piles and lists of must-have and to-do things.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — and Santa Lucia, Winter Solstice and Hanukkah — everywhere you go at Kendal at Oberlin.

It’s December, and the retirement community celebrates the holiday season in a variety of ways, including different languages, music, food and activities.

For young and old, many of our favorite holiday activities include music and lights, both indoors and out.

And for those of us who live in the Oberlin area, we have lots of activities to choose from.

When the snow starts to fly, lots of Midwesterners head south or to exotic islands. Understandable, for sure, but many of us, either by choice or necessity, stay closer to home.

Nathaniel Hawthorne pretty much sums up how I feel this time of year:

Sometimes we plan a vacation that is a trifecta: It energizes and refreshes body, mind and spirit.

Other times, a trip, whether for a few weeks or just a couple of days, evolves into an all-encompassing experience.

When my husband and I were younger, our vacations mostly centered around family fun, with some R&R wrapped in. Now in our mid-60s with a more flexible work schedule, we look at our getaways in a different way.