Dr Jerry Elrod's Senior Moments Blog

    Seniors: How to Keep Your Good Side Good

    Aging presents opportunity and temptation in equal amounts. Choosing opportunity for good is likely the better course to take than temptation, which may be fraught with precarious and unknown dangers.

    Opportunity presents both positive and negative options. Here, let us talk about the positive. Keeping your Good Side Good. Let’s explore some practices which render themselves healthy to your state of mind, attitude, behavior and your all around good side.

    First, how do you begin your day? Evaluating your first thing in the morning attitude and those behaviors which complement it is a good place to start. Choosing behaviors that will set you on a course toward a good day will likely pave the way for how well you succeed in planting the seeds for a day that will be good, productive

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    About Jerry Elrod

    Writing became a passion for Jerry, when in school he edited the high school weekly paper, moved on to college where he was editor of The Megaphone at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, and served on the staff of the Perkins' School of Theology, SMU, paper. Throughout his 40 year career in the United Methodist Ministry, he was involved in editing periodicals, authoring weekly columns and preparing sermons and speeches.

    Jerry's final appointment before retirement was at Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist Church in Sun City West, Arizona. He served as Senior Pastor there for four years. In retirement, in search of a stimulating pastime, Senior Citizen Journal was created. Jerry's principal role has been composing a daily feature under the rubric Senior Moments .

    Jerry retired as a United Methodist minister in 1997. He has served as interim pastor off and on over the past several years. Spouse, Sharon, is also involved in the Journal. She is an author in her own right, having written "Shar's Story, a Mother and Daughter Reunited," and Co-Authored "My Dirty Little Secrets - Steroids, Alcohol and God, The Tony Mandarich Story".

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