At the tax preparation center today, I had an interesting client. He was a recent immigrant, a grad student, with no income and no reason to file a tax return. In fact, the electronic filing system we use will not accept tax returns if there is no income and no tax due or refunded. But…
On Tuesday and Wednesday, I attended leader training for another evidence-based healthy aging workshop. This one was Chronic Pain Self-Management, which is a variant (and very similar to) Chronic Disease Self-Management, developed by Stanford University. So the training was easy, and a little boring, since so much was similar to material I already knew and…
No, that picture wasn’t taken today – it’s from several years ago, but it was taken on March 13. A reminder that in spite of the foot of snow outside my door, we’re really getting close to spring. And I really need to start putting some time into my usual whirlwind of spring gardening activities.…
Woo-hoo! I just got back from making a presentation on our new condo web site to the Board. Most of them really liked it, except for a few old fogies that we need to drag kicking and screaming into the 21st century. I’m llooking forward to seeing where this takes us in the future. They…
I was back to the tax center on Friday, after taking a break for Boskone, and got immediately plunged into a whirlwind of interesting tax situations. The first customer wanted to file an amended return for last year because when she’d come in last week to do her 2013 return she learned about the Massachusetts…
We had an excellent 4th session of the diabetes workshop this morning. We’d missed last week due to weather, but had a good turnout today, plus three student nurses observing. One participant reported losing several pounds since the start of the workshop (“I wasn’t really trying, but I guess cutting down on sweets helped.”). Ya…