Posts by Dining Together Online

Don’t have to feel guilty about not wearing a mask Know that partner is benefitting too.You have agreed that it will be a positive experience for both of you. Agree that some topics are off the table. Aim for tasty, healthy so nutrition can be helping head and body too. Habits encourage happiness, calm, predictability,…

HE’S MY BROTHER:KEEPING IN TOUCH OVER THE YEARS AND MILES My brother and I have always been close despite living in separate time zones for the past 60 years. Over the years we have continued to talk every week or two over the phone and visited each other intermittently…more regularly since Mother died about 10…

IT IS THE BEST OF TIMES; IT IS THE WORST OF TIMES (Borrowing from Charles Dickens’ Novel – A Tale of Two Cities) Challenging assumptions, protocols, traditions, expectations, eliciting wide range of responses and actions. Who would have thought millions of children and their parents and grandparents would be Zooming online from grade school through…

Name three people you’d like to have dinner with.  Would you go to the same restaurant with each?  Would you order the same meal? Would the conversations be the same? How long has it been since you’ve been in touch with each? Is there someone you didn’t put on the list because you thought they…

DTO’s Contribution toHuman/Social Sustainability EARTH DAY 2020 – Seattle University April 22, 2020 Harriet Stephenson Are you finding these COVID-19 pandemic times to be particularly challenging? Could you use an additional coping “tool”? …Something that would take repurposing “one hour” a week that you already would be spending into a new experience. Today’s situation—Earth Day…