by Susan Barnes | 16 Jan 2023 | Short Devotion
“Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this...
by Susan Barnes | 13 Jan 2022 | Book Reviews
The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home by Joanna Nell surprised me. I was expecting a series of funny anecdotes about people in nursing homes. Instead, I found a sympathetic and moving account of the many difficulties that residents encounter, which wasn’t...
by Susan Barnes | 9 Sep 2021 | Book Reviews
Like Joyce’s others books, How to age without getting old is practical, easy to read and full of common sense. While there’s not a lot of new or previously unknown information in the book, Joyce is innately encouraging as she shares her own experiences of aging. I...
by Susan Barnes | 12 Nov 2019 | Articles
A snippet from an article I wrote recently for Christian Today. Over the last ten years, I have watched my parents age. They stopped playing golf and darts. They stopped looking after their garden and going on holidays. They ate out more often and stopped cooking...