Volunteers, organizations need matchmaker

It’s my opinion (you’ll find I have a lot of them) that emotional health is at least as important as physical health. In fact, I believe that you cannot have one without the other.

One of the activities that sustains my emotional health is connection with a community. This community could be a small town, such as Odessa, or a church, civic group, 12-step program or any other group of people you have something in common with.

Long ago, in some self-help session I attended, we were given an exercise. We were told to draw a circle and put our name inside it. Then we drew circles that intersected...