Karen McAllister, LMT

Karen McAllister, LMT The benefits of massage therapy: relaxes the body, eases pain. Massage therapy relaxes the body, reduces stress, eases pain aids in sleep

03/18/2025

CLOSED BUSINESS, Retired. Moved out of NY.

12/30/2024

"Some things really can change your life... I am blown away by what happened just now..
Today I decided to go play downtown San Diego by the USS Midway Museum. I arrived around 11:30 am and started my jam session. The music was flowing, my voice was strong and the sunshine came out quickly. The crowds of people who walked by me were giving today, throwing in a fair amount of cash and dollar bills as I played. I also noticed off to the right of where I was standing there were 3 men sleeping on the lawn and looked like they were homeless and or in need of help.
They sat up and listened to a few songs here and there, giving me a thumbs up and even smiling after I would finish a song. As time progressed the next moment changed my life..
Michael Briggs (the man who is left of me in the photo) walked up to me and asked if he could have 1 single dollar to get food, he said he already had two dollars and wanted to go down to the store and get a 3 dollar egg sandwich.
I looked at my cash bundle and I only had around 65 dollars in the guitar case at that point.
I told Michael..
“You can take all of it if you’d like”
Michael said “wait, really?” As he started to cry and say “why?”
I said “because you are hungry and In a few hours you are going to be hungry again, so you’ll need some extra cash to get a big meal”
Michael turned around and placed his hands over his face as he cried, my heart started to well up as I realized this man maybe eats once a day and has been struggling for many years now. Michael walked over to my guitar case and he took 1 single dollar, not all of it, just ONE DOLLAR 💵
He said “ I know folks who need this more then me, so because your a good man and wanted to help me, it’s only right I do what you did and help someone else”
Michael goes and grabs Stanley (the man to the right of me in the photo)
Stanley comes up and says “can I have 3 dollars for an egg sandwich “
I told him “you can have all of it if you’d like”
Stanley started to cry as well and also asked me “why”..
I said-
“I am going to treat you the same as I treated Michael, I don’t need to know you to care about you, plus you all have been very supportive of my music the last hour or so showing me some love”
Stanley goes and grabs only THREE DOLLARS and he says “is it okay that Michael and I distribute the money evenly between other homeless veterans we know?”
I asked “you all are veterans?”
Turns out every single man and women I met today in that group (which grew to 10 people by the time my conversation was done with them) we’re all Navy, Marine, Army and Air Force veterans and served for 10 to 25 years each.. one of which was a captain In the Army and had been shot multiple times in the back (he showed me his scars and photos of him in the military) He saved multiple lives during his tours.
Michaels son is a Navy officer. His son gives his father money monthly and pays for Michael to stay in a single room apartment. Michael says that a lot of the men and women in this group come stay with Michael in his 75 -100 square foot small room and they sleep on the floor and bed with him. Taking care of each-other every day.
Now the second half of the story is about a man who was watching this entire thing unfold and walked up to me crying, wiping his eyes, his name is Jeremy.
Jeremy said “do you see what you did, how one single act of kindness has blown up into a wave of giving”
Jeremy then handed me 30 dollars cash and said “you deserve to be taken care of as well” and walked away with a smile on his face.
I am blown away by what happened down by the USS Midway museum, meeting these amazing veterans has truly boosted every ounce of gratitude I have for my family, friends and my life partner Larisa. I am so provided for, I have everything I need and yes I am human and go through some challenges from time to time but really I am so provided for and have a beautiful opportunity to give and change lives when I sing and share what I love to do.
Thank you to the brave men and women who serve this country and to the men and women that serve one another every day, helping each-other smile.
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Credit Adam Kightlinger .







12/24/2024

By definition, a "White Christmas" requires at least 1" of snow on the ground at 7am Christmas morning. Most of the time, this is reasonably representative. But it does open the door for a few odd quirks (and I'm all about odd quirks). For example...

1. Christmas Day is 70° and sunny, but half a foot of snow fell on Christmas Eve. An inch of that snow survived the night to 7am, then melted by 8am and you're wearing shorts all day. That would qualify as a White Christmas.

2. A snowstorm occurs on Christmas Day but doesn't start until later in the morning. As a result, no snow on the ground at 7am. It then snows several FEET on Christmas Day. That would not qualify as a White Christmas.

Long story short, there is no part of the definition of a White Christmas that necessitates it actually snowing on Christmas. Only that there is at least 1" on the ground from...whenever. Weird, huh?

12/17/2024

Please be kind to others and to yourself.

11/29/2024

5 more days, and we will be on our way to our new house in SC

11/14/2024

Looking to sell my Oakworks massage chair. Very good condition. $100. Call or text 585-752-6654.

09/02/2024

Welcome to the Niagara Celtic Community: Home for All Things Irish, Scottish & Welsh in North America! We are the official site for the Niagara Celtic Heritage Festival, a family friendly event celebrating Irish, Scottish and Welsh culture in Niagara County, NY, not far from Great Lake Ontario.

08/07/2024

How about don’t do either and just drive? Someone is always texting at a light and still sitting there when it turns green. Must be nice to be so important that you don’t have to go on a green light. News flash, your phone can wait until you PARK

08/07/2024

Memorials can be placed on the soil. But can soil itself be a memorial? Battlefield memorials exist to remember the actions of the brave men and women who fought for a cause. But many forget that they are also the resting place of many of these persons.

Today is the 247th anniversary of the Battle of Oriskany, considered one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution. The aftermath left the Mohawk Valley forever changed by grief and loss. Because of the ongoing conflict and the shear numbers of dead, the vast majority of the fallen were never buried, let alone returned to their loved ones. From an account by Peter J. Dygert of the Tryon County Committee of Safety: “Concerning the battle: On our side…the wounded were brought off by those brave men; the dead they left on the field for want of proper support…”

Historic accounts say that remains were found from Oriskany Creek to west of the Oriskany Battlefield State Historic Park. It seems that the majority of bodies were never buried and left to decompose on the surface with natural processes working to bury the remains. Oral tradition and some newspaper reports state that burial details were sent into the area after the war (and in succeeding generations) and note that early settlers gathered the bones to inter in a common grave. But no official accounts recording these actions have been found to date. With the abandonment of the Mohawk Valley beginning around 1780, the use of the military road associated with the battlefield probably had little use until after the end of the war. By the early 1800s, farms sprang up in the area of the battlefield. The landscape was clear cut to develop agricultural fields. In the process of the clear cutting, numerous human remains related to the battle were uncovered.

The shock and terror of the battle aftermath was recalled by several witnesses and records in the days, weeks, and even years following the end of the battle. What follows is the graphic, but true, recollections of some of the witnesses.

The Seneca Warrior Blacksnake recalled: “There I have Seen the most Dead Bodies all it over that I never Did see, and never will again.”

Continental Soldier Frederick Sammons described the condition of the battlefield as he saw it shortly after the fighting as, “I beheld the most shocking site I had ever witnessed. The Indians and white men were mingled with one another, just as they had been left when death first completed his work. Many bodies had also been torn by wild beasts.”

Later in life, Nicholas Stoner was asked to share his recollections, which included the following: His legs were so swollen, that his deer-skin breeches were rent from top to bottom. Nine dead bodies lay across the road, disposed in regular order, as was imagined, by the Indians after their death. The stench was so great that the Americans could not discharge the last debt due their heroic countrymen, and their bones were soon after bleaching upon the ground. A little farther on, an Indian was seen hanging to the limb of a tree by the heels. He was suspended with the traces of a harness from a baggage wagon by the Americans, as believed, after death....”

The next time you visit the memorial, it should be noted that it is not just the stone monuments, but the earth that you walk on in which the fallen were forever interred.


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The benefits of massage therapy: relaxes the body, reduces stress, aids in sleep and eases pain.

I started receiving Massage Therapy on a regular basis after receiving a 15 minute chair massage, and leaving pain free. I decided to try massage therapy instead of PT. I had been going to PT for 3 years, and it did not help. When I was laid off my job, I decided it was time to give back. I went to massage school, passed my NYS Boards, and have never looked back.

I love making people feel better.