Sound familiar? You’re invited to experience… Overcoming Inconvenience Let’s make it easy and fun with many hands and great laughs, to nourish our families with smiles and whole, real food. Putting together several meals at a time is a great convenience during the week. Learn how to cut up a chicken, stage the preparation and […]
Discipline takes different forms. Holding the kiddos accountable, yes, but the more difficult job (for me) is staying out of their learning process when better teachers, like experience, take the podium.
The New Year always promises to be a special time for me; I love beginnings. Being a start-up kind of person, I’m charged by the creative process whirling around before the real work begins. Clean slates and fresh starts offer time for dreaming, visioning and setting the course for navigating through our next segment of […]
Halloween, that major marker of the year, which is quickly coming to a close, has left its candy wrappers, costumes and moldy jack-o-lanterns in its wake. One slow blink and Thanksgiving will arrive with feasts to be followed by festivities of Light to brighten the darkest days of the Northern Hemisphere. With all the opportunities […]
Time, once measured by shadow, now by milliseconds, divides winner from loser, timely from tardy and now from any other point on the clock. Yet we are all granted the same playing field, available equally, to each of us on a daily basis. So why is it that this time of year, every year, we […]
When I was a child, story time was among the most restorative and intimate times of my youth. Curled up close to my mother, hearing her musical tones as she read aloud, I knew the story would end well and my nightmare of “regular” life would abate for a time. Daniel Siegel, well-known author and […]
Diet soda, anyone? Calories are not the biggest concern when sweet hits the palate. Science News has published some interesting new research. While the wonders of modern chemistry may have separated sweet from calories, our ancient metabolic design doesn’t know the difference. What caught my eye among the loads of information collected here was the […]
On a recent trip to the lovely Italian coast, my friend posed this question to local residents, “What do you spend your money on?” Their reply, “Holidays and beautiful vegetables.” Coincidentally, at about the same time another friend sent me a breakdown on U.S. consumer spending. Discovering what U.S. citizens spend on food today, I […]
I have a lovely scale in my bathroom and am amazed that when I step on it and loose even ½ lb, I’m elated. However, when I gain or even stay the same on that weight measure for longer than I think I should, I’m sunk, sometimes for the whole day. Why don’t I lose […]
Vitamin D has been in the news lots lately, I’m on the bandwagon to get the word out as I can attest to how much better I feel with more vitamin D and encourage others to do so. Not to belabor the point, below is a brief rundown from Dr. Ray Strand’s latest edition of […]
