Sometimes I amaze myself.  Seriously I didn’t know it was possible for one person to eat half their body weight in stuffing at one sitting.  For as long as I can remember, I’ve stuffed myself with stuffing and other festive foods every Thanksgiving.  Every year.  The night before I always tell myself this year is […]

I’ve missed you and I’ve missed blogging. I thought Thanksgiving would be a perfect day to get back to blogging.  There’s nothing like eating 4000 calories then sitting down at my laptop to pontificate on and on about the importance of sane meals.  😉  Seriously, I was thinking about all I have to be thankful […]

You may be familiar with Stephen Covey’s rock analogy.  If not it goes something like this. Take a jar and fill it halfway with sand.  Next add some small pebbles.  Is is full?  Now try to squeeze some big rocks on top.  Do they  fit?  Probably not….at least not very many.  It’s an object lesson […]

We returned home from the Sequoia National Forest Monday evening.   Our trip was lovely.   I’m missing the simplicity of our days spent under the majestic  trees.  A full grown Sequoia is quite a sight to behold.  And since I’m prone to seeing the world through analogy, their massive thousands-of-years old trunks spoke to […]

Today we are going to the Sequoia National Forest.  We are going to the same campground that we visited  last year where we had a fantastic site.  Not only were we surrounded by dozens of beautiful Sequoias, there was a great hill right behind our site that I used for my workouts.   This time […]

Like many girls my age Dirty Dancing is a nostalgic peg of my youth on which some fond memories of adolescence hang. I was too naive to even pick up on the questionable choices of some of it’s characters.  Instead, I resonated with Baby’s careless sense of adventure and her feelings of being a misunderstood […]

I try not to compare myself to others because…well…I just don’t think it’s a good habit.  At best I tell myself I’m not doing that bad, at worst, I get depressed or cocky. Neither is lovely.  Not at all.  Most of the time if I compare myself to others I start to feel like I’m […]

(source) I just finished 30 days of no-grains experiement  last week.  Surprisingly it wasn’t that hard although I wasn’t perfect.  I never am.  I ate popcorn a couple times and told myself it was a vegetable even though I know it’s not.  In an emotionally weak weepy moment, I comforted myself with a slice of […]

Last week, we discovered a leak in the gas line at our rental property.   To save money, my husband helped dig the trench for the plumbers and after it was fixed I was commissioned to go fill the trench back up with dirt. As I was shoveling the dirt  I started to think about […]

It’s not just me, those other “health nuts”, or dentists who think Americans need to reduce their sugar consumption.  The American Heart Association released a statement on Monday saying sugar can contribute to heart attacks.  From CNN.com (CNN) – A sweet tooth could lead to a heart attack, the American Heart Association warns. Americans are […]