It’s apparent, I have a love/ hate relationship with maintaining a healthy weight. I’d love to have less stress on my joints, heart and lungs – who wouldn’t! But I hate the time it takes and the refocus on my eating habits that it requires. Weight management is not rocket science – I need to eat less and move more. Why is that so hard to figure out? I am more than capable of solving this dilemma, yet you might as well put a complex physics problem in front of me and ask me to figure it Continue Reading
What Will The Whack-a-Doodles Do?
It was a dream of epic proportions that lasted about three years. Not the kind of dream that crept into my subconscious during a deep sleep, but rather, a fire in my belly that beckoned “I wonder if…” This was a dream that was fueled by outdoor living magazines in my dentist’s waiting room; it caused me to have flare ups in meetings and lose focus, and it was fanned by stories of people I know who have turned their worlds into lives of wonder and discovery from the comfort of their swivel seats Continue Reading
My Affair to Remember
I guess you don’t have to be a Tea Party politician or an ultra-conservative family right’s activist to get caught with your pants down, so to speak. But these two stories have made me ponder my own recent affair, and it’s time to come clean. Let me start by saying I’m so sorry I was caught… I mean, I am so sorry for my family and my friends, especially Fall, Winter and Spring. I have been such a hypocrite, and I know I have damaged some relationships, and abused your trust, but I hope you can Continue Reading
Get Your Camera Out – There’s Still Time
I’m the first to admit, it was probably a fairly insensitive topic to bring up, especially while we gathered for my sister’s 70thbirthday soiree. But it was a good assembly of family members, so I threw the question out there – “Do you have your obituary photo picked out yet?”Now realize, these were my family members, ranging in age from 40 - 68, and I knew the response I would get before I asked, and I wasn’t disappointed – plenty of chuckles and guffaws as we dove into the topic. Just for the Continue Reading