I love all things health and wellness–and by wellness, I mean mind, body, and soul. I’m not an expert by any means, but I do have a lot of opinions–developed through study and personal experience. I share them here. I’d love to learn from your experience as well, so I encourage you to share anything and everything about health and wellness.
Live, laugh, learn, and LOVE. Value: Nurturing relationships When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your … [Read more…]
Live, laugh, LEARN, and love. Value: Life-long learning and growth There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti Since I … [Read more…]
Live, LAUGH, learn, and love. Value: Joy—mine and others Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Joy is not the absence of pain…light is not the absence of darkness…It’s not death we wish to avoid, but life we wish to live. ~Ayn Rand It’s ironic that the week I had planned to blog … [Read more…]
LIVE, laugh, learn and love Health and fitness Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~ Edward Stanley When I first started exercising and trying to eat right (that’s still a struggle for me—how I love my sweets…and my bread…and my cheese…and … [Read more…]
Are social media and our beloved mobile devices making us more or less connected? On the one hand, with all the distractions at our fingertips, it’s a lot harder to get or give undivided attention. Look around any public place—or private home, for that matter—and you’ll see people (probably lots of them) gathered in one … [Read more…]
Dead Last is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start. This week I officially started training for my first half-marathon in nearly four years. Yikes! I’ve run some 5k’s and 10k’s since then, but I thought I was done with halves. Now here I am preparing to do it again, and I … [Read more…]
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ~Sam Leveson Today’s blog continues with last week’s theme of time—only this time, I have a confession to make…I’m a habitual clock watcher. I’m the one sneaking a peak at my watch during a conversation, glancing furtively at the wall clock during a meeting, or … [Read more…]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! And yet, for many of us, one of the most stressful. We worry about getting the perfect gift for someone special, how much to pay for that perfect gift, and once it’s purchased, whether someone will steal it off the porch (or out of the car) before … [Read more…]
I’m a runner. I’m a writer. These things might seem like they are on the opposite ends of the spectrum. One is sedentary, solitary, usually indoors in my comfy clothes, sipping coffee. The other is active, surrounded by others, preferably outdoors, in my sportswear, grabbing quick gulps of water, if I’m lucky. Yet the two … [Read more…]
When you were a child, your mother, or a teacher, or some other significant adult probably told you, “You can be anything you want to be.” What was it you wanted to be? Movie star, doctor, fire fighter, president, Spiderman!?! Did you make it? If not, what stopped you? Maybe your dream has changed since … [Read more…]