Becoming a mother for the first time is a life-changing experience. A friend of mine recently delivered her first baby and I couldn’t help thinking back to the time when I delivered my son. The excitement of discovering I was pregnant, the months that followed, the care involved until D-day when…
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“While there are lots of books available on retirement, the only book that really matters is the one that you write yourself”. What am I doing talking about retirement, aka the golden years? As far as I am concerned there’s no such thing. But a close relative of ours recently retired…
That thing called parenting. Joyful and wonderful? Yes. Lots of free time and rest and relaxation? No. It is a 24-hour job and we’d be lucky if we accomplished everything we’d planned for the day. Forget about “me” time. There’s just no time to even contemplate it, leave alone actually make…
No Sweat! How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness – a book Review Book description: We start out with the best intentions. We’re going to exercise more and get in shape! Then five days a week at the gym turns into two… then becomes none. We…
Last week, Janine Ripper was kind enough to invite me to guest post on her blog “Reflections from a Redhead” in her “life change artist series”. If someone were to tell me that they cried when they were diagnosed with a health issue, I would probably empathize but gently advise them…
There are times when that daily schedule can get out of whack and the best laid plans come to naught. No matter how hard you juggle, there are only 24 hours in a day and displacing one activity with another doesn’t leave time for much else. Add the sitting, the messy…
Toxic Lifestyle. Can’t say that has a nice ring to it, can you?But it is true. What with the current affinity for the fast food fad and somewhat sedentary lifestyle, more and more people are leading a toxic lifestyle. And you can’t always blame it on technology, right? There are studies…