X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. A friend on Facebook wrote this, “The month of November is National Adoption Month. The best decision I EVER made in my life was opening my heart up to the possibility that I could be a […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. When I was a young mother, the message that we received about keeping our babies safe as they slept was to have them sleep on their stomach. We also used crib bumper pads, small pillows, stuffed […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. I can almost smell the celery and onions sautéing as they await grandma’s stuffing recipe… Mmmmmm… Have you also been thinking about your Thanksgiving meal, either what you will prepare or what you will eat? Food […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. According to Wikipedia, a mulligan is second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong through bad luck or a blunder. Well, I’m taking a mulligan on my exercise routine! I was […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. National Family Week is an annual celebration observed during the week of Thanksgiving and is designed to encourage families to spend quality time together. It’s an opportunity to plan a variety of activities that encourage family […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. Handwashing is one of the best ways to avoid getting sick and spreading illness to others. Despite the importance of how people should wash hands many young and old forget. Germs are tiny microorganisms that exist […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. Your girlfriend wants to know who you have been talking to, your boyfriend texts you repeatedly to see where you are or to stay in touch, your partner uses words to put you down, your spouse […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. Many of us learned about cells in high school biology class. We learned that bodies are made up of different kinds of cells—skin, muscle, blood, etc. But most of us did not learn about the trillions […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. Poor nutrition + inactive lifestyle = childhood obesity. That is a very simple formula. Every day there is a new story in the media about childhood obesity. Obesity is running a close second to smoking as […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. I just came in from my exercise walk and I am reminded of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote, “The first wealth is health.” Exercise is a health issue. Many of us don’t see it in this way […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. We’ve all see the back-to-school commercials with joyous parents clicking their heels and dancing around with the mere thought of the start of the new school year. The reality is that August can be a very […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. What better way to comfort yourself on a chilly day than with the wonderful aroma of soup simmering on the stove? From hearty vegetable soups to creamy bisques to refreshing chilled soups; soup can be used […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. The Centers for Disease Control (2011) estimates that there are about 48 million cases of food borne illnesses every year. Fortunately, most of us can experience a foodborne illness with little or no symptoms. For others, severe cases […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. Life is short, sometimes shorter than we think. Forty one years ago this New Year’s Eve, my father died at age 52 of a heart attack. This was especially traumatic for me; I was a 17-year-old […]
