Here’s a big surprise (not): your diet influences the health of your skin. Besides the natural aging process, other factors that affect our skin include sun exposure, alcohol consumption, stress, smoking, high intake of processed foods, dry weather, certain soaps. Dairy products and whey protein have been...
You’re probably thinking that I just celebrated my birth month. And I did. One year ago. Already. How quickly the years go by. I recently read No Regrets: A Fable About Living Your 4th Quarter Intentionally by Allen Hunt and Matthew Kelly. No Regrets is about a woman...
For those of you who are doing some sort of Lenten fast, you are almost complete. We have much to celebrate this Easter Sunday! Whether you’ve given up sweets, alcohol, toxic people, television, Facebook, meat, or a multitude of other possibilities, you’ve had the fortitude (and...
I don’t think I’m alone in feeling very sad about the events happening in our world today. It’s heartbreaking. We wish we could do more. We wish we knew what to do. We wish and we pray, and it is the season of Lent. For those of you...
We are on week #33, counting down with my expectant friend. As some of you know from experience, she is getting pretty uncomfortable. My prayer for her, and her dear hubby, is a restful night’s sleep BEFORE the little one arrives. We’ll keep this quiet—but once baby...
At week #27 baby is the size of… …a head of cauliflower. Most of you know that I do not care for this vegetable. I’ve tried. Truth is that cauliflower is very beneficial for good health. It contains some of almost every vitamin and mineral you need....
At week #26, baby is the size of a scallion. The first question that popped into my head is: What’s the difference between a scallion and a green onion? Scallions are the younger version of green onions. The bulb of a scallion is about the...
Cauliflower. You know it as my least favorite vegetable. I realized something was up when I came to breakfast one recent morning and there was a cauliflower article awaiting me. Thank you, Mr. Non-Compliant, who is never one to agitate. I jest. “Is this cauliflower article here...
Welcome to Lent, a time of fasting, almsgiving and prayer. For those of you who participate in this mystery, you’ll probably relate to some of my thoughts. For those of you who are not as familiar, hopefully you’ll learn something of interest today. The forty days...