Healthy And Simple

Every time I go to the gym I’m amazed at the sheer variety of different exercises you can do to work out each part of your body. It seems that for each muscle there are a dozen different ways of working it to make it stronger.
That’s good, because variety can help you avoid becoming bored […]

Most people think of them as the left brain and the right brain. The left brain is the logical one, the one that deals with linear thinking, like solving math problems or planning a road trip. The left brain thinks analytically, it’s responsible for understanding languages, numbers, words and writing. The right […]

Did you know that when you help others during times of disaster, natural or otherwise, your odds of survival dramatically increase. Yes, just by helping. This is chronicled in a book by John Leach who is the author of “Survival Psychology”. Here’s what happens. During a disaster, if you take on […]

So, have you ever had this kind of day? I get to the computer and everything is okay, but when I go to print, suddenly the computer forgets where the printer is. I remember the Eddie Izzard stand-up routine where he picks up the computer monitor and aims it at the printer and […]

Now, you and I know that there have been some fabulously beautiful women in the world. Some of them are singers like Beyonce, Sarah McLachlan, Queen Lativah. Some are movie stars, like Audrey Hepburn, Nicole Kidman, or Gwyneth Paltrow, but to me none of those ladies, although lovely, can hold a candle to the ageless […]

I have a friend that makes me nervous! She does! And it isn’t anything that she says or does that makes me uneasy, it’s the way she looks. The way she looks makes me wonder if she is angry, or in a bad mood, because her forehead is always clenched and wrinkled right […]

Yesterday Shirley wrote about a friend who ended up with walking pneumonia after dealing with a lot of personal problems. She called it “circumstantial illness”, how his circumstances were making him sick. But we don’t have to be victims of circumstances, no matter how bleak they are. Even in the worst of times we have […]

I just got off the phone with a friend of mine. He has walking pneumonia, but that’s the least of his problems. There are circumstances that are out of his control making life stressful, making him worry and creating tension in his household. My friend has circumstantial illness. His circumstances are […]

I felt his breath warm and tingling, next to my ear. So close was he to me that I could feel his chest as it rose and fell, at first easy and languid, quickly becoming more excited, faster and deeper. It took my breath away, I didn’t know what to do, I pulled away, but […]

Well, I just read an article called “Mid-Life financial check-up” it’s about reassessing all the things you have done over the years with your money and how to re-focus, depending on your needs, in the future. And it got me to thinking - it happens from time to time - that maybe what we […]