Healthy and Simple

Lately, I’ve been working on a web TV show, www.powersewing.com.  I’ve been very busy and I haven’t been posting as much as I would like, so Kevin has been “taking up the slack”.  He has been posting and also, he has been posting.
He hasn’t ever said to me, “Why aren’t you finding time to post?”  [...]

We’ve all done it. You have your workout clothes all ready, you have finished work for the day and you are supposed to be heading to the gym. But somehow the idea of jumping on the treadmill, taking an aerobics class, or lifting those weights is not nearly as appealing as going home, flopping on [...]

Yesterday I wrote about how having a cold made me grateful for my normal good health.  That got me thinking more about gratitude and just how important it is in our everyday lives.

I was just a little girl when I started to workout with Jack LaLanne! My mom would turn on the TV around 12 o’clock everyday and work out with Jack and since I was too young to go to school I would join in the workouts. There was the chair workout and the [...]

I have met a few truly wise people in my life. Sadly, neither one of them is me. But hey, I’m not dead yet so there’s still time. Anyway, one of them is a chap named Dr. Bill Stewart and the other is Shirley – and I’m not just saying that because I’m scared of [...]

Think about your day and all the things you do, carrying bundles from the grocery store into the house, getting in and out of your car, fitting through turnstiles, walking from the parking lot to your work, bending, lifting, reaching. Think of all the physical movements you make during the day.

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 [...]

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 all [...]

Every day you read about or hear about a new study that could dramatically change the way we treat a disease, or live our lives. But much of the time this week’s studies seem to contradict last week’s studies. One day coffee is good for you, the next it is bad. So how do you [...]

Because the way it’s framed is so important.
You may have seen or heard about that study with the screaming headlines “Organic food no healthier than conventional”. It cited what researchers were calling the world’s biggest research project into the issue, saying there are no significant nutritional differences between conventional produce and organic fruits and vegetables.
Now, [...]