A Delay is Okay
There was a time when landline telephones and postal mail were our primary methods of communication. Now we enjoy the benefit of cell phones, email, text messaging and social media which have literally eliminated transit time. That is a wonderful thing. Yet somehow...
The Myth of Multigrain
Multigrain does NOT equal whole grain. Multigrain can be whole grain, but not necessarily. This is a tricky truth used as a product labelling manipulation in our food industry today. I used to eat these 100 calorie english muffins thinking because they were...
The CRAZY SEVEN: Things I Do to Eat What I Love and Still Lose Weight
I refuse to diet. A friend told me today, “I HAVE to diet. I need to lose 10 pounds by next month because I am going on vacation." I have been there. I completely feel the weight of that emotion and experience. Yet “HAVE” is a very powerful word and to me it looks...
1, 2 Bite
The song from Ciara featuring Missy Elliott, 1, 2 Step, runs through my head as I sit here pondering why we eat more than a few bites of ANYTHING. We do not need a lot of something to feel a lot of pleasure from it. In our culture of more, we often equate quantity...
Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.