* Enjoy a repost of a blog I wrote to ring in 2019. The sentiments still apply! I’ve always had an intense love-hate relationship with New Year’s. On the one hand, I love the sense of starting over in a brand new...
Currently Browsing: Intermittent Fasting
Yesterday, I was traveling home to Maine from a winter weekend getaway to the beach. It was my fifth trip in 2019 that required airline travel, and the previous 4 trips were as smooth as silk. No bumps on the way down, and no issue with my...
I love stories. I always have. I grew up on Saturday morning cartoons and After School Specials. I mass consumed comic books and Hardy Boys Mysteries. My mother took me to the small local library every couple of weeks in the...
How many of you are old enough to remember the TVs with a dial for the channel and another for the volume, where the outer part of the dial was a knob that could be slipped off its post? There's a story in my family that my father would...
Early fall arrives in Maine sooner than it arrives on the calendar, and we've already had some frosty mornings, so today's warm sun and moderate temperatures were welcome for my walk. Down by the river, I stood on a flat rock with my...
People always say “it’s like riding a bike” to mean that something should be easy when it isn’t. At the beginning of every school year, I struggle to set up my electronic grade book even though I use it every day for 10 months....
Somewhere over the past couple of years, I declared myself the Poster Girl for Contentment. People in my life have witnessed my transformation, but the words came from me. My poster girlhood is entirely "self-proclaimed." I used my grandmother as a...
Today I had a closeup encounter with a heron during my morning walk. Herons are notoriously shy birds, so I’m usually disappointed when they fly away before I can get close enough to really look at them. For whatever reason this heron gave me...
Today, August 21, 2019, my Gram would have turned 101. She lived to be 95, and she's the inspiration for the Enjoy-Your-Life journey that brought me to fasting (and motivated me to write Unmired). That has her on my mind, but she is never far...
I spent this past weekend at the family camp. It was a damp, overcast weekend, far from ideal weather for August in Maine, but it was lovely. The camp is full of knotty yellow pine and the nostalgia that comes with any place that has changed little...
