Winter is My Favorite I love winter. It conjures up visions of hot chocolate by a fire, family celebrations, snowmobiling, sledding, skiing, making snowmen, pretty snowflakes covering the world with glitter. The cool crisp air, the blue and white landscape, snow covered trees, and icicles hanging from eaves. I know it also includes scarping the […]
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Let me start off by saying I have been eating too much processed sugar, as I was deciding how long to do it and what exactly to cut, I was inspired to see if anyone was interested in joining, comfort in numbers! I was completely overwhelmed, and super excited, by the response… so now I
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Poor Decisions We all make them, when it comes to love, money, food, and exercise, every single one of us has made a decision or two that is… not as good as it could have been. A new study shows that this is an international phenomenon, and maps of the world show that our food
Resolutions This time of year many of us are thinking about New Year’s Resolutions, a tradition for people who are wanting to improve themselves in some way. We don’t have to wait until a special day to make a change, but a new year is so filled with promise and expectation it can be a
Cornhusk Angel Many years ago when my grown kids were babies and money was always a struggle the holiday season was really getting me down. I was a full-time college student, single mom of 2 little kids, I worked in a bar, and was barely making ends meet to pay for our little trailer, it
Thoughts on Death I usually write on positive subjects, but death is part of life, and sometimes we cannot get away from it. I think I am weird about death, I have worked with hospice patients for many years and I think, in a way, it makes you… more immune, almost, to the effects. Not
Breast Cancer News Initial studies are showing positive news for breast cancer. Researchers at the UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presented their findings December 17th, showing what happens when you give cancer cells the squeeze, literally. At the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco researchers presented
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Exercise Keeps Your Brain Healthy! Another great reason to stay active, and if you’re sedentary, to get more active! This study was done looking for more ways to prevent Alzheimer’s as reported by NBC. Seniors who stay active use important parts of the brain keeping them active and blood flowing properly. The studies show that
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The Rotten Truth About Fluoride Fluoride has long been touted as a wonderful, necessary part of healthy water, it supposedly helps prevent tooth decay, builds strong bones, and we should never be without it. All of that information is wrong. Fluoride is a substance toxic enough to be used in rat poison and insecticides. Many
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How to Parent in a Crazy, Scary, Mixed Up World Receiving the news about the Connecticut school shooting this week was bone chilling and heartbreaking. Parents everywhere ran to hug their own children while feeling grief and pain for the parents of the school children, myself included. The world does not feel like a safe
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Speak Softly… I hear many people say these days that they wish for a simpler time, when people visited with their neighbors, when the front porch was the place to be, when people spoke softly and were kind to each other. A time when kids played together outside after school and weekends, and the storekeepers
One Child, Cancer-Free A little girl in Philipsburg, PA, is running about, doing somersaults, and playing and having fun, Emma Whitehead, age 6, is now in remission after being near death just last spring from leukemia. She had relapsed twice after chemotherapy and her doctors were running out of options. And Now… Her parents, desperate
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Reasons for Everything When I moved into this town, not even 4 months ago, I prayed to make new friends among my neighbors, in the last few places I have lived I have been blessed with amazing neighbors, really good people. The first person I tried to talk to, 2 houses away, turned around and
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Foods for High Blood Pressure! Making changes to your diet is a proven way to help control high blood pressure. These changes can also help you lose weight and lower your chance of heart diseas and stroke. Below are a few foods that will help you accomplish this goal: Raisins for Blood Pressure! That’s
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If you have someone that is super hard to buy for, or is embracing a healthier lifestyle, or suffering from a chronic illness, or if you are so excited about your own healthy life that you want to share it with everyone, some of these items may help you out! Dark chocolate – delicious, and
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When 19 year old Courtney Sprenkle, a patient at Penn State Hershey with AML, Acute Myeloid Leukemia, stated her biggest dream was her perfect wedding, the nurses on 7 West got together and conspired to make it happen. The November 10 wedding had a beautiful bride in a gorgeous white dress, a handsome groom, Scott
This is a super busy stressful time of year, and it should be a time of rest and rejuvenation. Even when you are excited and happy it’s stressful for your body, just because you are doing so many things out of the norm, more planning, more shopping, more cooking, etc. Stress produces hormones called cortisol
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It’s true that you cannot truly enjoy sunshine without a little rain. Earthly life was never meant to be perfect, if it was, there would be no striving for better, there would be no growth, there would be no ideal goals. I have this theory, that if you are not where God wants you in
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