Category: Self Improvement

Reading Time: 5 minutes I woke up Sunday morning with “Raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens” on my mind.  I know.  Weird.  They were the favorite things Julie Andrews sang about in Sound of Music, but it prompted me to think about my favorite things about intermittent fasting (IF). My last two blog posts… Read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes If you missed my post last week, be sure to read it here before you continue with this one.  This week’s post is a continuation of it. Fasting is a word that, growing up, had all kinds of religious connotations.  It implied piety and penance, spirituality and sacrifice.  Few people outside of… Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes We had lunch with some friends in Missouri last week.  It’s been almost a year since I’d seen her.  She walked in and I was struck by how terrific she looked.  She’d acknowledged she’d lost weight, but it was more than that.  She looked healthier and had a glow about her… Read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes I ran across something I shared, with proper attribution, on Facebook the other day. I don’t know who originally wrote the post, but it was thoughtful, wise, and, in my opinion, correct. You can read the full post here. Here are the parts that are relevant to my post today. Between… Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes Here in Southwest Florida it’s getting to be that time of the year when the temperature drops about 10 degrees to perfect, and there’s a light breeze blowing off the gulf. The water is still warm enough to swim without artificial heat and it’s just purely amazing to be outside most… Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes As I sat down last week to write my Friday short post, I’d just been profoundly affected by a couple of paragraphs I read in a novel I had a hard time putting down. Tears began leaking and my throat closed up a little as I read them again and again.… Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes In my post two weeks ago, I recommended you read Dr Gladys McGarey’s book, The Well-Lived Life. I’m doing my second read through this week, picking up all kinds of things this time that I missed on the first go-round. After Hurricane Ian I put up this sign in our yard.… Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I had the very last medical appointment pertaining to the cancer diagnosis I got in January. It was a second opinion with a medical oncologist. I was astounded and gratified that he “felt extremely comfortable” with the decision I’d made to decide not to have any radiation or aromatase… Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes Right here, right now, I’m going to give you the best mental (and maybe physical) health advice you’ll ever receive. It is this: Get this book, read it cover to cover. * Read it again. Think about it, and what Dr Gladys says in it, whenever you have a bit of… Read more