Category: Self Improvement

Reading Time: 5 minutesI 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 were… Read more

Reading Time: 5 minutesIf 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 that… Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe 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 that… Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Christmas Day is Monday, and you’ve been traveling all week, Tuesday morning and the realization you need a new post to keep up with your self-imposed schedule creeps up on you awfully fast.  We were putting some of the final touches on Christmas dinner (prime rib, twice baked potatoes, pop-overs, and… Read more

Reading Time: 5 minutesI 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 age… Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutesHere 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 of… Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs 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. I… Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 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. One… Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday 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 inhibitor… Read more