Each evening, after work, my husband yells at his mom for an hour. My mother-in-law is over 90 years old and has gradually increased her inactivity over the last 10 years until she has reached the point where she can’t get out of chair easily or walk – even with her walker – or use …
Saturday didn’t turn out the way that I thought it would. On Friday, I walked down to the farmer’s market, hoping to load up on fresh basil for our annual pesto-making harvest. Last year, we didn’t make pesto because we missed the August basil season. And the year before, we had been displaced from our …
Actually, lately it hasn’t been much of a blog at all. Sorry about that. Mind full and fingers still. The mess pictured above was intended to become a coffee cake. A coffee cake made with freshly picked blackberries from my sister’s backyard which, if you know blackberries, you realize are a bit like zucchini – …
This morning I read an interview with Zeke Emanuel – that’s the healthcare Emanuel, vs. the Mayor Emanuel – who spoke of his commitment to let go of urge to retain life after a certain age. 75 in fact. And by letting go of life, he spoke of not taking prescription drugs and signing his …
I have been trying a new approach lately to achieving my goals. Instead of having a large vague goal and then fretting over how to achieve it, I have been trying the opposite: picturing my goal very specifically, thinking about how it will make me feel, then taking small steps without really knowing how I …
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