Okay.Ā Anyone else shaking their head and wondering how we got here?Ā Take a deep breath, say a prayer or spend five minutes in meditation (watch a kitten video?).Ā And now, during this time when we need one another more than ever, we are supposed to āsocial distance.āĀ Iām trying to make small, significant changes […]
Do you celebrate what I call ethnic (but PC would probably prefer āculturalā) celebrations?Ā I do, especially if they involve eating.Ā And luckily for me, most holidays revolve around food!Ā Of course, everyone knows the menu for Thanksgiving and Christmas, maybe even Passover and Easter.Ā But some of the lesser celebrations ā well Iām all […]
We hosted our first patio happy hour Friday night with DF Helen. It might have been a bit more than happy hour, because we added an assemble-yourself pizza bar, so I guess you can call it dinner. Can pizza be delicious and healthy? Well, we built and grilled them on the patio. I can attest […]
While the weather might not be perfect for outdoor workouts quite yet, in most places it is slowly improving, and getting some fresh air and a little sunshine feels so good.Ā Here in Arizona, the Texas Laurel is in full bloom and smells like heaven. So now is the perfect time to re-motivate yourself and […]
Mysteries are by far and away my favorite reading genre and I have so many favorite series detectives.Ā I donāt care if the novels are violent and trashy, bring it on!Ā Strangely, I donāt like that in movies, but in books, I do.Ā Go figure. To qualify as one my top favorite detectives means that […]
Weight-loss and healthy-living articles all tout the benefits of getting enough liquid and how most people donāt get enough water.Ā That is not my story.Ā I love beverages. My day starts with a glass of water with a squeeze of lemon and a sprinkle of sea salt. I love that drink. Closely following, is my […]
This is the third blog post Iāve started for this week. Everything I have wanted to write about keeps bogging me down and feels too weighty for this place and this time. I really want to write about something a little more substantial than our good weather, but it keeps coming back to that. With […]
There is a very good reason why I moved to a place that has hellaciously hot summers.Ā It is for the short winters, of course.Ā We in Arizona are rewarded with falls that are more like what I call summer-lite ā hot days and cool nights.Ā Spring generally starts early here and I can generally […]
Isnāt what makes romantic love special the fact that it’s exclusionary?Ā Itās different from familial or friendship love because you love that one person differently from all others and it is conditional rather than unconditional.Ā So how in the world did Valentineās Day become a day when little children send cards to every other child […]
I absolutely love math. Ā That is either a crazy affirmation statement that makes me hope someday I will supernaturally be good at it or itās the biggest lie Iāve ever told. Ā I donāt love math, but I love the ideaĀ of math. Ā Iāve seen movies about math. Ā A Beautiful Mind, Enigma, The Theory of Everything, Hidden […]