Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Happy Anniversary, Broken Foot. You Suck.

One year ago today, I broke my little toe, maybe jammed a second toe, and perhaps broke a bone on the bottom of my foot. My doctor wanted me to go to a specialist (podiatrist? that doesn’t sound right…) and have x-rays done, but, I never was able to do that. Specialists are expensive and [...]

Not Down With Getting Healthier Yet

I said the other day that I was going to start back logging my food at Sparkpeople.com ….and I started to do just that. Really, I did. I think I logged my lunch yesterday and that was it in the last two days. Dudes, I’m just not there yet. My head is not ‘back in [...]

Chocolate Trouble

It seems I’ve gotten myself into a little bit of chocolate trouble. Or a lot, perhaps, depending on your viewpoint. I was choosing healthy food to eat, I was logging my daily intake of food at Sparkpeople.com and I was doing well. Then I went to Nashville for a conference with a friend and we [...]

Toe Hurts. Foot Hurts. Grumble Grumble.

Image by TILT via Flickr I’m a bit of a grumpy guss today. I sure hope you don’t mind. I broke my toe one week ago today and the durn thing is killing me!!! It happened last Wednesday morning as I was getting up to go turn off the alarm in the kitchen. I have [...]

Sneezing And Sniffling My Morning Away

Just about thirty minutes ago, a MACK TRUCK named “Allergy Attack” came storming through my office. I’m just sitting here, getting my day going, blog posts ready, letters to children written, the whole nine yards – when …. WHAMMO BLAMMO!!! I get hit by that durned, blasted mack truck allergy attack and am rendered three [...]

Jill Bolte Taylor Gave One Of My Favorite TED Talks

This afternoon, I thought I’d share one of my very favorite TED Talks with you. It’s actually really hard to have a favorite TED Talk, as they are all so fascinatingly interesting. Jill Bolte Taylor’s 18 minutes really had an affect on me, though. Here is the introduction from the site: Jill Bolte Taylor got [...]