Just Say “NO” to Turnoff Week

The Center for Screen Time Awareness advocates setting aside one week each year (this happens to be the week) to avoid television, internet and other electronic media.  They inniciated this annual event almost fifteen years ago.
It started yesterday.  As you can see, I choose not to participate.  TV I can do without. Avoiding the [...]

Finally! Help Deciphering Nutritional Labels

We try to make good food choices, but, too often, the nutritional labels are confusing instead of helpful. Now, thanks to Diane Manning, there’s a way to decipher them.
Manning, who suffered for years with a digestive illness that could be controlled only through diet, created Labelwatch.com, a site with nutritional data for over 25,000 different [...]

Study Shows Drinking Tea is Healthier than Drinking Water

by Teresa Neumann – writer for Elijah List

Tea provides antioxidants, replaces fluids, strengthens bones and protects against dental plaque. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as they say.
(United Kingdom)—The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition has reported that tea not only rehydrates as well as water does, but it can also protect [...]

Renaissance Souls

What do you do?
That question never fails to spark a wave of angst.  I have been trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up for *ahem* quite a few years now.
The question was not so difficult when my sons were growing up.  Back then, I was a stay-at-home-mom (with an [...]

Creative Waterfall

Japanese creativity at work.  Amazing.

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