Sleep is so incredibly important to one’s health and well-being. There are numerous studies that show how sleep deprivation will adversely affect the quality of one’s life and one’s health. Yet often people will make sleep the one thing that they will deprive themselves of in order to accomplish something that really has no effect […]
The Only Risk
“There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is that of breaking free.” -Gait Belling When I was a kid, my oldest sister (18 years older) was married to a man who struggled with alcoholism. That was back in the days when it was expected that, should you get pregnant out of […]
The Simple Things
Today I am grateful for the simple things in my life. As with so many people, Covid-19 has turned my life a bit upside down here and there. Where once I used to resent technology, I now have an appreciation for the benefits of it when it comes to staying in touch with friends, family […]
What You Know in your Bones
I have a chipped bone in my elbow. “How did that happen?” you may ask. Well, like most of my bone fractures, quite by accident. I have had enough of these things to know how it feels. So no, at this time I am not going to be going in for an X-ray just to […]
Becoming a Better Gardener
The other day at the greenhouse I was shopping at, I was in line behind a young woman (these days almost everyone is younger, so that is how I describe them…it has nothing to do with anything other than my own age) when she saw the sign on the counter by the till that said, […]