My husband and I traveled to Spain for his 50th birthday recently. My only request was to visit Avila, the home town of St. Theresa. St. Theresa was born in 1515, and was a force of change for Carmelite nuns. She had been given books...
I want to start by saying, when you are ready for some changes in your life, you will know it. You wil feel ready to read that book about raw food, or start working out daily, or start drinking your water, maybe even starting to...
I was shocked the other day, the day I learned how women feel about their first line of defense against breast cancer. I had a group of girlfriends over for lunch celebrating the holidays, when the conversation turned to breast cancer. A relative of one...
There are three entities in our government system that use up 70% of our taxes, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaide. We are a country that spends very little on healthy food, favoring the cheapest foods. Our government will subsidize farmers for growing crops like corn,...
As we age, we start to break down one system at a time, or maybe several systems at a time. The clues turn up as symptoms, and the mystery starts to reveal itself through your immune system, the cardiac system, vascular system, or hormonal system....
Here is a surprising average, 2% of our national energy consumption will be thrown away in our trash cans. That's the equivalent of 350 million barrels of oil. Consider what it takes to get a head of broccoli from a seed, farmer nurturing plant till...
We love the convience of bottled water, but unfortunately a chemical that makes up the bottle of bottled water, has also been found to leach into the water itself. That chemical is bisphenol A, or BPA. It was originally created as an estrogen mimicking pro-hormone,...
Surgery, Chemotherapy, and Radiation, that's it? Those are the care choices given by our medical system. But there is so much more out there!! Yesterday, I watched a man cry, asking what more could he have done for his wife, he said she is now...
Staying hydrated are we? It's not an easy task, you need to be mindful about drinking, what ever it is you choose to imbibe in. You have to drink something, so let's talk about some of our favorites. My very favorite drink during the day,...