Time for some HIIT

July 31, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

Yes, I’m that weird person you see running up and down the avenues in the cemetery at dusk. If you catch me on a good day of training, you’ll even hear me singing along – loudly – to whatever is pumping into my ears as I run. I’ve been doing High Intensity Interval Training for […]

Time to readjust the goals.

July 25, 2012.Reading time 4 minutes.

Life as we know it…. is different. We set goals for ourselves that we with all intents and purposes WANT to meet. We don’t want to fail, we want to succeed. After graduating high school, while starting out my college career, I made the daunting decision to start my own side business (I was also […]

In the Summertime.

July 10, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

Summer at my house is all about being outside. I cook everything on the grille in the summer. I sit outside and read for hours. If I have work I need to do from home, I bring the computer out and sit on the deck to work. Being inside when it’s THIS nice out is […]

It’s a “scene” thing.

June 14, 2012.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Finally, after months of preparation and a few set backs, this magazine is coming back! Submitted the cover yesterday evening before I left the office. Came in this morning to a proof. Now the story list has been sent off to production and I’m itching already for a final product. I feel grateful for the […]

Fooducate shine your light on my food, please.

May 13, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

After I graduated high school, I made the choice to start eating much healthier than I was eating in the years before. No more lunches of 3 slices of pizza and loaded subs (at the same time), no more eating a twix bar along with an array of candy bars as “snacks”. The sweets were […]

It’s just hair

April 26, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

As the nearly life-long possessor of long hair, almost a year ago, I cut it off. I went from 27 1/2 years of carrying my hair to mid-back – to a chin-length reverse bob. And so began my quest for the Pixie Cut. I’ve always wanted one. Always have been told I could pull it […]

Cinnamon chips. Trial and error with a funky stove.

April 22, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

When my husband and I were hauling stuff out of the house we bought 2 years ago, the stove was the first thing I knew I wanted to toss. It was disgusting and I didn’t dare to see if it actually was a functioning stove. I didn’t want to blow our house up before I […]

The things I find…

April 12, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

My first two houses were pretty uneventful. My first was set on the edge of a field with a big old brick farm house behind it called the “Sleeper Farm” named for the family who had for a long time, owned the land. I dubbed it “The Hollow” because I won’t lie – it was […]

My first tasteofhome.com submition

April 9, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

This whole “I Can Eat This” thing is a lot easier than I thought. Apparently I was even more of a healthy/clean/low sodium eater than I actually thought. 90% of everything in my refrigerator, freezer and pantry constitutes what I should have in order to meet “Dr’s orders”. The other 10%? It’s my husbands trash […]

Flowers are blooming

April 9, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

For a little over a month now, my gardens have been coming to life. The first to rise through the dirt were my English daisies. The low green leaves popping up through the brown of the dead, decaying ones from late last fall. Small, bright and happy flowers popping up to give some color to […]