What time is it?

Did you have a great holiday?    Personally, I skipped the large crowds and fireworks and fought potato bugs and cabbage worms in my garden. Don’t know if I am winning yet, but the odds do not seem in my favor as of this moment.    I do lots of thinking when I garden....

What Woke Me Up at 3:31am

Hopefully you rarely wake up out of a deep sleep at 3:31 am.  I am a great sleeper.  So when I woke up at 3:31 am three nights in a row, I knew I had broken my rule of “keeping it simple”.Keeping things simple is a wonderful way to help you ensure restful sleep.  Once...

Turn Down The Dial Of Stress

LIFE SOUNDS LIKE THIS AND FEELS LIKE THIS. Remember when you were told about writing in caps and how “loud” it was in email?  Well, life has gotten like that for so many of us that I wanted to share with you some turn down the volume tips – some strategies for your...

Warm, Safe and Quiet.

The snow and sleet and cold that has rocked us and seems to have bothered us more deeply than just “the weather”.  We are feeling vulnerable about unexpected weather patterns. Global warming or financial crisis or housing market issues or the Catholic church with...

Story of a Loser – Me

Ok, so I’ve not always been good are reducing stress.  In fact, I use to be the Queen of causing my own stress.  And I did not start talking about reducing holiday stress on an annual basis because I was bright enough to come up with these terrific stress reducing...

Ultimate Halloween Stress – Candy and Costumes

Halloween is just 25 days away, an American holiday of costuming and sugar highs.  If you are smart, you have got this date on your calendar.  You probably know the routine of “trick or treating” hours for  your city or town – the hours that kids are encouraged to do...

OMG, The Holidays Are Coming…Again

This is the earliest I’ve ever written about the holidays.  I usually wait until middle to late October to start my often humorous discussion of what the holidays mean and do to us. There is a little bit of September 2013 left as I begin my annual conversation about...

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