Week 5 – Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2013 Changing Thoughts From Scarcity to Abundance

I have too much stuff…not in a crazy hoarder way, but in small ways, like having four dust pans, and more mugs than will fit in the mug cupboard. For this week’s bettering yourself exercise, I am working on losing the fear of not having enough, and focusing on the belief that everything I need… Continue reading Week 5 – Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2013 Changing Thoughts From Scarcity to Abundance

Week 4 Review – Jan 21 – 27, 2013 Finding Ways to Look Younger Than My Age

My first step in tackling this week’s bettering yourself challenge was to buy a digital scale.  When I stepped onto it. Whoaah!  I need to lose another twenty pounds in addition to the twenty I thought I had to lose. But, what surprised me is I lost a half a pound a day, so four… Continue reading Week 4 Review – Jan 21 – 27, 2013 Finding Ways to Look Younger Than My Age

Seeing Oprah in Vancouver – Thurs Jan 24th, 2013

  You don’t usually find a pair of $700.00 French country nightstands at a garage sale, but Oprah Winfrey’s garage sale isn’t your usual garage sale. She is selling off many of her former favorite things in Santa Barbara this weekend, to fund a college education for girls at a school she set up in… Continue reading Seeing Oprah in Vancouver – Thurs Jan 24th, 2013

Salad in a Jar

Salad in a Jar  (as seen on The Food Network).   Recipe For Salad in a Jar Gather your favorite vegetables, and chop them up.  I chose carrots, cucumbers, red pepper, onions, and lettuce.  Drain the lettuce in a strainer. First, pour salad dressing into the jar, then stack your vegetables on top of the… Continue reading Salad in a Jar

Week 4 – Jan 21 – 27, 2013 – Ways to Look Younger Than My Age

For this week’s bettering yourself program I will continue to  work on losing weight each week by eating more fruits, vegetables and protein, stop buying cookies and chips, and exercise more.  Also, I will  research how the celebrities manage to look younger than they are, and see what fits my lifestyle and budget.  Next week… Continue reading Week 4 – Jan 21 – 27, 2013 – Ways to Look Younger Than My Age

Week 4 Review – Jan 21 – 27, 2013 Having Positive Thoughts about Aging

This week, as I meditated on my thoughts about aging each day, what I learned surprised me.  By watching my thoughts, I discovered that my thoughts are already youthful, and I feel at least 20 years younger than my biological age inside and am excited to continue to grow in wisdom and knowledge and experience.… Continue reading Week 4 Review – Jan 21 – 27, 2013 Having Positive Thoughts about Aging

My Irish Tea Cup Reader Mom

    Those with Celtic blood – The Irish, Scottish and Welsh, are said to have more “fey”, or “gift of the sight”, than most. Reading the leaves in “cupan tae” ( Gaelic for cup of tea), was perfected in Ireland, a culture steeped in fairies and gypsies.   Mom may have obtained her gift… Continue reading My Irish Tea Cup Reader Mom

Shelley Fralic’s Favorite Things – Oprah coming to Vancouver

In honor of Oprah coming to Vancouver next week, Shelley Fralic, columnist with “The Vancouver Sun” newspaper wrote a column today Sat. Jan 19th, asking readers to send in a list of their favorite things. Shelley is one of Ann’s muses as I have admired her writing for years, and would be happy with half… Continue reading Shelley Fralic’s Favorite Things – Oprah coming to Vancouver

Week 3 – Jan 14 – 20 – Having a Positive Attitude about Aging

This week I am working on having a POSITIVE ATTITUDE ABOUT AGING.  Since all of our habits begin with our thoughts, I am going to change my thoughts about aging, and focus on growing and learning and being excited about my future, not fearful. One of my inspirational people, Louise Hay, is 86 years old,… Continue reading Week 3 – Jan 14 – 20 – Having a Positive Attitude about Aging

Review of “You and Your Future”, By: Georgia Nicols

I digested all 608 delicious pages of “You and Your Future, by Georgia Nicols this week, for my 52 weeks to optimizing yourself topic: “Read More Books”.  Each evening, as night became morning, my eyes closed, and then the book closed. Every culture has an astrological system to explain our connection to the solar system.… Continue reading Review of “You and Your Future”, By: Georgia Nicols

Blogging over Spilled Milk

My philosophy on life is the glass is always half full, or the bowl, in this case. One morning, my 16 year old son slept through his alarm, setting off a chain of events in his wake. He ate his bowl of cereal on the drive to school to avoid being late. When we arrived… Continue reading Blogging over Spilled Milk