Category Archives: Health and wellness

Top 10 Lessons Learned in Happiness by Gretchen Rubin  These are the top 10 lessons I’ve learned about happiness …   Lesson 1. First Splendid Truth: To be happy, you need to consider feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, … Continue reading →

It was announced this week that we are moving to another building on the same campus we are currently working at. So I grabbed my cell phone and took some pictures. The first picture is of the park north of our … Continue reading →

A ‘not too’ deep read from WebMC.com: “I was in the ninth grade when I learned a vital lesson about love. My girlfriend at the time, Amy, was stunningly cute, frighteningly smart and armed with a seemingly endless supply of … Continue reading →

Sleep as much as you can ….

And looking at this fine parmesan, mushroom, tomato pasta dish with garlic toast. I’m sure there’s a fancy name for this dish, I just don’t know it but I bet Graham would. Dinner looked fine so I ran to get … Continue reading →

Sometimes I find beauty and joy in the simplest of things. Last night it was a waxing, almost full moon. Today it’s a cup of coffee and well presented in my friend Menno te Koppele;s picture on Facebook today. The … Continue reading →

Most families on the Pacific Coast in Washington do not have air conditioning in their house. So this is very hot weather for us as projected for this week in the chart below: While this is probably not noteworthy in … Continue reading →

From the New York Times article Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers we learn that takers of the popular online RealAge test are handing out valuable data to drug companies. “According to RealAge, more than 27 million … Continue reading →

This is capturing a recent email conversation I had with the school my grandson attends. I found out they were having students read from any book they chose three times a week and during the school hours. Nicky is an … Continue reading →

A friend of mine was mentioning learning to make what her family calls monk’s gruel in preparation for the hard time ahead. I said to myself, self, that’s an interesting idea. Imagine my surprise when I found out it was … Continue reading →