As someone who is sensitive to yeast, I have to avoid a lot of bread products (and refined sugar which feeds yeast and adds to the problem). Most of the time, I do not have a problem with this because I know how lousy I feel when I eat yeast-based foods. However, every now and [...]

I am home visiting my Mom for a long weekend. I love my Mom and have a great time when I visit her. It is fun and relaxing and a great break from all the things I have been working on. My unpacked boxes and my incomplete taxes will wait for me until I get [...]

I recently had to stop unpacking and sorting through all my stuff to make sure I could meet a more immediate deadline – April 15! The Internal Revenue Service would probably not accept my need for organization in my new home as an adequate reason why my taxes were not filed in a timely manner. [...]

I am sad today. For 19 years, I have worked with an amazing group of people to put on a four-day event that was designed to create positive transformation for the people who attended. Each year it was created around a specific theme and each year it was more amazing than the year before. Creating [...]

OK, this one doesn’t sound so wonderful. And yes, it is also known as Kudzu – the plant that is strangling millions of acres of land in the Southern United States. But, according to www.newlifejournal.com/augsep02/belleme.shtml, while farmers and utility companies spend millions to kill this plant by spraying it with toxic chemicals, health food stores [...]

At a seminar I attended recently, I was required to present a one-to-two minute monologue as part of the training experience. When I saw the requirement on the course outline, I knew immediately what monologue I wanted to present. I first saw this presented on a TV show in February 1998 and it has stuck [...]

All the news recently has been focused on what’s wrong with the world – politically, economically, socially. But we get more of what we focus on and there are good things happening as well. Yes, millions of people are out of work. And many millions more are still employed. Yes, many houses are on the [...]

I attended a class over the weekend. It was designed by actors and producers for actors and presenters – to help them be better at working in front of groups. By “better” I mean things like getting your message across, speaking loudly enough that people can hear you, having a stage presence so that people [...]

I have been experimenting with some new recipes this past week. Adjusting ingredients to replace what I am sensitive to with ingredients that I can use. As I have a sensitivity to yeast and thus should avoid all fermented foods and regular sugar, this can be challenging. However, my experiments so far have turned out [...]