So what is the beginning? On this day, 55 years ago, my life began. I must say that even only a few years ago, my vision for this day was very different than today’s reality. I had envisioned a big birthday party in my desert home with family and friends from all around the country [...]

I am finding the end of this year to be a personal challenge. It feels like there are a lot of endings – or maybe it would be more accurate to say there is a lot of letting go. I won’t be going to North Carolina to visit my nieces for the first time since [...]

I started this blog in April 2008. It was part of a website about losing weight by avoiding foods that people test sensitive to. It was a great idea that never really got off the ground. Not sure why. It helped some people (mostly friends and family) lose weight and feel better. And I am [...]

I am home visiting my Mom at the moment. It is always great to spend time with her. She still lives in the house I grew up in so it is a home filled with memories for me. I still miss my Dad even though it has been three years since he passed away. It [...]

I participated in a four-hour webinar on Saturday morning. It started at 8 am Eastern time, so being on Pacific time, I had to get started at 5 am. Not being a morning person, I was a few minutes late, but there was a lot of great content in four hours, and there was no [...]

This blog is currently linked to a website that has been up for over two years. That website is about losing weight and keeping it off. I started this blog as a way of sharing information about that process with people who were interested. However, the website never really caught on and has remained somewhere [...]

While making plans for the holiday weekend, I stopped to think about this particular holiday. I usually thing of it as just the 4th of July, but really it is also Independence Day – the day we celebrate declaring our independence from Great Britain, becoming a sovereign nation instead of a colony. I looked up [...]

A few weeks ago (actually on April 29), I started posting shorter blog entries. Instead of four or five paragraphs, I dropped my posts to three paragraphs. I did this because I had been told that longer posts were not the best way to communicate with time-challenged readers. And I wanted to respect people’s time. [...]

February is almost over! It seems like just a few weeks ago I was celebrating the arrival of another year and now two months of it are gone. I have been busy this year – in a good way, but I am recognizing the need to take some time each week to slow down and [...]

The new year is off and running – and so am I! My new desk is wonderful and after a year now in San Francisco, I am finally beginning to feel like I really live here! There are times I miss my old life back in Cincinnati. And many more times when I miss my [...]