Thanks Jack Lalanne!

“People don’t die from old age, but from neglect.” Jack Lalanne, the godfather of fitness, said this over 50 years ago. Couldn’t of said it better myself. More wisdom from Jack taken from his popular TV show during the 1950’s:
Top Ten Ways To Improve Your Life:
1. Appropriate Exercise
2. Proper Nutrition
3. Positive [...]

Save Future Easter Bunnies!

It’s just a fact of urban life. Almost everyday, someone runs over a rabbit nest with a lawnmower, or the family dog turns a long-eared visitor into a chew toy, leaving orphaned and injured bunnies in need of urgent care. Once the damage is done, few know how to help these suffering creatures.
Wild Rescue, Inc. [...]

Farmers Market Bounty

Big D magazine is doing a series about eating locally in Dallas. At a time when most farmers markets are florishing around the country, the Dallas Farmers Market has been floundering. Analysis of the situation shows that unfriendly policies towards farmers as well as poor investment in the infrastructure on the part of the [...]

Bryce Canyon National Park

Okay, Okay. Since so many of you are begging me to post pictures from my vacation, here are three. Click on each picture for a full view. Afterwards, please take the short quiz below.

Quiz:
1. Do you think the National Parks are worth saving?
2. Do you think the National Parks add to our quality of life?
3. [...]

Today is Freedom from Self-Improvement Day

MORE AT: http://www.freedomfromselfimprovement.com/
Why a “Freedom from Self-Improvement Day”? (by Jennifer Louden)
Because if self-improvement worked, we’d all be self-levitating, multi-lingual,
size-zero billionaires by now.
Because there is no “secret.”
Because it’s time to challenge the belief that if we “could only” change our
partner, our thigh size, our job or if we could only meditate [...]

Time For Your Annual?

I was just telling a friend it was time for my annual mammogram. I also told her the current method of performing mammograms must have been created by a man, because no woman would have designed such an uncomfortable procedure. She informed me that I was wrong. If a man designed such a procedure, it [...]

Herbal Plumber for Writer’s Block

Just about everyone I know suffers from writer’s block from time to time, which progresses through three main stages. First you stare at the blank paper in front of you for about a geologic epoch. I’ve actually mentally seen T-Rexes evolve into birds during this stage. Second, you start re-reading the last paragraph written before [...]

For Your Sweetie and Your Main Squeeze: The Planet Earth

I just received a really neat newsletter from the Organic Consumers Association that features what to send your Sweetie for Valentine’s Day. I was particularly impressed with one suggestion to send organic essential flower oils instead of conventional flowers or chocolates. What a great idea this is! The fragrances from essential oils will last [...]

Essential Reading and Writing For A More Blessed Universe

During the 24-hour period it took me to get to Taiwan by plane, I finally got to read my new magazine subscription to The Essential Herbal (www.essentialherbal.com). The Essential Herbal is a grass roots type magazine that features articles about growing and using herbs as well as eating wild foods. It is stuffed with natural [...]

How To Get To Detox Heaven

Hey! Thanks Susan Wittig Albert for commenting on Friday’s post. You made my day.
Yesterday, I took an aromatherapy class on how to make herbal bath teas. It was held at the Spiritual Fitness Center in Richardson, TX (www.spiritualfitnesscenter.com). My instructor was Pat Hood of Parallel Universe, Inc. (iiuniverse@verizon.net).
Pat not only teaches informal classes in aromatherapy, [...]