Oy! It’s so dark all the time right now. It’s tough enough that our allotment of sunshine is so limited here in the PNW anyway, but it drives me CRAZY when I barely see the light of day. So I give myself the “when life gives you lemons” speech.

It’s official – I am middle-aged. In fact, I have been for quite a while, but I am choosing now to embrace my older self. There are things that have happened to my body and my brain that I never expected when I was a young thing. Some of these are good – I have more patience, for example. Other changes are not as good, like wrinkles, but at least I knew they were inevitbale.

To grow and maintain muscle mass is important for quality of life! With the surge of interest in muscle tone, wellness and the ideal physique I will share five related concepts that should reinforce your perspective about muscles and health.

Coconut oil is one lean, mean, dynamic machine. While it is an amazing and popular hair /skin treatment, I am going to stick to the benefits that come from eating it.

I just rescued a young female German Shepherd, Sienna and wanted to make sure that she and my cat Buddie would get to know each other safely. I also wanted to make sure that the potential ill-effects of vaccines, worming medicines and flea baths wouldn’t cause her any long term issues.

An oversimplified analogy for this product might be baking a cake. You can make a cake with eggs, flour, milk, and baking powder but it’s not a cake unless all of these components are there to create that delicious cake matrix. Similarly, bones need several components in order to support the ongoing dynamic process that is bone.

T’is the time of year to count your blessings and reflect on what you are truly thankful for. In the depth of flu season, we can all be thankful that we are not re-living the “Swine of ‘09” flu epidemic! However, every year someone in your office or classroom or home is suffering from those annoying cold and flu symptoms.

Our sanity is a precious and delicate thing. Before you begin to question my own on the basis of me starting out an article with that sentence, I assure you I’m not one to speak aimlessly for extended periods of time. Unless, of course, you catch me on a regimen of