Star Light, Star Bright
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” Esk...
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October's Magic
"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October." -Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Days Like These...
VFT Rosh Hashana was perfect. Derek, Pete and Nicole brought a few friends and the table was filled with youth, chatter and lots of vegan food. The matzo balls hel...
Rosh Hashana, Vegan Style
Tonight will be a VFT with a Rosh Hashana twist. Once again, I will try to make the matzo balls, balls and not crumbles. Trying something a little different this t...
Back to Boston, Boston Johnny
Week 2, notoriously a tough weigh in. Amazingly, as the show opened with a donut temptation, most of the contestants didn't even take a bite. The team who would ea...
Information Overload! Back to the Basics
This morning I checked my email before deciding what to blog about. Without exaggeration, I have about a dozen different health/fitness/exercise/diet emails and hon...
Hodge-Podge, Monday
Woke up energized, with a "hodge-podge" of things on my mind, after a lot of time catching up on sleep, yesterday. Excited for the Dolphin's 3rd game of the season,...
Beauty is Everywhere
"I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful." -- Pete Hamill
The Tortoise and the Hare
"The race does not always go to the swift, but to the ones who keep running." -Anonymous
Autumn? Fall? Whatever You Call it, It is a True Season of Plenty
"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air." Nathaniel Hawt...
Change a Letter, Change Your Life
It was great affirmation, yesterday, to see two incredibly well respected healers, Deepak Chopra and Andrew Weil, talking about most everything I believe in, on the...
283 Pounds Lighter, Already!!!
Wow. Biggest Loser did NOT disappoint this girl. When I walked in the door from the gym, the show, which I would later watch on DVR, had already started and Mitch...