This week’s episode of Optimal Living is all about Healthy Emotions, and earlier this week I described how caring for your emotions is...

This morning I visited with my grandparents and their case worker.  My grandfather suffers from Alzheimer's disease and has been on the...

On the road of life, we sometimes unknowingly make the journey so much more difficult and unpleasant for ourselves by driving with our brakes on.

Sometimes when you have even the best things planned, it turns out being ok or even better when those plans get broken. Today, my friend...

Somewhere along the timeline of my life, I became seriously addicted to my to-do list.  It started early, but my to-do list has guided...

It's starting to happen.  Almost in disbelief, I'm watching as early March brings almost a full week already of consistently warm...

Well. If I had words to describe the awesome serendipitousness of this past weekend on our trip to Oprah's After-Oscar Show, I'd use...

My desk is the holding tank for nearly every item on my to-do list.  Real and imagined to-do's, present and future to-do's, things to...

My dream is to be Independently Wealthy.  I know, I know...who wouldn't want that?  But it's not just about having enough money that I...

Ryan and I used to have phases of playing a game called "would you rather...".  Initially it started as my attempt to get into his then...

Several years ago I stumbled (almost literally) across the work of author and "godmother of life coaching", Barbara Sher.  I was in the...

...and I didn't get to writing my blog yesterday, for my self-promised five-days-a-week of entries.  Intending them to generally be done...

Hopefully you're familiar with that Sesame Street song, or my title will make no sense at all.  Today I had a guy from REEP (Residential...

As I begin to write this, it's 4:28am. I've been awake for nearly two hours. A bursting bladder called me to rise just after 2:30 this...

This morning I went for a walk after shovelling my driveway.  Not much snow coming down, more the little pellet-type snow than flakes,...

In keeping with the headline spirit of today's triple-header entry, to catch myself up to today, the word "bliss" came to mind. ...

This is the first of two catch-up posts I'm doing today before I post my regular "Monday" entry.  As I was away on my Groundhog Day...

So yesterday, February 2nd was Groundhog Day. Of course just writing at my whim, I wasn't thinking about this yesterday until AFTER I...

What a blast we had this weekend.  Just an overall great combination of puttering unscheduled around the house, and some good family fun...

In our family, my sister got all the animal-loving genes.  We always had pets while growing up, and though I didn't mind them, I...