This is my new favourite mug. Perhaps it’s the curved shape or the beautiful cobalt blue; something about it just captures me.  If you...

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

We can all benefit from being proactive in tending to our emotional well-being, just like our lawns benefit from the same regular and proactive care. 

Today is Earth Day, so in the spirit of taking an integrated approach to well-being, I’d like to ask you to pause a moment and consider what you’re doing to take care of the Earth and to take care of yourself. And I invite your comments on this thought I’ve been pondering: that the way you take care of Mother Earth can be an analogy for how you take care of yourself. The good news is that the way I see it, in both the case of taking care of the Earth and taking care of yours

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...

My bedroom is like an icebox in the winter.  Compared to the rest of the house, that is.  It sits above my unheated garage, and much as I...

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...

Today finds us at the beginning of the month of March; the beginning of the end of Winter; the beginning of the beginning of Spring. ...

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...

Yesterday: no post.  Reason: detoxification-induced illness.  Seriously?  Yes.  But it's all good. I just started doing hot yoga.  I had...

...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...

I'm writing this entry on my laptop, which is currently stationed in my bedroom at my office desk, which is currently in my bedroom...

Yesterday, in the Province of Ontario, we had a holiday: Family Day.  New to us only two years ago, it comes at a welcome time in the...

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

Friday February 5, 2010 - So I know it's not Friday the 5th.  But this is my "Friday" entry.  I'm sitting here trying to think of a topic...

Today I'm going to renew our passports for my son and I.  To some, the prospect of sitting in the passport office for an hour or two in...

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

Ok so I'm not a sports fan.  Never was, ever.  Never will be. Except when my son plays.  Then I'm in.  :-) He plays house league...

Today I went for my first-ever reflexology treatment.  Oh...my...god.  It is the most incredibly deeply relaxing treatment I may have...