Serenity

Waking up to this view this morning feels so serene to me. The birthday girls were still asleep when I awoke bright and early. I tiptoed to the kitchen, made a cup of herb tea and came back to bed to watch as the wafts of mist rose from the lake covering the lake making…

Hitting the Road today

  We are hitting the road today for a weekend trip to the Ozarks.  We being my bff, her twin and yours truly.  The three musketeers.  It’s been a while since we had a trip but this year, we decided to head off to celebrate their birthday weekend.  No husbands or boyfriends allowed, just a…

Beauty of fall

” Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower” -Albert Camus

Why I hate summer.

I looked wistfully at the deck and wondered vaguely why I don’t sit there any more. It’s a beautiful deck, well shaded. And I used to sit here quite often a few years back. Was it the grief I’d been dealing with back to back: personal grief, a bad break up, a good friend passing…

Terrible, thanks for asking.

There’s a podcast I found a few months ago with this very name. It’s about those days or times when you feel terrible after loss, grief etc etc and someone asks you how are you? And really you feel terrible but say fine anyway. This is where I am. Where I have been for the…

Keto Newbie AND 5 lbs Gone in 2 Weeks!

So, I happened to be browsing on Netflix a couple of weeks ago and came across this  movie that really  piqued my interest on the ketogenic diet.  And as any avid reader would do, I have been reading and researching about this and other low carbohydrate (carb) intake diets in general. To recap, low carb…

Ketogenic anyone?

Two days ago, I stumbled across the documentary, The Magic Pill on Netflix and found it to be so fascinating. Briefly, the hypothesis behind this documentary is that our bodies are more adept at using fat for fuel than it is at using carbohydrates. According to the documentary, humans actually evolved eating mostly meat, vegetables…