A recent experience leads me to write about a different type of topic, this one sharing my learning from a recent hospitalization. This one is different from my blog on sinus health, where I felt I had a lot of experience to share. This one is mainly to share the learning and also GRATITUDE. THANK YOU TO ALL THE NURSES and other medical professionals in our family, even though my care was not provided directly through you, I appreciate your profession all the more after

This blog is the second part in a series, following January's " Boost Energy ". I am summarizing the work of Gretchen Rubin in her book " The Happiness Project " and my reaction to it. I once read a quote that the person we marry is responsible for 90% of our happiness, and I believe that to be true. I also remember my sister Fran telling me that you needed to have a really strong relationship with your spouse BEFORE you had kids, because kids have a way of adding stress t

This is a different type of blog for me. Rather than create original material based on my interests/experience, I am sharing the writing of another person and then my own reaction to it. There are twelve chapters to the book, so I plan to make this the first installment of a 12-part series. Many years ago, I read about this book (The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin) in a magazine article and then went out and bought it and read it. This book was published in 2009, s

I typically wait to blog about a topic until I feel I have some level of expertise, and in the last six months I have spent a lot of time...