The pressure is on...and I nearly cracked under it. At the end of September, my piano quartet, The Quadratonics, decided to do a Christmas concert. I have two baby grand pianos, so some of the pieces all 4 of us play (2 players per piano), and other pieces we pair up (2 players on one piano, or 1 pl...
My to-do list at any given time has 150-200 items. With the holidays approaching, this goes up exponentially! My body needed a break. My husband, Doug, turned on the TV, and we were binge-watching Christmas movies before I knew it. We watched A Christmas Story Christmas (sequel to A Christmas Story ...
Thanksgiving is a holiday that has become synonymous with gratitude. But how did this happen? The tradition of Thanksgiving dates back to the 17th century when the Pilgrims celebrated their first successful harvest in Plymouth. They invited the Native Americans, who had helped them survive their fir...
I'm in a Master Mind group that meets on Wednesday evenings. I may not actually "master" anything. Still, we discuss many unusual topics in this group that go well beyond hypnosis, hypnotherapy, and language patterns. Currently, we are studying an ancient Chinese system of self-protection that invol...
Halloween is tomorrow, so let's take a few moments between parties and trick-or-treating to clear some of those "cobwebs" in your mind. Cobwebs are those memories that hide in the corners of our minds, collecting dust. Memories we don't let go of yet don't seem to do anything positive for us. Negati...
Doug and I have sponsored the Paradise Lakes Golf Cart Parades for 2 years. We get the fun job of picking themes for the parades. For Halloween this year, I chose The Rocky Horror Picture Showā€¦in honor of my parents, who grounded me for 2 months when I went to see this movie as a senior in high scho...
Last week was my birthday week. I have been feeling so much better health-wise since I got my old amalgam fillings out that I decided to try a piece of a yummy Costco birthday cake. I did not experience ANY pain. Woohoo!
Friends invited us to dinner this past Sunday at an excellent Italian restaura...
I just completed my 54th trip around the sun last week. This birthday was a "simple pleasures" birthday. I took the day off from work and spent quality time with my husband, running errands. One of our "errands" was a trip to the Pinball Museum in Tarpon Springs. I love pinball! We played pinball fo...
With my research on Hashimoto's over this past year, I discovered there may be a link between thyroid health and amalgam fillings. I checked in with my dentist and found I had amalgam fillings, one on each corner of my mouth. I remembered getting these fillings vividly, kicking and screaming the who...
In elementary school, my father would head out on Tuesday evenings to attend "Rotary." All I knew was that it was a businessman's organization, and they did businessman's organization things.
In February of 1996, I was returning my U-Haul to a mini storage place after moving to Florida. I noticed t...
I am juggling a lot of projects right now, and most days, I feel like I canā€™t possibly get everything done. A few weeks ago, I went through my entire To-Do list on an excellent to-do list app called ClickUp and found projects I had given my assistant to do almost a year ago. He did themā€¦But I found ...
I screwed up. I admit it. I fell off the wagon.
Since I discovered I had Hashimotoā€™s hypothyroidism, I have had to drastically change my diet. For over a year, Iā€™ve mostly followed an AIP (Auto-Immune Protocol) Paleo diet, which means I avoid Gluten, Dairy, Soy, Nightshades, Refined Sugars, Caffein...
