Tired of standing there first thing in the morning, wearing your bunny slippers and running through your busy day in your mind, all while munching on cereal and staring at the clock? Put down the bowl and mix it up a little. It takes a little preparation but the reward is an actual savings in time all the while getting a healthy and fun start to your day. That’s right, make a breakfast smoothie! Read more…
Eating right, taking care of your body by exercising and eating right not only increases the quality of your life, but it has the potential to do the same for your pets. One easy thing to do to increase the quality of life for your pet is to feed it pet food, not people food. However, it’s a fact of life. You drop any food on the floor while you are preparing a meal, or turn your head for just a minute while eating dinner, and you run the risk of Fido greedily licking up those cookie crumbs or snatching that slice of pizza off your plate. When I was a kid I once accidentally dropped a whole plate of spaghetti on the kitchen floor and BAM!! out of no where Josh-O the dog swooped down on the steaming hot mess of noodle and sauce and didn’t even chew. The food just disappeared. And he was truly sick for days. You don’t need the details. Read more…
It reminded me of watching my sixth grade students emotionally tattle on each other and wag pointed fingers defiantly in each others’ faces when confronted with who broke the coffee cup that sat on my desk. At this week’s U.S. Senate hearings the guests of honor being questioned were the top executives from BP, Halliburton and Transocean. What I heard and saw made my jaw drop. All three were being questioned about the deadly and environmentally disastrous explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the subsequent massive oil leak. Even President Obama called the hearing a “ridiculous spectacle,” because of what he saw and heard.
