My son is learning his colors, so we spend a lot of time talking about “wed”, “lellow”, “gween”, and “bwue”. This weekend we went out for a walk with the camera for the first time in awhile and couldn’t believe how many beautiful flowers are blooming right now. It’s an explosion of color.
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I used to run a few miles every morning. On the rare days I didn’t run, I swam laps, played tennis, hiked in the woods, or went on a bike ride. And I owned a library of yoga and pilates DVDs. These days I hardly even think about exercise, and the tennis rackets and workout…
From 2002 to 2005, UCLA researchers videotaped 32 dual-income, multiple-child, middle-class American families for a week. They also noted the family members’ locations in the house and measured their stress levels with routine saliva tests. The research team, which represented a range of disciplines, spent the next five years pouring over the resulting 1,540 hours…
(The first in a series highlighting U.S. Movements to celebrate, support, and spread the word about.) Americans, along with Australians and Japanese, lead the industrialized world when it comes to the number of hours we log on the job. We work a full nine weeks more per year than most Western Europeans. And we’re guaranteed no paid sick,…
What should you eat for optimal health? That question has inspired wildly contradictory dietary trends from Low-fat to Raw Vegan to Paleo to Keto, each backed by health claims and scientific studies. However, nobody will ever discover a one-size-fits-all optimal human diet because we didn’t evolve to eat the same thing. Throughout most of history,…
I’ll be taking the next week off to celebrate the First Day of Winter and the Christmas holiday with my family. I’ll be back next week. Happy Holidays! Save
I’ve been stirring things up on Shareable.net for the last few days talking about Alfie Kohn’s book No Contest: The Case Against Competition and some of his ideas for raising more cooperative, less competitive kids. My post begins: In 2008, an interviewer admitted to Alfie Kohn that she considers herself a competitive person. “As long…
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Beautiful photographs ! More, more …
Lovely shots. It is heading towards Spring Down Under, so we are starting to see more flowers too.
Wow! Those are nice shots.