WomenHeart I recently had the honor and pleasure of being invited to become a WomenHeart champion. To become a champion, I was trained at the Mayo Clinic.  I was one of 50 women in the country chosen. Everyone in this illustrious group of women either had heart disease or had a cardiac event. In my…

This is a repost from the first blog challenge I started to participate in. It’s still relevant so I am reusing it with some edits and additions. I am currently involved in a 31 day Ultimate Blog Challenge. The challenge is to write a blog post each day for the month of January and post…

Y2K Remember Y2K when all the planes were supposed to fall out of the sky and all the computers in the world would stop functioning at the stroke of midnight? Well here we are nineteen years later…the planes are still flying and the computers are still computing. If we’re still here, we’re all nineteen years…

We were asked to post a video today during this challenge. I have not yet recorded any videos except for some Facebook Lives, so I decided to borrow one I have seen often and still move me when I watch it. I felt the need to use one that inspires me every time I watch…

DO YOU LIKE A CHALLENGE? As I mentioned before, I am participating in a challenge to post a blog entry every day of the 31 days in July. Who doesn’t like a good challenge? I not only accept them as assignments to move forward, but I like to use them to spur people toward their…

LET’S TALK ABOUT SUGAR Do you feel like you need to eat something sweet at certain times of the day? Do you fall into an afternoon slump that you think requires a sugary snack as a pick-me-up? When you have a sweet tooth, do you stop at nothing until you satisfy it? You might be…

Happy Birthday USA! Do you ever use your birthday to reflect on your life and where you would like it to take you? I do that each year on my birthday and on December 31st. I don’t always make the changes I think I should make but I do a little self evaluation. The past…

WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON Here we are on Day #3 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, and now the assignment is to talk about where I am going. As I mentioned in my prior posts, I discovered my passion when I was faced with a significant health challenge almost nine years ago. At that time, and…