• Food, Fitness and Health

    Health, Fitness, and Beauty

    Health, fitness, and beauty are topics on which I have recently spent quite a bit of time thinking. It probably has to do with my current season of life more than anything. As a nurse, health has always been a focus for me. Fitness and beauty would have been more in my periphery. But changes in my health were a wake up call, and searching for some answers led me to discover some valuable ways of thinking and looking at health, fitness, and beauty as more of a group rather than separate topics. Actually, looking at our lives holistically, most things are intertwined. Our inside (inner) and our outside (external)…

  • Cultural Thoughts,  Marriage and Family

    What Is A Family?

    Many years ago I read Edith Schaeffer’s, “What Is A Family?” It had a profound effect. I had always had a strong view of family, but this enlarged my vision. Edith viewed family life as the crucial environment that encompassed everything from creativity, to security, to spiritual teaching of Truth, economics, education, memories, our most significant human relationships, and all the interplay of ages and changes through the years. It is the foundational place through which life is processed. Now, years later, I look back at my own experience of the richness of family life. My heart is full at the depth and beauty of it all. I wouldn’t trade…