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Road Trip to Elk Rapids, Petosky and Harbor Springs
DAY 2 Today we took a drive up the Lake Michigan coast to check out Elk Rapids, Charlevoix, Petosky and Harbor Springs. It’s surprising that I’ve never made it up to these places (that I can remember). It was another gorgeous sunny day and part of me wondered if we...
The Trek to Traverse Begins
DAY 1 What really should be a six hour trip ended up taking my husband Kurt and I about 10 hours. Yes – we had a lot of stops but not enough to make up for the missing four hours. One of the first stops we made (after a quick lunch in Michigan City, Indiana, and at...
7 Steps to Create the Life You Want
We all want to be living the life that we want but many of us don’t know how to make that a reality. We get stuck into thinking life needs to be a certain way because that’s how it’s been for our parents and that’s how it’s being for our friends. It takes guts and...
10 Ways to Discover Inner Peace
Life is chaotic. Especially here in the States where everything is so rushed and results are expected immediately. Everyone’s on the go, impatient and running around like mad, causing anxiety and anger to rage. It’s easy to get caught up in this madness, to feel...
How to not freak out about running out of time
If you’re anything like me, you have a to do list a million miles long with new things being added constantly and no time to get it all done. It can get challenging to figure out what to tackle first and what needs to be a high priority. It’s easy to get overwhelmed,...
Your idea starts with a single step
I found this inspiring video of entrepreneur Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, an innovative website that allows you to host and rent space all over the globe, discussing how you can launch an idea in a single step. Start at 7:30 to jump right into the exercise or...
Day 8 or am I really doing this?
Today marks the one week mark of my going dairy, gluten, sugar, processed foods and starchy veggies free. It's been a challenge (I'm not going to lie) but it's also been good. My skin has never felt softer. And although the scale says I've only lost two pounds (which...
Day 4 or learning stuff
I am quickly learning that the best way to make smooth smoothies with my Ninja Professional is to mix it all up using the single serving cup versus the big blender. For some reason the big blender leaves my smoothies with a grittiness that is not at all...
Day 3 or God I’m hungry!
Yes, I'll admit it. I'm starving. Have been hungry all day. I'm probably not snacking enough (something I need to do here in a minute). When I start something new like this, I tend to go to the lets-not-eat-nearly-anything extreme even though I know that's not...
Day 2 or being adventuresome with food
Since my normal is to have eggs every day (usually fried sunny side up in butter), I decided to try poaching eggs this morning as a fat-free way to have eggs. Yes, I know there's boiled eggs (and I have some in the fridge) but I thought poaching would be cool. There's...
Day 1 or what the hell was I thinking?
Starting something new is rarely ever easy, especially when it's asking you to break out of your routine and try something that you're not sure how you're going to like. That was me this morning. Woke up starving. Fed the cats first (otherwise they'd be whining at...
My 30 day cleanse – the warm up
Yes – I'm giving into the new year push to get more fit and healthy. I've been thinking about doing something to clean up the way I've been eating (too many fatty fried foods) and thought now is the perfect time. Me and every other American (almost). Even my husband...
Happy New Year Playlist
I am so excited to ring in 2015 that I put together a very extended New Year's Eve playlist to help usher the new year in and had to share it with you. I'm very into music and included an eclectic mix of artists: B52s to Robin Thicke to the Von Bondies to Ne-Yo. All...
The Competitive Foursome
I am over the moon about this video and these super talented ladies. I've watched it several times and encourage you to do the same. I know you're thinking "how fun can a bunch of girls playing the violin be?" Let yourself be surprised!
Thinking about death
Thinking about death today as I learned on Facebook today that a distant acquaintance of mine passed away from cancer at only 54 years old. I hadn't seen her in years (am thinking at least eight) but that doesn't diminish the impact she made on me by being a warm and...
