by Jamie Farnsworth, Guest Blogger, 7th grade, Friends School of Minnesota
In early October, the 7th and 8th graders at my school take a 5 day, 4 night trip up to Finland, Minnesota and stay at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center. We spend one week doing all sorts of things that are related to the environment. [...]
I had the most unexpected thing happen to me today. Instead of looking down, I looked up. And I was delighted by what I saw.
I went out for a quick bike ride, taking a break from the accounting and inventory I was doing. I was deep in thought, going over details in my [...]
Comments(0) A week and a half ago I slipped and fell off the outrageous shoes pictured to the right.
Within an hour I could barely walk. My right foot was swollen and fast turning black and blue. Ice, elevation and Advil did little to help. It was a bad sprain.
My kids helped me hobble around the [...]
Comments(0) by Matt Bierschbach, L. Ac., Guest Blogger
Who cares about breath…
So I’m trapped under the water, like being trapped in a giant front loading washer on a super-turbo speed setting. I was well out of breath and just about to have that reflexive inhale kick-in (ya know, the one that makes you lose a breath holding [...]
Anyone who has had to deal with infertility, or knows someone who has, knows what a rollercoaster ride it is. One day you are up. The next you are down. Raging hormones - often manipulated to the extreme - exacerbate the situation.
When I was trying to get pregnant, it was not uncommon [...]
The thing about being a blogger is it keeps you honest. If you write in a journal and keep it hidden in your desk drawer, no one sees it or reads it but you. If you blog, you are saying “Hello World! Here is what I am thinking, doing, hoping, feeling.” Maybe [...]
Read More..>>by Elizabeth Potter, Guest Blogger
I used to have panic attacks. I was completely incapable of any form of relaxation at the time – I couldn’t sit to read a book, watch a movie, and was barely able to fall asleep at night. The second I felt my breath quiet and heartbeat slow, my [...]
Read More..>>Last weekend, I took my 15 year-old daughters to see the movie Food, Inc. The film is a documentary explaining, and exposing, how food in America gets from the farm to the fridge. If you have read any of the many books on the market today exploring what has happened to the American [...]
Read More..>>It seems like just a few weeks ago I wrote a blog post on New Year’s resolutions and my word for 2009: balance.
In December, in addition to admitting I am a workaholic, I wrote: “I want more balance in my life. Not perfect harmony. Just more exercise, more time for reading, more time with the [...]
by Lynn Jaffee, Guest Blogger
Our relationship with balance is much like moving back and forth on a swing in the back yard. If you think of balance as that point in which the swing is closest to the ground, you will realize that you pass through that place only momentarily.
The higher you swing, the [...]
