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Balanced Living
When I was lying in bed on Saturday morning just relishing the fact that my first obligation didn’t start until 3pm (our end-of-year class pool party), I looked at the bookshelf next to my bed and spotted a book I haven’t picked up in a while: Integrative Nutrition: Feeding Your Hunger for Health & Happiness.It’s a dense book–not one that’s amenable to skimming–but I decided to skim it anyway. I found a chapter on “Primary Food,” and this quote resonated with me:
… Read More“Primary food is more than what is on your plate. Healthy relationships, regular physical activity, a fulfilling career and a spiritual practice can fill your soul -
Summer Plans
My brother and me two summers ago in the mountains of ColoradoIf my obsessive planning rubs you the wrong way or if you think I overextend myself and need to relax more, you might not want to read this post.
Just saying.
You see, during the boring minutes of my photography workshop (which was only about 15 minutes out of an entire day), I decided to finalize my list of what I want to do with my wide-open summer (thank you to the antiquated K-12 educational system that still has us on an agrarian schedule!).
I started brainstorming a list a while back, but I wanted to solidify it, … Read More
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Questions to Ask a Midwife
Matt got home unexpectedly early this evening, so we decided to trek to the Houston Arboretum for a free walk (with Hoss, of course) through the tree-lined paths. Heavenly!Afterward, we decided to skip our yellow split-pea meal for the evening and instead head to one of our local restaurants.
Over dinner, I asked Matt if we could brainstorm some questions for our visit with the midwife next week. Occasionally, my thorough planning gets on his nerves (mainly when he’s trying to do something else and I’m asking for his input), but tonight he was up for it.
Here’s what we came up with:
- What are the things that can
