Health and Fitness

We’re at the end of the first quarter of 2016. How are your goals going? This year I’ve made it my mission to get in the shape of my life and enter my first figure competition in the [...]

Guest Post: Kaitlin Gardner, editor An Apple Per Day  The family just finished Thanksgiving dinner, and boy, does that pecan pie look great. It’s easy to justify having a slice – after all, it’s [...]

Would you know the difference between the flu and a heart attack? Three years ago Dr. D. lost his mother to a heart attack. If I had known three years ago what I know today, I would have insisted [...]

It was a play date that started out pretty much like all play dates.  D2 and his pre-school classmate Meena were playing in the tee pee in his room. Meena’s mom and I were chilling out in [...]

It’s been an unusually soggy summer for us here in North Carolina. We have all of the typical heat and humidity of the Southeast plus but with lots of late afternoon tropical showers. While [...]

  How do you bounce back after a major life setback? This is the question I’ve been pondering in the weeks since my brother died and as I recover from my third consecutive miscarriage. [...]

Dear friends, it’s hard to believe that 2012 has come and gone. My heartfelt thanks for all the support you’ve shown me in the past year and especially in the last month since my [...]

On Saturday, December 8th my brother Bartholomew Williams, Bart to us, was shot and killed by Cal State San Bernardino campus police at his housing complex. My mother awakened me at 2:00am [...]

  Here’s a quick challenge. Log onto your Facebook page and look at the last few months of photos. How many of those photos are of your kids? How many of those photos are you in? Now [...]

     Admit it. When you think of canning what comes to mind? That suspicious looking jar of chow chow your Aunt Edna gave you three years ago that you haven’t had the courage to open?    I [...]