Dear Diary

I really like Rabi Daniel Lapin. Today’s email blast struck a chord on something I wanted to just mention an idea on.
I used to keep a diary. Trust me, it was a scary thing. I’m terribly embarrassed by it, now and have thought of creative ways to destroy the volumes of terrible emotional venting. I [...]

Restaurant Review – Stevie Rays of Colorado Springs

I enjoy restaurants that make effort in providing healthy and natural dishes. Stevie Ray’s Eastside Grill is one of the few mainstream restaurants that put forth this effort.
It’s “mainstream” because it’s not another Adams Mountain Cafe, Dale Street Cafe, Gertrudes or Olive Branch. In other words, it doesn’t appear to cater specifically to health nuts. [...]

The Getting Old Delimna

Today I pulled a hair from my head. It was a color that, until this year, had been foreign to my scalp – it was grey. But it wasn’t fully grey. One third of the hair was grey, one third was a deep brown brown and the middle third was a transition. It measured 9 [...]

October 1st – World Vegetarian Day

October 1st is World Vegetarian Day. It started in 1977 to bring awareness of the benefits of living a vegetarian life style ranging from the treatment of animals to health importance.
Other than veggies I enjoy a good fish, which technically makes me a pescitarian. I’m not disturbed by bear rugs or mink coats but [...]

Twenty touches

Each night my children and I spend anywhere between fifteen minutes and two hours together. Most of that time is spent reading before bedtime, but that time is also used to reconnect.
Many years ago, my wife and I attended a Gary Smalley seminar where he briefly mentioned the importance of touch. It’s something we all [...]

Meditation

“Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praise-worthy — meditate on these things.” – PHIL 4:8
I am very lured to talk about the incessant corruption evident [...]

Organic Pick-Your-Own Farms

A large windmill spun overhead as we pulled in past the gate. Parking our van we quickly spied over the metal bar fence. Picnic tables adorned the lawn to the side of a large red barn. Nestled on the barn’s porch were white rocking chairs and a table with a box of freshly pulled garlic [...]

Time

Maybe by getting older and having kids, time has become more valuable. I didn’t think much of it as a kid, hence the often yelled “We’re Waiting On You!” phrase that I heard growing up.
But as I was sifting through some well kept day planner pages from 2001 and 2002 I realized something. For two [...]

allez-oop

It’s no secret that sitting in front of a monitor and keyboard for eight to twelve hours a day, six days a week causes a myriad of health risks.
Some of the obvious ones are:

Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) such as carpal tunnel
High Blood Pressure
Obesity
Thrombosis
Even Sudden Death

Exercise hasn’t been so lacking in our nation’s 240 years.
Simply [...]