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Why you should eat less sugar…

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I just realized something. I love sugar. I love cookies. I love cupcakes.

Don’t you? I mean… it just gives you this amazing feeling and it tastes so darn good. At the moment I am craving Birthday Cake Oreos (and something that makes it even harder to resist is that I know we have some up in our cupboard.)

This week my boyfriend and I are taking part in a challenge to have an “Extra” Sugar Free Week and let me just tell you. It is harder than it sounds. Along time ago I gave up pop and I thought that was hard, but now I seem to always find my mind wandering to cookies and yummies… Not so much candy and such, but you know the good ole’ baked goods? Yes. I liked homemade yummies.

Maybe you want to give up “Extra” Sugar? Or maybe you don’t want to eat as much sugar? If you found yourself nodding your head to one of these questions then I have some ideas and things that may help you.  [Read more...]

Why you should set goals…

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00c53ae76811be06e7144ecadd706a02There are things I know I have to finish and get done, but then I tend to put them off to the last moment? I just started thinking about these things this week, because of the Health Challenge, I’ve been doing.

The Health Challenge this week was making sure I drink enough water each day. Each day I’ve gotten up earlier and I’ve also felt more energetic and all because I’ve been watching my calorie intake (food journal), drinking more water, and eating greener foods, less sugars and starches, and last, but not least I’ve done some form of exercise everyday for at least 30-45 minutes along with some strength training to build muscle. It’s also helped because I have an accountability partner and others that encourage me along the way. Becoming healthy isn’t achieved through dieting… it’s a lifestyle change. [Read more...]

Why You Should Be Drinking More?

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Photo Credit : Johan Joubert

Photo Credit : Johan Joubert

And just so, you know… I am talking about water… why you should be drinking more water.

Yesterday I started a 5-week health challenge. 

This week’s goal besides working out is, drinking enough water a day. It said we have to drink 64 ounces of water a day. That is actually how much a person should always have per day. You will understand more once you’ve read the stats on water and how much of a percentage of it is in our bodies. Next week, the challenge will be NO sweets. Oh, boy that one will be tough.

Health has been something I have been thinking about for awhile. I want to be in top shape, so that I can have the best life and the longest life possible. Going out and about I have seen that our world today has slightly flopped. People don’t really care about themselves as much anymore. They eat way too much. When I was in Vegas, I saw a food place called “Heart Attack Grill” that sells super unhealthy food. They actually allow people who weigh 350 lbs or more to eat free. I mean if that doesn’t frighten you the name of their burgers (Single, Double, Triple, Quadruple Bypass Burger) and what they use to make their shakes sure should (they use butter… in shakes… -_-). Just the thought grosses me out.

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What To Do With The Craziness of The World?

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Our World…

Being a creative and compassionate person, I sometimes find it difficult living in this time and age. Do you ever feel that way too, sometimes?

I once walked into a Michaels Art Store and there were so many things jumping out at me. Not literally, but there were so many colors and objects that in a way fought against each other. My senses were put on overdrive. Bright colors were bursting out at me from the shelves. Other shelves were crowded with an assortment of things. On the top shelves of the yarn department, in the back there were buckets and ceramic planters stacked on top of each other. Yes, that walk through Michael’s wasn’t that inspiring. It was more mind boggling and tiring than anything else.

It seems that is how it is with our world today too. Just like my Michaels experience, The News and Radio stations are always reporting on small issues like what Kim Kardashian is doing this week. Then, they are also reporting on issues of larger importance that need to be solved. Like what we will do about Benghazi and who is to blame. Abortion Doctors who are getting away with murder. (Sad, that this play on words is, quite the truth.) Then the President, doesn’t want people calling the Boston bombers, Terrorists because it isn’t politically correct.

These are all topics I could go on and on about, but I don’t want to throw so many things in the second paragraph. All these things leave me feeling like our world is going into a sink hole and it leaves me with a serious question.

What can I do?

What can little ole’ me do in this big confused world?

Do you ever feel this way too?

If so, I have some ideas and tips that might help you.  [Read more...]

Guest Post with Erin Healy – The Problem with Self-Editing

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creativity-1_lToday I received this e-mail query from the editor who’s neck deep in my latest manuscript: “Erin, can the principal be named Walter rather than Walters, so’s we can avoid the whole ‘Mr. Walters’s office’ bit? Or are you feeling defiant and thumbing your nose at 7.16?”

Yes, she really did write “so’s.” We editors do thumb our noses at convention when we can.

The 7.16 reference is to a Chicago Manual of Style rule, which says an S should be added to the possessive form of proper names ending in an S, X, or Z. In other words, I should have written Walters’s, even though it looks and sounds bad. Instead I wrote Walters’, reflexively following a different rule I had learned in college. Of course, I should have known better.

I hear you yawning over this triviality of correct punctuation. Don’t fall asleep yet. There’s something here for you.
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Why You Should WRITE With More Conflict…

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Photo Credit : The Walking Dead – AMC

Writing Conflict

Television Shows Anyone?

I am fond of certain television shows.

How about you?

Do you ever have moments where you wish you were as good of a writer as some of those script writers?

Do you

want

to WRITE so well

You PULL your readers

into the story,

without them knowing?

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Short Story – The Collectibles

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The Collectibles

Devin Berglund

 

A bit later. It was amazing how fast the sun peaked over the horizon. It was so nice, and we listened to "Here comes the sun..." by the Beatles. It totally fit the mood. :)

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Four were still needed to complete his collection. He had already collected a few. They looked at him from on top of his desk. He gently tapped each of them on the head with his crooked finger. Their heads bobbed back and forth to life until they weren’t moving anymore. He laughed and grabbed his white phantom mask and his black cape before leaving the house.

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Thoughts on the Past Week

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“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.” -Matthew 5:14-15

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How To Peace Together
a Broken World

This post has been really hard to write. Sometimes words come out of me so easily, but then other times when tough things happen it’s like my words sizzle into nothing like water on scorching hot rock… disappearing. Click to Continue

4 Reasons Why You Should Implement ‘The Golden Rule’ into Your Life

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Tess in her Good Ole' Days

My mom told me a story about when I was little – I hadn’t remembered it.

I was about 8-years-old when it happened. There was a girl who was a little older than me. She girl was being picked on. Older kids were throwing sticks and stones at her while calling her mean names. I walked over to this group and told them to stop it. My mom told me that the kids stopped when I told them to. When I heard this story about myself as a young child – I was happy that even though I hadn’t remembered it, I  had made a difference in that girl’s life at that moment.

I guess that is always what kind of a person I’ve been. Where ever a person was being picked on I’d have a huge sense of conviction. That I needed to help them. And, I bet you can imagine, that didn’t exactly make me popular. It didn’t. And I got my share of bulling as well. There were definitely moments I had hoped someone would have stepped in like I had so many years before for that other girl in the park. Click to Continue

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