Muffin tops aren’t just for middle aged women anymore! Men and women of all ages are spilling over their pants in increasing numbers. This phenomenon, known as central adiposity happens when a number of factors collide in your body: 1. Increasingly stressful...
I suppose it was inevitable. The official end of gardening season has arrived. I pulled the last of the kale from my home garden recently, remorsefully. The worst part is that I hate shopping at the supermarket. Its a soul-sucking experience for me when I have to...
Wrinkled fingers and sore feet are the only aspects of canning and preserving that I don’t enjoy. Every September I find myself happily exhausted after a weekend standing in my sister’s kitchen making tomato sauce. My whole family partakes in this tradition that...
Before Christmas, I was sitting in a professional conference, enjoying the speaker, when I caught sight of an old classmate of mine (who frankly, I didn’t like very much). More than ten years earlier, we had had words about something that had come to pass. She made...
Everyone who knows me, knows that I am really into fresh vegetables. I have a vegetable garden at home AND at the cottage and I’ve been known to have an obsession with canning, freezing and preserving. I really can’t think of a vegetable that I don’t like (although...
