I’ve lost 20 lbs. and reached my goal!  Click here to see my before picture when I started this adventure.  Weight Watchers has my vote.  Believe me there were days when I could have eaten a dozen apple fritters from Tim Hortons topped off with a large DQ Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Blizzard.  But I [...]

Be true to yourself.  That’s been my mantra for most of my life.  Was Gayle Haggard true to herself when she stayed with her husband, world-renowned evangelist Ted Haggard after his scandolous confession of sexual indiscretion with a man and illicit drug use?  After reading her book, Why I Stayed,  I believe she was. Ted [...]

“Spa” is my middle name!  Add delectable cuisine in a breathtaking 19th Century mansion and I’m in heaven!  But this hideaway has a unique twist.  Memories Manor is an exclusive retreat designed for ladies that love to scrapbook!  This St. Clair, Michigan treasure was home for a blissful weekend in mid-March for January,  Leanne, Judy, and [...]

You’d think I’d have learned by now to “walk not run” down the stairs.  Well I guess I hadn’t…until yesterday.  I stupidly ran down the stairs and tripped on the final two steps.  I’ve learned my lesson this time after five hours in Emergency, several gruelling x-rays with a final diagnosis of a chipped ankle bone [...]

I’ve spent the better part of the winter parked in front of my TV watching contestants sing, dance, cry, starve and backstab.  Yep.  Sad but true.  And you know I’ve found that TV and eating seem to go hand in hand.  Or should I say hand to mouth!  No wonder my pants were too tight [...]

Some of my family’s most memorable occasions are celebrated around my mother’s long dining room table.  I say long because we set a card table up at the end of it because the table has failed to grow with the family.  So on Easter Sunday, my sixteen-year-old nephew, our dear friend Don (the oldest gentleman [...]

There are moments in life that no matter how many people are all around you, you are still alone.  I came to that realization as I sat in my oversized hospital gown waiting for the x-ray tech to return from that mysterious place down the long hall where a faceless stranger determines your fate. “We [...]

I’d like to honour two outstanding women over 40 that have set the bar high for the rest of us! I find their achievements inspiring and I know that if we believe in ourselves, there isn’t anything we can’t do. One woman crashed through the film industry’s glass ceiling last Sunday. Fifty-eight year old Kathryn [...]

My hat goes off to Valerie Bertinelli for standing up for traditional marriage on The View last week.  Barbara Walters revealed that actress Mo’Nique in her pre-Oscar interview told her that she and husband Sidney Hicks have an “open marriage.”  Joy Behar mumbled something about someone being there as important and Sherri Shepherd brought up the fact that [...]

I’ve lost ten pounds!!!  My first weight loss milestone folks!  I’ve encountered a few bumps in the road here and there but haven’t devoured a whole chocolate cake or anything (not that it hasn’t crossed mind)!  I wanted to share a few observations I’ve made about myself and my “rebirth” as a woman with healthy [...]