People under severe physical or emotional stress or with poor social support are more vulnerable to injury, mental imbalance and physical disorders. Caring for those of us who have more to deal with is part of a healthy community. However, many people would agree that true community is difficult to find these days. So what…
When I saw the graphic Gwyneth Paltrow posted of how much healthy food $29 would buy a person for a week, I nodded and thought, yep, a day and a half, maybe longer, is all my husband and I would get out of it. I understood that the picture was of healthy food because one of…
One of the things that concerns me the most about aging is staying physically fit in a moderate, healthy and effective way. A dual focus of that concern is keeping my arms and back in shape while strengthening my core; the first so that I do not have the dreaded “bingo wings” and the second…
I was not quite seven years old, when we moved, my mum, dad and baby brother Grant from Hayes – then on the edges of London, now swallowed up by Greater London itself – down to a little seaside town in Sussex, on the South Coast of England. Littlehampton, the town, was a great change…
A lot of people share photos of themselves, their families and their environments online. For the most part, people don’t give it a second thought, that is, until they discover their photo has been posted in a place or in a context they never intended and don’t agree with. Having your photo stolen or shared…