Raising Healthy Children

Growing up healthy is something that we all want for our children.  Taking healthy steps along the way will help ensure that process is successful.  Do you remember the phrase “Garbage in, garbage out”?  When you consider that we are what we...

The Walrus and the Carpenter

I love books! I am not a speedy reader, because I dissect every word and sentence, to take it all in. But, I love to read! I  love old books, too. One of my prize books, which was given to me, found while helping to clean out an attic, is a 1960 first edition of...

Summer Time with Teens and Tweens

Summer Time with Teens and Tweens    By: Lois Breit Summer has begun and your teens and tweens are at home, but you are not!  This season adds stress to all working mothers.  When your tween has out-grown child care, your fear-mometer levels...

Ready, Set, Goals!

Lose weight!  Stop smoking!  Join a health club!  But most of our best intentions are forgotten within days.  Then it’s back to that let-down feeling of having failed again. There is a big difference between making resolutions and prayerfully arriving at God-inspired...

A Husband is Not a Financial Plan!

A 25-year-old college-educated woman earns $523,000 less over her lifetime than her male counterpart according to Americans for a Secure Retirement, “The Female Factor,” September 2005. Less earnings then translate into less Social Security and pension...