Dancing with the Stars is a good example of what you can do with your body if you put your mind to it. But it’s also becoming an example of just how fragile your body is. The contestants on the show have been getting injured so badly that they implemented a new rule where contestants can only practice a maximum of five hours per day. (Only. Five hours is quite a lot if you’re not in the best shape.)

The contestants they have chosen are of all different fitness levels. Just yesterday, Tom DeLay has indicated …read more

…to express what I feel, as I read news articles on the quake in China. Surveying the images of helpless people, searching for loved ones and buildings reduced to rubble, leaves me nearly speechless.
 
 I cannot even start to imagine how the parents of the missing and dead children must be feeling. How would it feel to know that your child is trapped, possibly still alive, under the ruins of a school house? How excrutiating must it be, to not be allowed access to those ruins, in order to search for your child? Parents are standing by, looking on in desperate hope …read more

But try keeping a child who has ADHD and is recovering from an injury, down for a few days. It is a feat that requires some very creative thinking! During the past few days, I’ve had to keep my son home while he recovered from last Friday’s dog attack. Getting my son to sit still for more than a few minutes is a task that we have trouble with, at times. I had no idea how I was supposed to keep him at rest, without the use of sedation. So I turned to my blogosphere friends for their advice. Here …read more

In light of the problems in our neighborhood, my husband brought up the subject of gun ownership. Guns make me nervous petrified, when I think about them being in our residence. When it comes to owning, operating and storage protocol, I will readily admit that I’m in the dark. I’ve never had to ponder the idea of having a gun in our house. We’ve never felt threatened enough to make it an issue.
 After moving to our current neighborhood, we realized the dangers of buying a brand new home. We had no idea who our neighbors would be. Since we purchased a cheaper …read more