Changes in body, exercise and weight …

This week I met with my personal trainer who is now taking me to Phase II if you will of my exercise routine and getting my body as healthy as possible. With some recent tweaking of my diet by my nutrionalist, I am now only 21 pounds away from having … Continue reading

My AMAZING Grass Story – Part 6 of 6: Dominique’s Amazing Smoothies

If you haven’t read the first five parts of my story, you can catch up by going to, the INCIDENT , Repercussive CONSEQUENCES , Slippery SLOPE , ONE year later and Benefits and Bonuses. I now find myself at the end of this six part series and I am a … Continue reading

My AMAZING Grass Story – Part 4 of 6: ONE year later

If you haven’t read the first three parts of my story, you can catch up by going to, the INCIDENT , Repercussive CONSEQUENCES and Slippery SLOPE. There is something about meeting your immortality face to face. Often our time on earth is not something we give much thought too.  However, … Continue reading

How I Started MY Weight Loss Journey

Every once in a while I will get a comment from one of my readers that becomes great fodder for a post. Tamara, author of, Empty Thoughts, Rewritten, left this comment recently. Lately I have been thinking a lot about diet and wondering how changing it could help me. However, … Continue reading

food INPUT Dictates (energy) OUTPUT thus MORE quality DAYS

The past few weeks I have been working with a nutrionalist and trying to figure out how to increase my caloric intake as well as fill in the holes in my diet. I originally started out using livestrong.com diary journal but it just didn’t work in my brain. So I … Continue reading

Running the ME/FMS Marathon … to Win

After living with Fibromyalgia (FMS) and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) since December 1992, I have tried everything and anything I can think of.  My progress has been one of great highs, and also, some incredibly scary lows. In the beginning, I like so many, navigated this journey by going to doctor … Continue reading

Attack on Herbal Supplements!

This post is a little different than my normal posts, but I felt this was very important to get out to all my readers and friends. Hat tip to sodahead.com for posting this letter from the Sunshine Health Freedom Foundation.  I thought I would post a portion of it here … Continue reading

FOUR life-lessons my PUGS taught ME

The view out my window is lovely today.  The water looks blue (and that doesn’t happen all too often as the Arkansas river is muddy water!) and the sky has this woven pattern of pale blue and white ribbons.  The snow is almost gone and the wildlife on the bird … Continue reading

The Spoon Theory

I sit here  in the early hours of the day, sipping a cup of my favorite tea from England -  PG Tips – while Dekker lies comfortably snuggled  up on my lap, quietly snoring away.  As I look out the window of my view, fog has blanketed our fair city.   … Continue reading

To be (in pain) or not to be

Well…today is a better day.  I am always thankful for those “new mercies” when they arrive.  As I sit here looking out beyond my 4Walls at my incredible view, I am thankful that even when I am unable to spend much time outside, I have a beautiful view to look … Continue reading