Lily
Ring Out The Old…
Here we are again—getting ready to wrap up another year. Lily and Z have shared a lot with us in 2011. Because January is almost here and we’re busy getting ready for 2012, we thought we’d give you a chance to look back at 2011 and see if you missed anything.
In January it was time to know your numbers. Everything from calories to blood sugar to taxes was discussed. Then take a look at your BMI and weight.
Guest writer Chitoka Webb offered advice on how to love the skin you’re in. You should also check out the February archives if [...] Read More
Depression at the Holidays
I guess I’m more “Blue Christmas” than “Winter Wonderland” lately. I don’t have anyone to conspire with by my non-existent fireplace. Truth be told, I don’t even have anyone in particular whose absence I can lament. It’s the sort of omission in my life that seems sharper in such a festive season, when there’s just so much freaking pressure to be merry and bright.
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Getting Ready For The Holidays
Ask most people about their gift-giving woes and they’ll tell you: It’s the men in their lives. They just can’t shop for a father with no hobbies, a boyfriend who only likes expensive gadgets or a 14-year-old boy who speaks in monosyllabic grunts and doesn’t admit to liking anything. But in my life? It’s quite the opposite. [...] Read More
Making Memories—Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Imagine what it would be like if you forgot how to tie your shoes. You just woke up one day, and you couldn’t remember. Would you just say screw it and put on a pair of loafers, or would you sit on the edge of the bed for a long time, staring at your feet, wondering why you couldn’t summon up the steps to one of the first things you learned to do as a child? [...] Read More
Fiber and Bowel Health
My friends and I must have made one joke too many about those Jamie Lee Curtis yogurt commercials, because it looks like I’m experiencing a little karmic retribution. Three days and counting, to be painfully precise. [...] Read More
Walking For Fitness
It’s a little too easy for some of us to figuratively fall off the treadmill. I’m pretty good at getting an exercise routine rhythm going, but I find myself getting derailed at the drop of a hat (read: drink invitation). [...] Read More
Bladder Health
NAME: Lily
STATUS: Enjoying every second of this fall weather
PEEVE: Girls who wear makeup at the gym
GLEE: Those commercials with the giant dancing hamsters
The beautiful thing about the Internet is that so much information is available. The problem with the Internet is that so much information is available. For instance, after a recent late-night body function issue – why do these things always happen after 11 p.m. on a Sunday or a holiday? – I had myself convinced that I was either exhibiting early signs of MS or quite possibly stage 1 prostate cancer.
But no, what I really had was a [...] Read More
Following Your Passions
NAME: Lily
STATUS: Teaching my mom about Twitter
PEEVE: People who get everything they want, when they want it
GLEE: Matinee movie pricing
There’s a popular saying among career-in-betweeners these days: Do what you love, and the money will follow.
That’s all very well and good, if what you love is, say, investment banking. Or if you have a trust fund that allows you to start up your very own mobile cat-grooming business.
But what if what you love is something you happen to be terrible at, or something everyone loves, or something that’s either fiscally or physically impossible? I suppose the idea is to put [...] Read More
Healthy Heart
NAME: Lily
TOPIC: Heart health
STATUS: Listening to the rain fall
GOAL: More cardio
PEEVE: Chipped manicure
GLEE: Fall is in sight
When one person in the household goes on a diet, everybody goes on a diet. Which is not such a terrible thing, really, since we could all stand to be in better shape. I’ve swapped my gummy bears for grapes, I no longer mindlessly munch on chips & salsa in front of the TV and I can’t remember the last time we had white bread in the house.
Basically, dear sister Rose caught Healthy Eating Fever after talking to Mom and Dad a couple of [...] Read More
Sleep: Insomnia
NAME: Lily
TOPIC: Sleep
STATUS: Awake when everyone else is asleep
GOAL: 8 solid hours of shut-eye
PEEVE: Family
GLEE: Family
If it weren’t for bad sleep, I’d get no sleep at all, to borrow a turn of phrase. It’s 3 a.m. as I write this, and I’m going on at least five nights in a row of this crazy, all-consuming insomnia. Some nights, I literally don’t get sleepy until the sun rises. Other nights, I go to bed tired, sleep for an hour or two, and then pop wide awake.
It’s not as though I have a full-time job that’s stressing me out, so really it [...] Read More
