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Keeping Your Busy Family Organized – Ready…5…4..3..2.1
Is family organization a myth, like unicorns? Or are organizational skills something people are born with, like red hair? Neither, anybody can do this, even me. Having a busy family can be chaos at the best of times, but when you have kids, pets, aging parents and...
Creative & Mobile Home Office Ideas
Working from home is a challenge. It can be wonderful and freeing, but it can also be isolating and stressful. Much of my experience working from home has not been by choice, but for health reasons. Most of the information I find about home offices don't apply to me...
Hospitals & Doctors
Caregiving & Friendship
Demystifying The Pain Scale
Ever go to the hospital and they ask you to rate your pain on a scale of 1-10? That is an example of the pain scale at work. This is common practice throughout the medical community to assess pain in patients. There is a lot of debate among practitioners about these...
What I Didn’t Know About Pain Until It Was Gone
Everyone has heard the analogy of the frog in boiling water. I don't know how true it is, but I use it a lot. Especially to describe chronic pain. If you drop a frog in boiling water, he will jump out because it feels hot, but if you put him in cold water and heat it...
Surgery – Common Questions and Fears
Surgery can be daunting. We all get scared, even if we've been through it before. Getting some advance information and preparing yourself will make it easier. Based on my research, these are the most common questions and fears that people have. I hope that eventually...
Rest & Recuperation
Happiness & Resilience
How to be Happy by Living Life Backwards
I just had a wonderful visit with an old friend and realized that life is pretty great. I forget that sometimes, don't you? Everybody is trying to figure out how to be happy, or to find happiness. I found it by Living Life Backwards. Is finding happiness possible or a...
Setting Recuperation Goals
I have recuperated from surgeries and illnesses a lot, and when people hear my medical history they often say: How do you do it!?! Everybody who has been through it knows the answers. But, we are never sure whether people really want to know or are just looking for...
Designing a Bedroom for Rest & Recuperation
If you walk into your bedroom right now, does it make you want to crawl in to bed and read a book? Or does it remind you to do the laundry? Can you even get to your bed? Your sleep and rest space is probably the most important room in your home for your rest and...
Family & Home
Love Spring Cleaning At Last
Every post-holiday brings with it a desire to clear the decks and start fresh. They generate so much clutter. The front hall is piled in bags of old wrapping paper and suitcases, the living room is half consumed by decorations and the dust is piling up, and the...
Time Management’s Top 5
Nobody has enough time. It's not a new problem, but it is getting worse all the time. Every day our expected workload increases. More work with fewer staff, longer commutes, and gone are the days of admins and secretaries. 24 hour communication, endless emails and...
5 1/2 Step Meal Planning Guide
Meal time can be a pain, trying to please everyone; is there a better example of perfection being the enemy? Too often, you get overwhelmed by the planning, making it very difficult to ever accomplish anything, and so you end up ordering pizza, again. Break the cycle...