When I was a little girl, say 7 years old or so, I often visited the convent of Our Lady of the Snows in Blue Point, Long Island. My father was a ‘druggist’ (old school name for pharmacist), and my mother and I were his ‘delivery girls,’ making drug runs to the nuns whenever needed.…

Good Turn Daily – If you are a true scout, until you have performed your act of kindness your day is dark.  You are as unhappy as is the grown-up who has begun his day without shaving or reading the New York Sun. – Boys’ Life, February 1920 Greetings and Salutations Tushkateers!   I was ‘visiting’…

This week’s GET JIGGY Weight Loss JigSaw Puzzle is entitled “Install Empowering Habits.” I don’t know if you know this or not – but listen up – because this is a ‘learning’ that can change your life. The Learning: You cannot break a habit; you can only create new ones. The bad news:  Those old…

Planning?  What is it good for?  Absolutely everything!  Yet, we resist. There are those of us who exhibit quite a bit of resistance around planning our meals, making time for food shopping, and exercise. Is it really that complicated to buy fruit and vegetables, to ‘throw’ a sandwich together in the morning? Or take an…

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