With out your health what do you have? Not much. In my line of work I see it most weeks. Someone who pushed it too hard and their body fell apart. For most of us, me included, work, commitments, hobbies, etc can just get away on us and downtime and rest vanish from our schedule.… (Read More)
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Premature Death and what we can do about it.
40% of premature death is caused by “behavioral patterns”. I was reading a study from University California, San Francisco and they where looking at early death. It is an amazing factor that 40% of people that die young are driving themselves to that party by their daily choices. Now I am fairly sure they do… (Read More)
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The time is Sailing by
Speed is a relative term in sailing. With the new America cup boats going 20-40 knots (sailing jargon for real slow compared to a car) we are able to go as fast as a kid on a peddle bike. The average sailing boat is going 5-10 mph. So a quick walk to a so so… (Read More)
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45 life lessons worth learning
There are some real sit down and think about it lines in here. One of the many things my job has taught me is; some days suck. For some of those days this list can help. Written By Regina Brett.(editing by Ward) 1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. 2. When in doubt, just… (Read More)
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Boats for Hope
This weekend our crew of 12 kids and 6 bigger kids (adults) spent hours and hours turning a normal sail boat into a Pirate Boat. So around 200 kids who are ‘handy-capable’ could come in converted power boats to marauding Pirate boats and steal our treasure. It was all part of the annual Variety Club… (Read More)
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Wait till they are thirty.
When your children are thirty talk (read complain) to them about how tough your childhood was. You will likely get an interesting feedback from your kids, like “well you did that to us.” You will sit there with your mouth open saying something like, “but you don’t understand I had this, that and those reasons.”… (Read More)
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Keeping on Keeping on
The dental implant went okay, but the skin graft donor site. Well that did not go so well and I ended up getting some medical intervention. There I was feeling sorry for my self, I had just started chewing again (previous to that it was all liquid) and things where looking perfect and bang it… (Read More)
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Pain is a good teacher
At 10pm it felt like someone brushed my chin. At 2am it felt like someone punched me in the chin. At 6am I was in my car driving to my doctor’s office. He asked why I was there, I SCREAMED my chin was killing me. He said go to the Dentist. That’s when I learned… (Read More)
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The Power of Downtime
Know any workaholics? Likely you can look in the mirror and there you are. If not you can read on to find out a bit about the inner working of one. For many of us we no longer go out into the wilds and kill supper, drag it back to the shack and cook it… (Read More)
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Kids getting ‘pinned’
Had a great week at work. I treated several children and one 6 year old girl wanted to get pinned, just like her 8 year old brother. I said sure. The youngest client I ever had was 6 weeks old. She had a very bad case of ‘colic’ and all attempts had not worked so… (Read More)