Healthy tip: Gratitude activates your brain’s reward system, boosting dopamine and serotonin—your natural happy chemicals. Translation? More smiles, fewer funks. Practicing gratitude literally rewires your brain for positivity. Each morning, take 60 seconds to mentally list three people you’re grateful for. Bonus: tell one of them. You’ll feel great, and so will they.
There never was a mood of mine,
Gay or heart-broken, luminous or dull,
But you could ease me of its fever
And give it back to me more beautiful.
In many another soul I broke the bread,
And drank the wine and played the happy guest,
But I was lonely, I remembered you;
The heart belong to him who knew it best.
Ken and Jim are driving on the Interstate making good time. The two buddies had been talking about this trip for six months and now it was here. They were heading to Vegas. They planned to spend three days in Vegas and take their wins to California where they’d try to meet some cool surfer girls. They stopped in Kansas City for lunch at a burger joint where they were lured by several road signs that boasted of the biggest burgers west of the Mississippi River. Whoever put the signs up was speaking directly to Ken and Jim. They parked their car, went in and ordered burgers, fries, and milkshakes. They took their food to a booth to discuss a big decision.
Ken: “We got a choice, Jim. We can take I 70 through Kansas, Colorado, and Utah and connect with I-15 into Vegas.”
Jim: “What’s our other choice?”
Ken: “We can take I-35 through Kansas to I-40 in Oklahoma and then take I-40 through Texas and New Mexico and go all the way to Kingman, Arizona, then catch 93 into Vegas. What do you think?”
Ken was driver and navigator. Jim was in charge of music and radio stations and the cooler. It was a combination that worked well for the boys.
Jim: “Best I can remember, Amarillo, Texas, has the 72 ounce steak challenge. You can eat the whole meal including sides, it’s free. I’ve always wanted to try it.”
Ken: “I like i-70 even though we got some big mountains and steep grades to navigate.”
Jim: “Let’s flip a coin. Heads we go your way. Tails my way.”
Ken and Jim? They had their GPS working. You? You’ve got your gut, your values, and hopefully a full tank. Every road leads somewhere—just make sure it’s not a detour you’ll regret. Make good choices and things usually work out. Make poor choices and life can suck. Here’s to good choices. Cheers.
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” ― J.K. Rowling,
Alone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still,
And a heaven full of stars
Over my head
White and topaz
And misty red;
Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
The aeons
Cannot vex or tire;
Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill
I watch them marching
Stately and still.
And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty.
This dish is spicy, satisfying, and secretly heart-healthy. It’s got all the flavor of your favorite Tex Mex dish with none of the blood pressure drama.
Managing blood pressure doesn’t mean skipping the flavor fiesta. With a few smart choices and the right ingredients, you can eat like a Tex Mex rock star and keep your heart in rhythm. Buen provecho, amigos!
Healthy Tip: Gratitude: it won’t replace your flu shot, but it might keep you from turning into a tissue tornado. Grateful folks sleep better, stress less, and have stronger immune systems. All of that translates into fewer colds and infections. Before you reach for the cough syrup, try reaching for your gratitude journal. At the end of each day, reflect on one thing your body did well—digested lunch without drama? Walked you through the day? Give thanks for that.
Think milk is the calcium king? Not so fast, dairy fans. Mother Nature packed some serious bone-loving punch into her leafy and crunchy crew. But which veggie secretly reigns supreme in the calcium department? Time to separate the garden gladiators from the calcium pretenders.
I enjoy watching YouTube videos. I watch replays of games where my team favs win. I rarely watch replays when they lose. That’s my way of punishing them for not winning all there games. The highly paid players don’t seem to realize that the outcome of the game determines my happiness. I can imagine how they talk at halftime when the outcome of the game is still uncertain.
Tony: “I had a rough night last night. The baby kept waking up and my wife and I took turns getting up. Let’s take it easy this half.”
Sam: “You know Ray’s happiness depends on our winning. If we lose, Ray will be unhappy all day..”
Tony: “What’s Ray’s happiness got to do with me?”
Sam: “Look at it this way. Unhappy Ray won’t watch the replay of our game. We get one less view and like. You know how the owners like us to get lots of likes.”
Tony: “Who does this guy think he is not giving us a like?”
Sam: “It’s better if he doesn’t watch the replay of losing game.”
Tony: “How so?”
Sam: ‘ He used to watch them and then he started adding comments in the comments section and they weren’t pretty. The sports talk show folks picked up on the comments and boom, one of us gets traded.”
Tony: “All this happens because we lose a game and Ray slams us in the comments?”
Sam: That’s the way it works.”
Tony: “I see what you’re saying. Ray’s happiness is my happiness. Let’s win this game I don’t want to move.”
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