Tagged: Lifestyle

Mediterranean diet

Mediterranean diet

So I’ve started giving the Mediterranean diet a shot. The Mayo Clinic, and others, recommends it as a “heart-healthy eating plan.” My heart is pretty strong and healthy but I figure living a healthy (Read More)

Tree House

Choosing life over luekemia

It’s been a while since I’ve written. The picture above explains why. We are building a “treehouse”. Actually its a combination pergola/treehouse: two decks with the top being the treehouse deck about 8 feet (Read More)

frustrated monkey

What was I thinking?!

I’ve discovered something. It’s stupid that I hadn’t paid attention to this sooner. My energy levels, which are affected by my leukemia, are very much tied to how much sleep I get. Before Leuk (Read More)

Sunset at Semiahmoo

Glorious sunset at Semiahmoo

Nothing like a beautiful sunset at the Semiahmoo beach to lift your spirits. That’s my wife in the lower left of the photo. If you look close you can see the sunset in her (Read More)

Snow in trees

Winter’s back. Me too.

Summer’s done. It’s early November and the snow is already falling. Nothing to complain about though. It was only an inch and it has already started melting away. Since the weather’s less conducive to (Read More)

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Old school saves money

Sometimes Old School is better than New School. (BTW, that’s not me in the video. Alas, I haven’t been that young and handsome for a long time.) I decided to go back to shaving (Read More)

Release it all

Letting go is not easy. There are people in my past I’ve had to release. They were too toxic for me (and, who knows, they may see me as too toxic for them). I (Read More)

The Summer window

I’ve kind of been in neutral lately; doing more thinking than writing. I know I am so blessed to be at the early stages of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. I still don’t have to do (Read More)

Compulsive writer

Well, after that last post (The unspoken temptation) I thought a less heavy one would be in order today. Somewhere in this blog I wrote a post about having a purpose. If you find (Read More)