Author: Duane

So a few weeks ago, a funny thing happened. . . . within about 24 hours, I had 3 different people tell me about Susan Cain, precisely this TED talk.  Ya, this one right here.  You may recall a while back (Feb. 13 to be exact, I had to go and find it. . ….

This is a GREAT song on so many levels. . . SO MANY.. . . . I had to use this girls version, because Natasha had a bad word in her lyrics, and it was just a bit harsh. Here are the words – LOVE them!  Except for the one, you can imagine which word…

I am WAY behind in my blogging, and alas we are just going to skip ahead – Look, now I am caught up. . . Now that feels better I thought this was amazing, simply amazing . . . .

So one of the things that I learned on my trip was that I really want to live life like a tourist – – see it all, do it all, and enjoy where I live. I know I don’t live by the ocean, where I can ride my bike, swim or run outside all year…

So I have now been in Hong Kong for a week and what an experience it has been. Hiking in the mountains of Hong Kong with the stairs – holy smokes – it gives the stair master a whole new meaning. The ladies market, the jade market, Stanley market, dim sum, the MRT, the A.S.I.A…

So I would usually just chalk up 3 weeks of missed blogging as 3 weeks as missed blogging ( after much guilt and turmoil of course – ya, I’m kind of hard on myself) Anyways, I have become a bit of a new me in the last 3 weeks, and if I had not had…

So, Duane and I have been watching this video for a couple of months, and I love it.  I think this video is one of these things that I could listen to every day for the rest of my life and hear just what I need on any particular day. Today, I am trying to…

This week Duane and I had an opportunity to speak at conference with about 150 local doctors, nurses and other health professionals about weight management and obesity with Dr. Arya Sharma. He was amazing to listen to and we felt very lucky that we got to have this opportunity. One of the things that I…

LOVE THIS SONG!! It is SO new that I can’t find the lyrics anywhere – grrr Ok, it is amazing what a couple days of waiting can do. .  here are the lyrics to this song.  It just makes me want to DO IT RIGHT NOW!  Does it make you feel like getting out of…

Thursday Jan 5 – our ‘we need to have more fun’ day in Tuscon.  Our original plan was to head home today – but we are staying just one more day.  A little shopping, a bunch of swimming and sun bathing, and then the kids got to spend their Christmas money – they had a…