Yesterday I watched a video that showed up on my Facebook newsfeed. Nowadays, my newsfeed is so saturated with videos and pictures and ads that I hardly even bother to click on them anymore, but this video looked interesting enough for me to take the few minutes out of my day to watch it. The video is from #CoverTheAthlete, and it starts off with an interviewer going around a bunch of different kinds of male sports teams, asking what seems like ridiculous questions, such as, “If you could date anyone…

World Kindness Day is officially celebrated on Nov. 13, and was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, a coalition observed in many countries. For me, in my little corner of the world, Kindness Day is every day. Whether it’s letting someone cut me in line at Trader Joe’s when they only have three items and I have a cart that’s spilling over, to jeopardizing the condition of my brakes to stop short in the middle of the street (which can be very dangerous) to let someone jaywalk, I…

It’s 6:00 o’clock on a Tuesday and you realize you have no idea what to make for dinner for your hungry family. You decide on a recipe, and bam—you are out of flour… or oil, or eggs, or something essential. We all have those days when menu planning gets overlooked; grocery shopping gets pushed aside. I’ve been there more times than I care to share; I think I have something, and then at the last minute, I realize I don’t and the entire meal goes out the window (unless you…

When I first discovered nature’s Sweet Tarts, I was about 9 and it took only seconds to declare the pomegranate as my favorite fruit---above cherries or watermelon or plums, which I also loved, but just a tiny bit less. The stains on my fingers and the seeds inside each bulb, which I chewed and swallowed and didn’t necessarily love but tolerated, were two very minor aspects of making peace with the fact that nothing is perfect. What I didn’t realize at the time was that the divine little gelatinous red…

There is a recent trend on social media which uses the hashtag #MoreThanCute. I came across it as I was flipping through my homefeed on Instagram a few mornings ago, and was interested enough to take a look. I saw tons of little girls dressed up in costumes that did not seem usual for little girls. Some were little Batwomen, some were dressed as astronauts, some were wearing ARMY paraphernalia, and some were doctors. The hashtag was referring to the idea that little girls are not just put on this…

Mental Health Wellness Week, the national public campaign on mental wellness, is slated for Nov. 8-14, and each year, it’s designed to promote mental health wellness and the benefits to both the mind and body. Communities are encouraged to sponsor programs surrounding the theme and get people involved so they may have the information that could possibly help friends or loved ones suffering from mental illness. Created in 1984 by Freedom From Fear, a national non-profit mental health advocacy organization, Mental Health Wellness Week is meant to inspire awareness. There…

Now that my teenagers have gone back to school, our household’s need for vitamin C has doubled. Maybe even tripled, considering it’s only the second month of school and already we’ve got bronchitis. Now that summer is over, our thirst for fruit has died down a bit, which means adding fruit to each meal is a great way to make up for the fruit-snacking we are more likely to do during the heat of the summer. This recipe contains pineapple, a great source for vitamin C as well as manganese,…

When we think of the term “anxiety” we generally think of the extremes of anxiety—such as people who stay inside because they are anxious about the outdoors, and people who have anxiety attacks every day of their lives. But in reality, anxiety is something that plagues more people than one might believe. According to the ADAA, anxiety troubles more than 40 million adult Americans. But only 1/3 of those 40 million are receiving treatment for it. Anxiety is something that is very treatable, and can be taken under control if…