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Easy like a rainy morning

Please join me in welcoming the final installment in the series on habits from Lindsey Bass. Check out her previous articles New Year, New Habits!and Attractiveness Has Nothing To Do With Looks Here Thank you, Lindsey for helping our readers start the new year with a focus on helpful, and healthful habits! Dr. Andy Brown The…

Attractiveness Has Nothing To Do With Looks Here

Thanks to Lindsey Bass for providing a second installment on her series of reflections on habits. Enjoy her thoughts! Dr. Andy Brown Craving the open air on a road trip, windows down, and wind in your face is the opposite of sitting quietly in your work-from-home space. That desire for this experience is similar to…

New Year, New Habits!

Welcome to 2023! The new year is just a little over a week old. How are you tending to the habits you desired to create this year? Please welcome my colleague, Lindsey Bass, as a guest blogger. Over the next few posts, she will share thoughts gleaned from the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.…

Joy in the Season

This holiday season has me pondering the word “joy.” As a child, I thought joy was that final bell to release me from school as the Christmas break started. I also thought joy was knowing a brightly wrapped package under the tree had my name on it! Recalling Christmases of my youth helps me to…

Summer Surprises

June 21st marks the first day of summer. Where I live, the temperatures have felt summerlike for a while, hitting 100 some days and topping 90 degrees most other days. Summer is a special time of year marked by nostalgia. Remember being a kid and counting down the days until summer vacation?  It felt like…

Red Rock Canyon or Midday at Midbar

We pulled into the gate of Red Rock Canyon preserve. Barry’s rumbling voice seemed to be a source of annoyance for the lady in the booth selling parking passes.  We noted her look of derision as we paid the entry fee but quickly turned our attention to the ineffable multicolored mountain vistas ahead. While attempting…

Environmental Change or Barry White Reincarnated

I eagerly redlined the car as we left the congested antics of the Las Vegas Boulevard, making our way to our destination, the Valley of Fire. I was excited to leave the bright lights and entrancing entrapments of the city for the peace offered by the desert. We fled as men who were just freed…

Running with Intention

Happy New Year!  Welcome to the start of a brand-new year!  I love the blank slate a new year brings, a fresh start. And this year is no exception, now more than ever we need a sense of a fresh start. 2022 has the promise of so many good things for all of us!  No…

Baking Powerful Memories

The holiday season is filled with so many delights for the senses!  Baking involves smell, taste, and touch and becomes a gateway to store powerful, positive memories. Guest blogger, Justina Wong, provides a personal insight on the power of baking. Please welcome her voice to our blog. The one part of the holiday season I…

A Life Loved, A Grief Lived

The Christian church traditionally celebrates All Saints’ Day on November 1st.  The day is set aside for remembering and honoring loved ones who have passed in the previous year.  Some cultures, such as Mexico, go further and make the celebration festive as Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, offers a celebration of…

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