Healthy lifestyles, for me, was a concept that lived on the other side of a huge wall for most of my life. Who were those people? I did not understand what motivates people to do things that bring physical pain like working out. Workouts done right made me cry deeply from a place of pure neglect. Refraining from foods that comforted me made me miss heat [...]

This week I put a homeless woman in an extended stay hotel for eight nights. I found her sleeping outside of a gas station, and she is my parents’ age. I got her groceries for the week, money, winter hats and coats for the season to come, and information on every resource I could find for her for a place to stay. I dropped her off [...]

Everywhere I turn in my community there is a spot to get ice cream or frozen custard. Chain restaurants and fast food places line most of the roads. Billboards advertise the latest and largest Krispy Kreme donut. Meals everywhere are three times the size we should actually be eating in one sitting. My daughter gets served fried mozzarella sticks and french fries for lunch at [...]

I am not one of those people who says, “I have tried every diet there is, and nothing works.” I have not. In fact, I barely got on the bandwagon of any diet. I would say that in order to be able to say I “tried’ something, I would actually have to try. Trying, I have come to understand, involves sticking to something for some [...]