Summer is finally truly upon us – starting with that weird two-day celebration of Canada Day. Somehow the brain just doesn't want to compute that most stores were open on Canada Day itself, but everything was required to shut down on July 2. This was apparently a quirk of the rules governing statutory holidays. The … Continue reading Living By the Rules
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Dealing with Counter-Productive Habits
Spring is when a middle-aged woman's fancy turns to mending the ravages of winter – the all-too-obvious results of months of comfort food, sun deprivation and less exercise. Add in stress from family or work and overeating from the spring holidays, and most people are feeling less than optimal these days. Tight clothes and reduced … Continue reading Dealing with Counter-Productive Habits
Dealing with Overwhelm
It’s that time of year again. Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, this is the time of “the holidays”, and everybody is expected to be festive. What a burden that can be. All our senses are overloaded this time of year – from the repetitive music and noisy crowds in the shopping malls, to the … Continue reading Dealing with Overwhelm
The Power of Saying No
Are you an over-obligator? Do you say yes to everything and everyone? Are you the person who can be counted on to do the work that nobody else wants to do? There's a lot of satisfaction and joy to be found in being of service and assistance to others. But if you find yourself becoming … Continue reading The Power of Saying No
Looking in the Funhouse Mirror
Have you ever noticed how gym mirrors tend to distort, like funhouse mirrors? If you are short and solidly built like me, you don’t find much fun in that kind of mirrors – for some reason they never make you look taller and slimmer than you really are. My personal solution to those mirrors has … Continue reading Looking in the Funhouse Mirror
What Would You Do For Self-Love? (video)
So I was in this exercise class, and I found myself wondering out loud why I was there. Stay tuned for the answer. What do you do for self-love?
#BlogElul 29: Return (video)
I did it! I made it all the way through Elul with my blogs, although I did have to do a bit of catching up here and there. So proud of myself! Here is the last video of this project, and it's a chatty one - I forgot that I had switched my Facebook Lives … Continue reading #BlogElul 29: Return (video)
#BlogElul 28: Give
An important concept in all three great monotheistic religions is that of giving - the social contract to support those who have less material wealth than we do. In Judaism and Islam, the word that is usually translated as "charity" is actually related to "justice" instead. We give not because it makes us feel good … Continue reading #BlogElul 28: Give
#BlogElul 27: Bless
Sometimes there are blessed serendipities in our lives. Rabbi Sommer had no way of knowing that today is my and my husband's 25th wedding anniversary, and yet here it is - the theme is "Bless". David and I met at a time in our lives when we both thought we had to settle for what … Continue reading #BlogElul 27: Bless
#BlogElul 26: Create
There is a description of nearly all Jewish holidays that goes like this: "They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat." Creating holiday-specific foods is an integral part of the tradition. The traditional foods of Ashkenazic Jewry are foods of poverty - my grandmother would eat with relish things like chicken feet and fish … Continue reading #BlogElul 26: Create