Posts from ‘December, 2008’

My husband always closes his business from 24 December and re-opens again on 2 January.  So, right now he’s on holiday and we’re having great fun!
We’re very fortunate to both still have both our parents and we’ve been spending a lot of time with them, going on outings and, you guessed it, eating, drinking and being [...]

New Year is my favorite holiday. Not because of the parties, though. I like to spend New Years Eve with the people closest to me, reminiscing and saying good-bye to the old year and preparing myself mentally and spiritually for the new one.
To many people it’s just a new date on the calendar, but I’ve always felt [...]

What a year it’s been!  An historic and highly entertaining presidential election, a world-wide economic meltdown, the Beijing Olympics, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, hurricanes and floods and closer to home a “bloodless coup”.  We said goodbye to Michael Crichton, Sir Edmund Hillary, Heath Ledger,  Mama Africa Miriam Makeba, Paul Newman, George Carlin, Bernie Mack, Charlton Heston [...]

This line from the song Tell Him with Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion has been running through my mind since I started wrapping the Christmas presents yesterday afternoon.  What does this mean for me?
We spend all year redefining our relationship with food and telling ourselves that food does not equal love.  Yet, this past week [...]