Author: Sarra Cannon

Doesn’t it always seem like Wednesdays are the hardest days? I know a lot of people hate Mondays because the weekend is over and all, but to me, at least I am facing Monday after having a fun and hopefully restful weekend. But Wednesdays are like an island. They are sitting out there surrounded by two workdays on either side, with no weekend in sight. It’s always the hardest day for me. Hard to get out of bed. Hard to get dressed and out of the house. I wish that I could just skip Wednesdays and go straight to Thursday….

Happy April Fools! This is not exactly a “holiday” tradition that I have gotten into too much in the past, but it’s fun to see what ideas creative tricksters have come up with. Google seems to have gotten in on the festivities with custom time, where you can send emails into the past and also a new wake up system, complete with bucket to dump water on you if alarms aren’t working. Check out a list of some online april fool’s day jokes at Cnet . My favorite joke so far is what Youtube has done. Just go there and…

Sometimes I think that ideas, feelings, experiences, emotions… all of these things need time to marinate. Whatever you are going through right now will never appear completely clearly to you, but it always seems that what you went through six months ago or sometimes 5 years ago looks so much simpler or easier to figure out now that it’s all over. Things that seem monumental at the time might seem completely trivial in the morning light. I keep trying to think of a quote I once heard about an author who said it took moving Paris in order to write…

Do you ever wonder why scientists and doctors invest so much time and money on studies that tell us… exactly what we already knew? CNN.com is reporting about a recent study that shows “Big Belly could carry bigger dimentia risk”. The article is basically about how doctors have been conducting a study over the past 30+ years to see if having a fat belly leads to health problems. DUH! Why don’t they just post one giant study that says: STUDY SHOWS THAT ABUSING YOUR BODY MAY LEAD TO HEALTH PROBLEMS. That should about cover it.

In our quest for weight loss, we often reach what weight watchers calls a “Plateau”. That means that for weeks on end, you stay the same exact weight. This is, as you can imagine, quite frustrating for anyone who is just saying NO! to all the Krispy Kremes and other tempting chocolates and breads in order to lose weight. Or, in fact, working out an hour a day. You would think that making all of that effort is bound to lead to weight loss, right? So what do you do when it isn’t working? I guess you have to step…

Do you ever wonder if there are signs directing us in life? Just like road signs that tell us when to stop, yield, speed up or slow down, maybe the universe sends us signs that tell us which way to go in life. I don’t necessarily believe that we are pre-destined to certain actions, but I think that there is some kind of plan out there. It’s complicated in my head and a subject that I’ve always struggled with, but I do think that while we all have free choice, there are certain talents each of us have been given…