Yesterday, I went to Best Buy to buy a TV. I rarely watch television, but I decided that I wanted one for my bedroom so that I could watch movies snuggled up in bed with my kids. I did not need a fancy one - simply a basic, 20 inch TV with a DVD player. In making my choice, I had several considerations - it needed to easily fit in the car and I had to be able to take it up the stairs to my room...
My parents are Egyptian Jews with deep seated cultural values and customs. I am the baby in the family who decided to make an appearance 13 years after my brother and 15 years after my sister. I was the pleasant surprise. Between the food and the guilt, and the extremely over protective parenting approach, you can just imagine the loving cocoon in which I was wrapped as a child...
It’s been more than a year now and people have been asking me what it’s like to be remarried, especially now that I have a total of 5 kids. Perhaps my journal entry is the best way to explain it… Over the last month or so I’ve been feeling really good. I have just been completely happy about life...
My Panic Attacks Treatment - 100% Natural For Women Over 30"The next attack might kill me!; My thoughts will drive me crazy!; I don't know how long I can take this ...; HELP!"These are statements I often hear from women who experience panic attacks. Sadly, it (usually) gets a whole lot worse before it gets better...
Beyond the Postures: Taking a Closer Look at Yoga – by Joseph Ellis Pereira Yoga has recently exploded in the West as a way of getting in shape via a series of postures. Yet the focus on the exercise aspect of yoga had resulted in the true nature of yoga – originating thousands of years ago in India – falling to the wayside...
I had a friend vacationing from out of town and I wanted to show him the sites of Toronto - the CN Tower was a normal destination. It was an awesome sight, the tallest structure on earth. We were standing in line for 45 minutes with hundreds of other sightseers to enjoy the elevator up to the initial watch point - around 1500 ft above surface...
My kids and I were standing on the platform at the train station waiting for the train to pick us up and take us back to Toronto after a long weekend in Montreal visiting family. Ferne spotted a bird. It was a plump bird and it looked warm and snuggly, resting peacefully in her nook as though it had found a reprieve from the perils of the world...
With my son Louis in grade 6, and my little girl Ferne in grade 3, the beginning of a new school year brings new school subjects our way like those with interesting new musical instruments. Louis was assigned with playing the baritone. I wasn’t even convinced that a baritone was a musical instrument until he proved it to me by searching it on the web...
Have you ever noticed that when things start to go wrong, they just get worse? That's the kind of day I had today. Escalating badness. It's a function of the law of attraction. When you focus on the thing that makes you feel bad, you continue to feel bad and then you emanate bad energy and that energy just attracts more bad stuff...
She was tired and stressed and obviously upset. She was out of control and unable to collect herself. My 8 year old daughter, Ferne was beside herself because it was already 8:55 p.m. and she still had so much to do: study for her French spelling test, read, and write in her journal. Yes, of course she has a journal; she is my daughter after all! With a note of hysteria, she blamed me for letting the time slip by, and claimed that she hated herself for not being prepared for the spelling test...
