Coffee isn’t good for everyone. If you have heart problems, high blood pressure, a sleep disorder, or suffer from anxiety, your doctor may ask you to quit coffee cold turkey. Dealing with coffee withdrawals can be a challenge. Here are five tips to help alleviate the suffering as you overcome your coffee dependency.
Archives for February 2012
Minute to Freedom #4: Learning To Feel
Today let’s talk about learning to feel. Has it ever seemed like you are numb to the events in your world?
How to Remake a Town, Part 1
Bil Atwood, Project Manager for the Town of Lockeport, reluctantly poses for a photo in front of a major new construction project in Seacaps Park at the centre of town. He folds his arms and grumbles good-naturedly about being in the picture at all. He wants this story to be about Lockeport, not him. Behind […]
A Broken Seed
Me, the living dead, a zombie of a man, a tortured and empty soul made void by the very thing that I sought to deliver me from the pain of existence. I sought Them. The caretakers of darkness, who, pawning their wares to this little child, made sure their victory. Taking their empty promise, I […]
Minute to Freedom #3: The Inner Child
Today let’s talk about the kid inside us all. Have you ever felt like a little kid in an adult world? Like a scared 13 year old?
First Morning
Have you ever heard the sound of a vehicle approaching and known instantly who it was? It was one of the hottest mornings I had experienced in the summer months of July in a very long time, and the nervousness, anxiety and excitement filled only my being it seemed, because the world outside was calm. […]
A Love Potion For Two
This Spiced Love Potion is sexy smooth and will infuse your body and spirit with warmth and wellness. A little goes a long way! Serve it at room temperature in martini glasses as a romantic pre-dinner (alcohol-free) intoxicant.
Pucker Up Canada!
It’s Valentine’s Day. Love and lust are warming the air with lilts of dark chocolate and whispers of expensive champagne. Can kissing be very far behind? Today is the launch day of the Canada Kiss Map, an inspired creation of writer, creative process facilitator, and my friend, Chris Fraser. As big brilliant ideas often begin, […]
Key To My Heart
I have no particular sentimental attachments to Valentine’s Day. It conjures up memories of the second grade at Condon Elementary school in 1955, and an empty envelope taped to the front of my desk because none of those kids who brought in silly cheap cartoon valentines had addressed one to me. To my recollection, only […]
It’s the Thought that Counts
Author Margaret Blackwood remembers an acquaintance who helped her out one lonely Valentines Day.