Pecan Month: Honey Pecan Waffles
Another recipe for National Pecan Month. Easy, Straight-forward. You could whip this together this weekend Maybe roast the pecans first? Yum! Enjoy! Advertisements
How Stream of Consciousness Writing Works
Last week, I published a post about stream of consciousness journaling. This week, I decided to go more into detail about this style of writing. One of the easiest forms of journal writing is stream of consciousness. What is it? This is where you just start writing about anything and everything. You don’t have to pick just one topic, use a prompt, or even make sense. Just write what comes to mind for a certain amount of time or until you’re done writing, and that’s it. It takes all the pressure off journaling about the right topic and just lets you do a big brain dump. Here are some things…
Sleep and Your Immune System
Getting an adequate amount of sleep is important for a wide variety of reasons. These range from keeping your stress levels stable to affecting your weight. It can also seriously impact your immune system. If you consistently get less sleep, you might find yourself getting sick more often and taking longer to fully recover. When you go to sleep, your body isn’t doing “nothing”. It’s actually quite active during rest, doing a lot of behind-the-scenes maintenance that’s very important for you to stay healthy. Your Body Produces Stuff in Your Sleep One important thing your body does while you’re asleep is produced and utilize something known as cytokines. These are…
Homeschooling: Tech Must-Haves for Safety
It is critically important to provide a secure online computing experience to your child, not just in regular online activities, but especially now that the schools have turned to a virtual learning format to help reduce contact with others and attempt to prevent the spread of disease. Just as we take special precautions to try and avoid real viruses, we should also pay special attention to our computing methods so as to avoid computer viruses. Why is this important? Computer viruses are programs that “open a door” and allow hackers and thieves back door entry to your information. Tech safety of all types is very important. How do viruses get…
What Groceries Should You Buy While Self-Isolating?
In the middle of a quarantine, there are a lot of factors that can influence what is or isn’t available to you and other people who are trying to keep themselves free of infection. For a lot of people facing those sorts of changes for the first time, choices can be tough, and options will seem to be in short supply. In order to give you some help, this article has some solid advice on healthy groceries to buy while self- isolating. Perishable Foods The first category of your foods are perishable foods. These are foods like dairy, eggs, meat, and produce that have a shorter shelf life. While you…
How to Avoid Unnecessary Snacking When Stuck at Home
One of the biggest challenges people have been facing with being home all day for many weeks in a row is that they tend to go through all their snacks –quickly. Not only is this going to be hard on your figure, but it might make you feel sluggish and also cost you more money overall on your food budget. Here are a few tips that can help you control some of the extra snacking in your house. Keep Snacks Out of Sight This old rule is great for so many reasons. When you see something right in front of you and are constantly reminded it is there, your brain…
What to Do When You Don’t Have Supportive Employers or Managers
Working from home can be a real struggle when you aren’t used to it. However, it can be made wore when you don’t have supportive employers or managers. During difficult times, it is crucial employers are transparent and supportive with their employees. So, what can you do if yours isn’t? Here, you’ll discover some of the key steps you can take if you feel you aren’t being fully supported. Let them know how you feel The first step you should take if you feel your employer or manager isn’t being supportive, is to talk to them. This can be intimidating, but your employer may not even realize how you feel.…
Homeschooling: Adapt to Survive
Are you at home with your children during the Coronavirus outbreak and navigating through the e-learning format? You will likely have some questions and feel a bit nervous as to whether you’re doing everything right. For many students, teachers were amazingly able to roll out an online version of their daily school assignments in a relatively short amount of time. This is impressive… but the sudden pressure to live out the school day attached to computer screens can have some unintended consequences. As much as today’s kids seem amenable to the online learning experience, they also may run into their share of challenges. Here’s how to navigate through that, keep…
11 Tips for Aging Persons During a Pandemic
Older people face a higher risk of becoming ill during a pandemic because they may have weaker immune systems. Elderly persons with chronic illnesses are at higher risk. It is crucial to be aware of the best ways of looking out for them. Here are some ways to protect yourself during a pandemic, if you are part of this more vulnerable group. Continue taking vitamin supplements Many people take vitamin supplements to support a healthy immune system. Hence, it is wise to keep up with your supplements to help your body fight infections more effectively. If you aren’t taking any supplements, you can get in touch with your health care…
How Often to do Stream of Consciousness Journaling
With stream of consciousness, there are no rules except to get words on paper. You can bounce around to different topics, write a certain number of pages or set a timer, or just write what you want until your hand gets tired. But how often to do it? Here are some things to consider. When You Don’t Know What to Write About You can do stream of consciousness writing at any time, but a good time to take advantage of it is when you aren’t sure what you want to journal about. It helps get your thoughts going and puts words on the page. What often happens is that you…
