HealthWise Living

What would Jane do?

People everywhere screaming into cell phones, metal detectors going off, and machines not accepting your dollar bill: this montage of daily frustrations in 21st century Los Angeles is the opening scene of The Jane Austen Book Club. Although everyone is busily talking, no real communication is taking place. That is, until Bernadette, played by Kathy Baker, decides to start a monthly book club (more…)

Running out of ideas for your favorite runner?

Do you have someone on your Christmas gift list who is health-minded? Or someone whose health you care about? Here are some ideas to help you find the right gift for them. (more…)

To read or not to read, YOU are the answer!

I have set aside the blog entry that I had prepared for today to address an issue pressing on my mind. I saw a video clip on YouTube that made me angry. Now anyone who knows me is aware that I’m not the sort of person who angers easily. The clip was an episode of John Stossel’s 20/20 show called ‘Stupid in America’. What made me so angry is the betrayal of the taxpayers, parents, and most of all the children. These children were denied their education, through governmental incompetence.

But what can be done? Local school boards and lawmakers can be petitioned to develop school choice programs and to hold bad teachers and bad schools accountable. Parents can take charge by choosing private or home school options.
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How to BE Smarter Than a 5th Grader

Do you hear your friends or your kids talk about books they’ve enjoyed, then think “I always wanted to read that but never got around to it!”? What about now?

Mortimer Adler said that “…no young person can complete his or her education in school, college, or university for the simple reason that youth itself— immaturity— is an insuperable obstacle to becoming a truly educated human being while still young. One’s education can be begun in institutions but it can never be completed there. Only a truly mature or adult person can possibly attain the kind of education that produces generally cultivated human beings…”
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