Having trouble getting your steps in? We know walking is good for our heart, our muscles, and our mental health. However, knowing we should exercise and actually doing it are two very different things. As a Personal Trainer, one of my less popular mantras is that “motivation is an ...
In 2007, Hugo Chavez sent men with rifles into the Orinoco Belt. They walked into oilfields Americans had surveyed, Americans had drilled and American engineering had made productive and told ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips to take a minority stake in their own work or get out. Those two got ...
“You don’t have to be loud to be bold.” That’s what I was told once in a prayer session two weeks before I received the sacrament of confirmation. I had asked my fellow candidates and catechumens to pray that I would be bold in my faith. Just 30 minutes before I was nearly shaking ...
I'm going to warn you right away: this may seem a little sappy. I don't apologize for that. I'm an emotional person, and I've come to view that as one of my strengths. My emotions are closely tied to my passions, and over the last four years, one of those passions has become Alpena. Oddly ...
What’s that one chore you put off and put off? It’s on your to-do list all the time, but never gets scratched off, so you just move it to your next list knowing it most likely will get put off again. For me, it’s dusting, a fairly simple chore but one I do get around to when the dust is ...
WASHINGTON -- The city takes a deep breath after the president's IndyCar auto races came and went without crashing a precious Smithsonian artwork, and before Congress returns. Cicadas and tennis balls make background music. Thank god we didn't lose a Cezanne or Renoir as IndyCar drivers ...
