Cork Hug – Remembering happy times
September 14, 2011 at 5:30 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: dinner parties, how to remember dinner parties, how to remember your friends, ideas for wine corks, what to do with corks, wine cork ideas
Remember happy times by inscribing wine corks
It’s been a lovely dinner with all your favorite foods, a tip-top desert, and an excellent bottle of wine to boot.
But once dishes go into the sink, and the door closes on your friends, it’s hard to capture that sensation of ease and happiness again.
Here’s a quick remedy – a cork hug. Take the cork from the wine bottle, write the occasion and the date with a marker, and put the cork in a pretty bowl.
Soon your bowl will fill with happy memories. On rainy days, you can trawl through the bowl re-living good times.
If you want to get fancy, write a little note about what you ate, your favorite stories, or what you loved best about your friends. Snap it on with a rubber band, or a little bit of ribbon.
Simple.
Healthy Hug
June 21, 2011 at 9:42 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: health tips, healthy hug, summer fun, summer health tips
When you pick, it tastes better.
In summer we’re spoiled with the healthy ways we can hug ourselves. Dr Kathleen Jones, D.C., N.M.D., at Elements of Health in Worthington, Ohio, quickly listed six healthy summer hugs for this blog. Top favorite? An outdoor massage.
- Take a walk and pick some flowers. Really look at the colors and the greenery and flowers. Relax and enjoy being outside.
- Go out and get in the sun for a few minutes. “Especially at this time of the year we’re all so sun deprived,” she says. “Feel the sun on your skin for 10-15 minutes. Enjoy the sun – it gives us vitamin D and improves our mood.”
- Get an outdoor massage, at the beach, on your back porch, or under a tree. It feels fabulous.
- Grow something you can eat, or something beautiful to look at. Put your fingers in the dirt.
- Float. If you have a pool or a lake nearby, get on a raft and float around. “There’s something extremely peaceful about floating around. Nothing beats it.”
- Eat great fresh fruit. Watermelon and berries. Even better – go to U-Pick and fill your bucket. Then eat them as soon as you’ve paid for them.
To learn more about how Dr Jones’ can help you live a healthy life, go to www.eohinfo.com.
Mowing, an obsession
May 11, 2011 at 4:17 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 4 CommentsTags: competition, competitive mowing, mowing, mowing in Columbus, rideamowers
By Cynthia Rosi, Columbus Freelance Writer
In the YMCA sauna in Ohio, two men talked about mowing.
“I had to get out there before my neighbor,” says a man sweating in gym shorts, sitting on a white towel to prevent oozing onto the wooden slats. “So as soon as it stopped raining, I hopped on my mower. I had my grass half done before he got to his.”
On Mother’s Day morning, the birds sang through a quiet hush. The Mothers had gone to church after opening their gifts. But when they returned from their Sunday lunches, the neighborhood honeys hopped on their mowers, and roared with the sound of competing two-cylinder engines.
“It’s like a moving meditation,” defends Powell mowing aficionado Kelly Blankenbecler, who loves her lawn tractor. “I get to commune with nature. I love the smell of fresh cut grass. I also get a tan.”
Men who get into competitive mowing, she speculates, want their lawns to be beautifully manicured to keep up appearances. They have to get rid of those nasty weeds.
However you cut it, mowing is a simple escape. It gets you out of the house on a sunny day. You take a slower look at life – the mower dictates your speed. It’s an escape from the to-do list, and from nagging. With the hum of the mower drowning ambient sound, it leaves you pleasantly available to your thoughts.
Another simple way to hug yourself.
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