Sleep gives your body the opportunity to relax and refresh. During sleep your heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, muscle tension, and oxygen consumption all decease. Chronic stress can lead to burnout, anger, depression and medical problems. Impacts of Sleep Sleep has been linked to the following: Learning and memory Sleep helps your brain commit […]
Preparing for Retirement Finances
Having recently retired after a long and satisfying career, I’m now able to look back on financial preparations I made for this new phase of life. And, on preparations I wish I’d made! What preparations did I make in the years prior to retiring? Contributed as much as financially possible to my employee retirement accounts […]
Choosing the Best Preservation Method for You
This is the time of year that many of us are seeing lots of produce ready for harvest in our gardens, community gardens or a surplus coming through food banks. Even as an experienced food preserver, having the time to can all of the produce is not an option for me. Sometimes I have just […]
