ShareWIK.com Blogs ShareWIK.com syndicated data http://www.sharewik.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:26:12 +0100 GROU.PS FeedCreator I Find My Writing Voice http://danlhays.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/417/ ]]> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:41:23 +0100 Interoperability-this is the problem http://healthcareitstrategy.com/2010/09/04/interoperability-this-is-the-problem-2/ ]]> Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:46:42 +0100 Breakthrough Your Love Obstacles: 3 Soul Mate Attraction Secrets Revealed http://www.attractyoursoulmatenow.com/blog/2010/09/breakthrough-your-love-obstacles-3-soul-mate-attraction-secrets-revealed/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:24:28 +0100 CAN YOU DO TOO MANY CRUNCHES? http://getrealfit.blogspot.com/2010/09/can-you-do-too-many-crunches.html Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:18:00 +0100 A ‘Blue Button’ to Help People Download Their Medical Records http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wsj/health/feed/~3/TNXyTFpbP7Y/

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With two $7 cans of spray paint, I have not only decorated two pieces for my home, but I think I also came up with a deterrent for those irritating Japanese beetles that ravish my garden.  


Traditional use for spray paint:


$9.99 at Homegoods

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The other day I told you I found some new running shoes that I just have to have. These are the ones...Nike Dual Fusion in Green/Blue. It has everything I'm looking for in a running shoe, and exactly the color combination I want. It's not just because these are 2 of my favorite colors, but they would actually coordinate with quite a few of my running/workout clothes.

I'm sure I'm due for a new pair of shoes, because I've had my other ones for quite a while now and they are really starting to wear out. For now they have to go on my wish list, because I don't have the money for them at the moment. I'm going to start saving for them, and if I don't get them before Thanksgiving they are going on my Christmas list for my family to get for me.

I'm going t

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Here's what he has to say, Keith Egan's book, "Carmelite Prayer: A Tradition for the 21st Century":

The spiritual life can also easily mask a bipolar disorder or what has traditionally been called a manic-depressive condition. As a mood disorder, depression has usually been linked in systems of classifications of mental disorders with mania, an agitated mood that is at the other end of the affective continuum opposite a depressed or dysphoric mood.

Manic symptoms are many: inappropriate elation, excessive irritability, severe insomnia, grandiose notions, increa

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OK, I saw this last week. It is about 5 minutes long or so but it is worth watching. Who knew a man could jump that high!

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Sometimes I am just a walking fashion disaster.

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When I was nine, I figured that I was a young Christian mystic because I related much more to the saints who lived centuries ago than to other nine-year-old girls who had crushes on boys. I couldn't understand how my sisters could waste quarters on a stupid video game when there were starving kids in Cambodia. Hello? Give them to UNICEF! 

Now I look back with tenderness to the hurting girl I was and wished somebody had been able to recognize that I was very depressed.

Not that I would have accepted the help. I believed, along with all the other adults in my life, that my melancholy and sensitivity were part of my "special" make-up, that they were gifts to celebrate, not neuroses to treat. And should I take meds that helped me laugh and play and design cool barrettes like the other gi
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Seriously.

The first couple of lines grabbed me. "Be still my beating heart. It would be better to be cool." After experiencing a recent hot flash---along with what I think were heart palpitations---I couldn't agree more. So I read on.

"My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion." Can anyone relate? I could, because when the mood swings hit, logic flies out the window. A normally-rational human being can be turned into a sobbing, illogical, emotional mess.

Okay, so this might not be his biggest hit, but the lyrics seeme...... [ Read the rest of this story ]]]> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:45:00 +0100 Florida Education For Children with Down syndrome ” We Are Left Behind” http://downsyndromenwfl.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/florida-education-for-children-with-down-syndrome-we-are-left-behind/ Continue reading →]]> Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:23:49 +0100 Sometimes You Just Need a Happy Place. http://debsueknit.blogspot.com/2010/09/sometimes-you-just-need-happy-place.html I had a bad day on Tuesday. It happens. Not that often but it happens. I am generally a happy person, especially since the much anticipated hysterectomy. But sometimes things just hit you right between the eyes and there is nothing that you can do about it.

And really, this wasn’t that bad a thing. It wasn’t earth shattering. It wasn’t life changing. It was just something that was said and not even to my face and not even about me personally. But I took it personally. I took it personally and for a time I was right back in what I like to think of as “the bad place”. The time when I was totally absorbed by what others thought of me. And that is such a bad place because nothing good can ever come of being there. And you can never find peace. And it just slayed me for a number of hours. Poor HHBL had to deal with tears and blubbering and rambling talk and…

Well, I tend to ramble in the talk department on a good day so maybe that wasn’t any different. But HHBL is a fixer and this wasn’t really something that he could

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My running coach told me that if I wanted to run a marathon all I had to do was to show up at practice. In sweats, not in heels. And the guys who had been sober for double digits said it too: "Keep showing up to these meetings, and you won't drink."

Success is 99 percent perspiration, even as I'd like it at times to be a result of luck or fate, or some no-brainer thing. Alas, most great achievements--and chasing sanity day in and day out is an act of nobility deserving of a Purple Heart--are accumulated moments of bravery

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Happy New Year. May you be inscribed in the book of life….

This sentiment is expressed by many well intentioned individuals throughout the Jewish High Holy days. However, if you have recently experienced the death of a loved one, these greetings may be difficult to hear. Family members gather to celebrate with traditional foods. Communities come together to worship. These can act as a trigger for the newly bereaved. As families dip apples in honey to ensure a sweet new year, the grieving individual may be wondering if life will ever be sweet again. If you are caring for a loved one with a terminal illness or have just buried your loved one, the holidays can bring sadness and loneliness. People who grieve may in fact, dread this time of year because they don’t feel happy. They may want to skip the holidays altogether.

There are many significant days for the bereaved throughout the year – birthdays, anniversaries, secular ho...... [ Read the rest of this story ]]]> Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:59:00 +0100 Create a Sleep Spa At Home http://www.naturaworld.com/blog/index.php/create-a-sleep-spa-at-home-3671 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:15:14 +0100 Thurs. Egg Recall Roundup: Wider Federal Investigation Underway http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wsj/health/feed/~3/jK6oYOxc8CY/

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A woman who lives with chronic pain said to my mom the other day, "You can't sit around and wait for the storm to be over. You've got to learn how to dance in the rain."

That's a perfect description of living with depression, or any chronic illness. But what do you do on the days you don't think you can take the pain anymore? When you want so badly to be done with your life ... or at least be done with the suffering? What do you do when anxiety and depression have spun a web around you so thick that you're convinced you'll be trapped forever in those feelings? When you want to switch places with the 85-year-old man in front of you at church because you're thinking he'll be out of here before you, and you won

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I like vodka.  I like red wine.  I like white wine, and champagne, and margaritas, and anything that comes in a coconut, Buddha, or other interesting receptacle.  As such, I just couldn't let the Time article entitled, Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers?, slip by without a few comments.  

If you haven't seen/heard of this article, it's a short summary of a recently published study that looked at the relationship between alcoholic beverage intake and death in a group of people that were between the ages of 55 and 65 at the start of the study. So basically, in 1990 they asked these folks some basic demographic info and how much they normally drink, and then collected death certificates over the nex
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“When did you find out?” people would ask and I'd watch my friend, Pam take a weary, deep breath and answer, “At 13 weeks.”  She knew what their next question would be having been through this same conversation so many times already.  She knew how they’d react, how they’d take a step back and what tone their voice would take on.  


 

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No, I'm not wishing for it to snow yet...there will be plenty of that here in Cleveland when winter comes around! I'm staring at this picture and trying to stay cool. The temperatures have been in the high 80's and low 90's the past few days, and our air conditioner has gone on strike. We found out that we need to get a whole new unit, because there are several leaks in this system...and they aren't making the parts for this cheapo brand that the builder used when this house was constructed. (Gee...I wonder why our builder is no longer in business???)
We're trying to get several estimates for a new unit, because we're still catching up on bills from when my husband was laid off. It's been a rough year and a half, but things are looking up. The first few days witho
...... [ Read the rest of this story ]]]> Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:01:00 +0100 The Snack to End All Snacks http://debsueknit.blogspot.com/2010/09/snack-to-end-all-snacks.html I have a SIL who is a chef. That is very handy let me tell you because she makes some amazing things. How she continues to be the size of a peanut is beyond me. And personally it isn’t fair. But it is what it is.

Rob, Jana, Deb, Dan 21 Aug 2010 #1See, I look like a giant, food eating blob beside her. Some of us just have to be the blob in the group.

I call her The Chef. She is a genius in the kitchen. You might remember Jana’s Doo Dads. If you haven’t made these then shame on you because they

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