Marisa on March 21st, 2010

Well, Spring has sprung! With Spring comes a somewhat shedding of clothing, and with that the pull to shed pounds. I feel like all I see is a frenzy of weight loss headlines urging us to walk off belly fat, get ready for your bikini, move, tone, run, eat, don’t eat that! Ah ya ya, which [...]

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Marisa on January 29th, 2010

Suzanne has picked great reads and with her choice of Still Alice by Lisa Genova she has picked another winner. This is a story about a 50-year-old woman who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University, and her very sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer’s disease. as I read the first part of Still [...]

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The first time I heard about this article I was watching The View. Of course I immediately thought that I had to read the article for myself. Can this be true? I was warring between, “The title is just a clever hook”, and “Are they kidding me?”. Well, life gets in the way, and it [...]

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Marisa on July 16th, 2009

Being a bookworm I read constantly, at times for sheer pleasure, at times to gather information, and at times because my eye just catches a word or two and I get curious about the rest. You know how that goes, we see words like Brad Pitt, ,fire, help, save, abuse and our curiosity gets the [...]

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Marisa on June 25th, 2009

I’m a magazine junkie. I could walk into a book store and at times just go through at least twenty different magazines, and then purchase a few so I can delve deeper into them at home. I even subscribe to a few of my monthly “must have”. One of my “must have” is Fitness. In my [...]

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