Tag Archives: life changing

My Journey to Health Part III – Nutritional Regimen

I took all that I learned about lowering LDL cholesterol and developed a plan. I had studied all the nuts, fruits, vegetables, fish and so on. Things to eat more of and things to avoid. I analyzed what I was doing at the time and realized there were many things I could change immediately. IContinue reading “My Journey to Health Part III – Nutritional Regimen”

My Journey to Health Part II – Researching How to Lower LDL Cholesterol

Upon learning my cholesterol was mildly elevated, I started looking online for strategies to lower LDL. What I found: Medications are another route to lowering cholesterol, but it is not addressing the source of the problem, only the symptoms. That strategy will eventually stop being effective and can have undesirable side effects. I spent daysContinue reading “My Journey to Health Part II – Researching How to Lower LDL Cholesterol”

My Journey to Health Part IV – My Exercise Routine

Later, I will write about habits and routines and what a powerful role they play in making progress in anything in life, but this entry will be focused specifically on the daily exercise routine I have in place. If I were to describe what the aims are of the workout it would be a combinationContinue reading “My Journey to Health Part IV – My Exercise Routine”

The uniquely human Robert and my journey with autism

(PART I) My dear wife and I were living in the Middle East from 2012. We were newlywed and had not given a great deal of thought to having children. I had older children (now 30 and 26) and we had not discussed trying to have additional children. Around 2016, we discussed having children andContinue reading “The uniquely human Robert and my journey with autism”

An Impulsive Decision

So the ski season had come to a close and we had to decide what to do next. It had been an exciting year building trails, skiing and living out of a van for a while. I was so content even though we had little money. I had the option of the Safeway job thatContinue reading “An Impulsive Decision”