The snow is several feet thick here and shoveling fatigue is running high. Our backs and shoulders are sore, and we miss the radiant heat of the sun! What keeps us going? Our peers. The people we can count on. Now, more than ever, other people matter! As a company, we’ve been at this for […]
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The Story of a Wallflower: An Easy Cure For Winter Blues
By Gillian Pieper | Published:“So I danced today. We danced today. A hundred of us, unlikely dancers we, all swiveling our hips at once. It was spectacular and I felt marvelous.” Here’s why peers matter: That’s what I said when I came home from work last week. Now, I am terrified of dancing. For a seemingly not uptight person, […]
Read moreGet Out of Bed!
By Gillian Pieper | Published:So the days are shorter… But who says we have to hibernate? January, historically, has been a busy month. For example, it’s inauguration day today, and on this day in history, JFK said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” (1961). Also on January 20, […]
Read moreTo Resolute or Not to Resolute
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Happy New Year! Tonight you’ll be enjoying the end of year festivities, we hope. Tomorrow, you’ll be planning for what comes next in 2011. Will you set resolutions, or are you one of those in the room who says, “I don’t do resolutions”? No matter how you frame it, I bet you’re thinking about how […]
Read moreQuit Mocking Me! Are You Mocking Me?
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Today I got two silly holiday mass emails. You know them both. The first was about the wine in a recipe. The quick and dirty, to all our Julia Child fans, is that you’re supposed to test the wine periodically to see if it’s worthy of being put in the batter. By the time the batter […]
Read moreAway In Maine
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Ode to Wellness Champions… “You find small melodies wherever you look and listen.” ~ The Vegetable Orchestra. We’ve missed our standard blog posts this week because we’ve been out on the road training more than 80 Maine school district wellness leaders to be PATH Adventure Coordinators. While traipsing across all corners of the state, from […]
Read moreWhole Grain Fiasco
By Gillian Pieper | Published:From the Mixed Messages Files: The Center for Science in the Public Interest reported this month that belly fat increases when we eat refined grains like white bread, white rice, white pasta. So we need to eat whole grains like quinoa, bulgur, Kasha, brown rice, oatmeal (Framingham Heart Study, Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2009) — […]
Read moreCandy Out, Courage In
By Gillian Pieper | Published:When will the in-your-face candy crunch end? I can’t take it anymore! According to an article in The Altantic this week, in the early 1940’s Brach’s began promoting their fare during the last week of October but didn’t even mention Halloween, and that was it for candy marketing. Fast forward seventy years and I believe […]
Read moreGrass Is Greener Lesson
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Skinny is truly relative. The skinniest I’ve ever been was when I returned from Southeast Asia with dysentery. I know, more information than you needed. Sorry. What you should know is that there was a large bevy of people who looked right into my green hued face and said, “gosh, you look great!” Worse, a […]
Read moreDay Dream Believer
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Zoning Isn’t All Bad… There is a difference between being spacey, and drifting off to a far away refuge in your brain. Big difference. Have you got a task in mind that you’ve been putting off? I always have one I especially hate. There are so many tasks that the one I hate gets filed […]
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