How to eat like your great grandmother, be healthier, and feel great! A historian’s journey into the eating habits of our ancestors Mama (pronounced maw maw) Bessie was my great grandmother. She was born Elizabeth Gwilliams in 1903, West Virginia. She eloped with my great granddad Ira Holliday when she was just 17. The story…
Today I’m sharing with you a face mask recipe that I created that I call the “Helen of Troy” Mask. Why? You ask? Well, the three ingredients used in the mask can all be found in Greece and would’ve been available to Helen waaaay back in the Bronze Age (scroll down for more about Helen)….
I’ve been working from home for the past two months. I honestly have taken to wearing any random shirt and and the comfiest pants I can find on the bottom. It’s getting old. So, I’m loving this new lounge wear set gifted to me from Femme Luxe Finery. This lounge set is really comfy and…
I love being in the woods. I love the sounds of nature, the smells, the colors, and most of all the feeling of calm they calm they give me. Being deep in the woods with my little family and my dog is one of my simple pleasures. The woods require certain attire, but that doesn’t…
Even ancient Egyptians had un-wanted hair. This became clear to me a few years back during a visit to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. They have an exhibit on ancient Egypt, and one of the artifacts was a pair of tweezers. Those simple tweezers were more intriguing to me than the mummy (well,…
Paleo is a buzz word right now. The Paleo diet is hugely popular (in fact I’m giving a version of it a try right now). The diet’s basic idea is that you “eat like a caveman”. What you eat on the Paleo diet isn’t exactly what a caveman would’ve eaten; but that needs to be…
Petra is one of those places that’s all over the “gram”. Any travel blogger that can make it there will…. and post tons of photos of it all over social media. That’s because it is an honestly beautiful place. I’m going off of photos and videos because I haven’t been; but it’s on my bucket…