Did you know that insufficient sleep – especially if it’s regular
– also has mid- and long-term health consequences?
Chronic medical conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and mood disorders are all associated with lack of sleep. Continue reading
Focussing on recycling during one week is a great 
opportunity to improve our efforts and take our good habits into the community, to work and to school.
In Australia, National Recycling Week is an annual event, and in 2012 it is on 12-18 November. Continue reading
For those of us living in cool temperate areas spring 
is well and truly here, especially if you’ve had lots of rain like we have.
And that means that everything in the garden (and outside the garden!) is growing.
So it’s now time to plant seeds and seedlings for the main summer crops. Continue reading
If you travel by air, how do you get to and from the airport?
I mentioned in my last post that I recently had to travel interstate (to Melbourne, Australia) and then internationally (to Florida, USA). And both trips were at short notice. While I prefer to travel long distance by rail or coach, sometimes air travel is unavoidable.
And now that I am back and the dust has settled, I have been reflecting on how different people’s perspectives affect the choices they make…in this case, in doing the airport shuffle. Continue reading
During sleep, our bodies repair and restore themselves. 
Many of the body’s major restorative functions – like muscle growth, tissue repair, protein synthesis, and muscle growth, occur mainly, or in some cases only, during sleep.
So it makes sense that if you don’t get enough sleep, your body can’t properly repair itself…and that leaves you open to infection. Continue reading