Holiday Snafu – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
December 19th, 2012
Last week I wrote about how joyous it was to have time to “breathe” when you celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas. Joyous my reindeer hoof! A week ago, I had an endometrial biopsy. I spoke to at least a dozen women who had that procedure, including one who had one unexpectantly ...
2012 Holiday Review Guide! – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
December 5th, 2012
The Holiday Season is in full swing! Here are some goodies for just about everyone on your gifting list! Enjoy! I couldn't help but begin with these little gems! Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day Holiday Candle Tins I love candles! Especially during the Holiday Season. Mrs. Meyer’s has released their new Holiday scents: Iowa Pine ...
Forensic: Fortitude to Finale – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
November 28th, 2012
Here I am, three years later, still trying to fight for custody of my son in my divorce battle. This divorce is most certainly going to go down in the record books. It will probably be the divorce the the decade. Especially because at the rate it is going, my ...
Work Off the Thanksgiving Feast! – Review by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
November 21st, 2012
CANYON RANCH: YOGA FOR STRENGTH & ENERGY The second fitness DVD from the award-winning resort and wellness brand, Canyon Ranch: Yoga for Strength & Energy, debuts on DVD from Acacia on November 20, 2012. This DVD features two 20-minute yoga workouts to improve your flexibility, lengthen your physique, and invigorate your ...
Book Review: The Fatigue Prescription – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
November 14th, 2012
The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life I was given the opportunity to review this truly wonderful book at a perfect time in my life. I had been recently diagnosed with a medical condition called Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome and am being managed via timed medication throughout ...
On Being Grateful and Humble – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
November 7th, 2012
I would like to start off my blog with an apology to my lovely blogging cohort, Allison Silver. Allison, who lives across the country from me, wrote a wonderful, heartwarming blog about how, during Hurricane Sandy, PICU nurses were carrying critically ill babies down numerous flights of stairs to evacuate ...
Costume Parade of Horrors – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
October 24th, 2012
The older my son gets, the more I wish he were a toddler when I used to zip him up in a pumpkin suit as his Halloween costume. For the past three years, my son’s choice of costume has gone from gross to ghastly to downright gory. My son has ...
“Pre -Tween” Craziness – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
October 17th, 2012
Tween “A youngster between the age of 10 and 12, considered to be too old to be a child and too young to be a teenager” Miriam-Webster Dictionary My son is nine-years-old. He doesn’t quite fit the official definition of a “Tween.” I therefore refer to him as a “Pre-Tween.” His hormones are revving ...
Helping Your Hurting Child – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
October 10th, 2012
What a week. More accurately, what a month. A few weeks back I wrote about my son's anger and frustration over going down a reading level. I helped him through that devastating blow to his self esteem as described in an addendum to that post. Still, my son continues to ...
Menopausal Mayhem! – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
October 3rd, 2012
“Holy Guacamole!” Or something along those lines, I exclaimed, about a week and a half ago. Substitute “Guacamole” with a word that begins with the letter “S” and then it would be a direct quote. This Saturday would have been the six month mark for me not getting my period. Except ...
