Stress – Screeching Strings or Beautiful Music?

Image by xeeliz via Flickr Written by Karen D. Swim Stress. Sometimes the mere mention of the word can shoot your blood pressure and heart rate up a few points. However, stress can be good, bad or neutral. The American Institute of Stress has this to say about stress: “Increased stress increases productivity – up [...]

What I Learned About Life from My Friends

Image via Wikipedia Written by Karen D. Swim There are people who have been blessed with great beauty, others with inredible talent, still others with an abundance of wealth but I have been blessed with awesome friends! I could write an encyclopedia extolling the virtues of my friends but will limit my gushing to just [...]

Life is Like A Moon Bounce

Written by Karen D. Swim Yesterday, my family gave a surprise party to celebrate my mother’s 70th birthday.  The first thing I saw when I arrived on the street was the top of the moon bounce peeking over the top of my sister’s house.  (A moon bounce is kind of like an enclosed trampoline, except [...]

In the Zone

Written by Karen D. Swim Robert Hruzek is on vacation and was crazy er nice enough to ask me to guest post in his absence.  Since I don’t want to go down in history as the guest poster who killed Robert’s blog, will you help me out by visiting over there today?  Robert has a [...]