In 1997, I was diagnosed with bio-polar disorder and manic depression.  A week before my discouraging diagnosis, my father informed me that we would be relocating from New York to Florida within the next 60 days.  Wouldn't you agree that I had a really good reason for being depressed?  The doctors didn't seem to think so and they tried to convince me that I would most likely need to take medication for the rest of my life.

I will never forget the still small voice...

Whether it's blowing the whistle on an impending environmental disaster or simply ensuring that the office paper gets recycled, sometimes it's left to the individual to fight for what they believe in.

As renowned psychiatrist Thomas Szasz once said: "Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose."

Inner...

In order to get the best out of midlife and beyond, you have to have the right mindset. You have to breakaway from old patterns, limited thinking, and the conventional wisdom that your best years are behind you. You also have to take on new attitudes as well as regular practices affirming that your best years are yet to come. My recent readings and conversations with different midlife experts have led me to five power ideas in creating a new mindset for getting your life in high...

Learning doesn't work for me anymore. There is nothing to learn. If I have to learn something then what does that say about me. It says I am not enough, I am not complete, I am not whole. I am adding something to myself that's not me. Throw away the books, sack the teachers and get on with it. I am not here to suffer I am here to live. The teacher, taught and the teaching is an illusion. Teaching is a lie it has created a duality where none exists. Who knows how anything should be. Who...

Eating healthy – Why is that people are always asking the same question? I.e. why do I need to have a healthy diet? Well why not, that is if you want to lead a healthy life like keeping fit and in shape. If you are one of those people who choose to ignore to eat healthy, then think of your family – who may just want to.

Eating healthy has an added bonus – as well as keeping your body up to scratch so as to speak, it is the happy factor that sets in –...

As time goes on and trends come and go, many ideas and products are discovered and are soon forgotten. The pet rock, beanie babies, and many other trends are no stranger to this idea that maybe life only gives us our fifteen minutes of fame. Much of this is decided amongst buyers and what the current celebrity is wearing or eating at that particular time. Once in a while though, we see trends that do stay with us and continue to evolve into products that will last a lifetime.

The...

Color contact lenses are the latest trend in fashion. These hot fashion accessories make your eyes look stunning. They completely transform your look and there are so many to choose from. The variety of colors available not only change your eye color, these fashion accessories even have designs on them for theme and costume parties, such as for Halloween or Valentine's Day, etc.

These color contact lenses are simply cosmetic accessories, and not for medical purposes, and so...

Vertigo is the feeling of whirling or spiraling that takes place as a result of a disorder to a person's balance. Subjective vertigo happens when a person feels dizzy from within while Objective vertigo is when the person feels that the things around him move.

Vertigo is, in fact, a symptom, it is not a disease on its own. It is a disorder in the vestibular system. The vestibular system is responsible for joining together the stimuli of the senses and a person's movements and...

There are always  photographs of various celebrities taking their children to school, dressed in high fashion clothes that most of us would never wear, at any time of the day, let alone first thing in the morning.  Most of us are highly stressed at this time, trying to organise the rest of our family so they arrive at their destination, dressed, fed and with the right equipment, leaving very little time to organise ourselves.

Some women are very formally...

William Bartram, a notable, early American botanist, extensively explored the Island of St. Simons in Georgia; describing vividly the landscape, animals and plants in the area, along with his personal encounters with islanders, and in most cases, their generous offers of food, shelter and conversation and hospitality to him in March of the year 1774.

Near present day Fort Frederica, beautifully described by Bartram, as near a "venerable grove of live oaks, under whose...