Discovering Tastes in Food and Wine
November 2, 2011 by Jill Prouty
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Are you a wine novice? This Friday is your chance to become an expert as St. Paul Lutheran School will be holding it’s second annual Wine Tasting Fundraiser at Tyrone Depot beginning at 7 p.m. Sommelier Scott Ross has expertly selected wines to be paired with delectable hot and cold hors d’oeuvres prepared at the Kedron Kroger by Chef [...]
Mothers, Daughters, and mtDNA
October 10, 2011 by Jill Prouty
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Ever thought about having your DNA analyzed? About a year ago, I became interested in The Genographic Project after reading Spencer Wells’ “Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project” (National Geographic, 2006). Spencer Wells is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of ’56 Professor at Cornell University. He leads [...]
Scrappin’ Retreat in PTC
September 13, 2011 by Jill Prouty
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Calling all scrappers! Scrappin’ Retreats, Inc. out of Flowery Branch, Georgia, will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary by hosting a special scrapbooking retreat at the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center right here in Peachtree City the weekend of September 24-25. Karen Collins, President of Scrappin’ Retreats, has been hosting scrapbooking retreats for 10 years at [...]
Keisha Tillis, Hitting Her Stride as a Walker
September 11, 2011 by Jill Prouty
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Soft spoken, friendly, unassuming. That was my first impression of Keisha Tillis as she walked into a cycle class at a local gym. Wearing shorts with a loose fitting t-shirt and a do-rag on her head, she quietly said her hello’s as she made her way to the opposite side of the room and pulled [...]
Go Pink with Mike
July 22, 2011 by Jill Prouty
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Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which is now the world’s largest breast cancer organization and the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast [...]
Fortytude
July 3, 2011 by Jill Prouty
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I just finished reading Fortytude: Making the Next Decades the Best Years of Your Life – through the 40s, 50s, and Beyond by Sarah Brokaw (Hyperion, 2011). Brokaw, the daughter of legendary newsman Tom Brokaw, holds a Master’s degree in social work from New York University and is a licensed therapist with a practice in [...]
Fib, Fab and (Finally) 40!
March 21, 2011 by Jill Prouty
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Can you believe it? No, not my nauseating use of alliteration, but the fact that I’ve been blogging away for a year now about turning 40. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I think my 39th year broke me in. If you’ve followed my journey this past year, then you know I’ve [...]
My Autobiography in Books
March 10, 2011 by Jill Prouty
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You are what you read. Never has this rang so true after reading William Kuhn’s Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books (Nan A. Talese, 2010). I remember John Kennedy, Jr., giving a statement to the media shortly after his mother’s death. It struck me as odd at the time: “My mother died surrounded by her [...]
Fit, Fab and (Almost!) 40
February 1, 2011 by Jill Prouty
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It’s been a while, but I’m still here. Still in the game. But I’m struggling again. I started wagon chasing (that’s when you fall of the wagon and then run like hell trying to hop back on) after spending the MLK weekend with family in North Carolina. Aunt Harriet’s spaghetti sauce with Italian sausage is too [...]
New Year’s Resolutions
January 9, 2011 by Jill Prouty
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The gym has been a busy place this week with all the New Year’s resolution folks. I’m told that, traditionally, the crowd thins out after a month or so as people begin falling off the wagon. If this has happened to you, I’d like to share a few of my thoughts on why I’ve been able to [...]
Holiday Fitness Challenge
December 21, 2010 by Jill Prouty
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Much as been been written about weight gain during the holiday season. Many media outlets report the average to be 7-10 pounds, but according to new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the average is just 1 pound. Now for the bad news: We typically don’t lose the pound we’ve gained. With the average weight gain for [...]
Mission: Healthy Meals for Schoolchildren
December 19, 2010 by Jill Prouty
Filed under Diet, Health, Parenting
With childhood obesity becoming an epidemic in this country, a professor at Georgia State University has linked overweight children with federal school nutrition programs. Research published in the Summer 2010 edition of The Journal of Human Resources by Associate Professor Rusty Tchernis (“School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity”) reveals that children who [...]