The article explores the bounty of autumn and presents a simple guide to seasonal fall fruits and vegetables from healthy colorful produce to extraordinary dishes enhanced with fresh herbs.
Pollo Guisado
Pollo guisado is like a chicken stew, but this stew is based on Latin flavors using available ingredients at American grocery stores. This is a recipe that I wanted to quickly re-create on busy, after work and school, nights.
Feng Shui decor after spring cleaning
Feng Shui decor is an ancient Chinese practice that helps people create an atmosphere that is prosperous, balanced, and overall healthier. Feng Shui produces harmonious and energetically-balanced environments. Change is not only essential for your health, it’s part of what helps the progression of life into meaningful experiences.
Healthy Eating Habits
Healthy eating is not only about what you cook but also how you prepare and make delicious meals to support life, considering fresh vegetables must be eaten quickly here are a few books that help with the preparation and cooking exceptionally healthy, fulfilling, delicious, and easy meals for our busy schedules and growing families.
Living Up to Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney, born free from slavery before the U.S. slavery emancipation, became a nurse and, against the odds, the first African American to earn a professional nurse license. She exemplifies greatness, hard work, perseverance, and empathy. Beyond her professional career as a nurse, she advocated for education, the care of black orphan children, and women’s rights.
Spring cleaning sustainably
Spring cleaning is a tradition that transcends cultures and time. The concept of renewal, purification, and welcoming the changing season transcends geographical boundaries. Cleaning rituals during the spring season symbolized renewal and purification, and was embraced to support healthy living to ward off disease, reduce stress, improve focus and peace of mind.
Living Up to Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Through her investigative journalism, Ida B. Wells-Barnett exposed the brutal reality of lynching. Wells-Barnett’s activism empowered African Americans to resist and organize against lynching. She encouraged community solidarity, boycotts, and legal challenges. Her legacy inspired future civil rights leaders.
Living Up to Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman was the first African American Woman licensed to pilot an aircraft defying racial and gender barriers in 1921. Her story lives on with the academy she wanted to open up, but unfortunately died before carrying it out.
Living Up to Phillis Wheatley
February is not only about Valentine’s Day, chocolate, advocacy for the heart (American Heart Month), or the latest pop trend from Parks & Recreation, Galentine’s Day. This is a time to enhance our knowledge of the African Americans who helped shape this country and have been nearly missing from school history books.
Wellness – The Connection of Body Mind and Soul
Achieving body, mind, and soul wellness is a journey, not a destination. Combining these elements, we can see them holistically as health wellness. The tasks to achieve success require commitment, balance, and integration of the above-mentioned practices to nurture your body, mind, and soul as the individual you are.