Archive for August, 2009

Posted by Alexandra on August 17th, 2009
Insomnia Tips: When You Count Your Thousandth Sheep It’s Time For A New Approach
Try and remember all the rooms you’ve slept in the past year. Can you picture the ceilings? I can.  I remember every detail of those fancy hotel rooms. I can still recall how every feature looked in the obscurity of night and even how the passing hours changed the shade of the wall paint. And how...
Posted by Alexandra on August 17th, 2009
Thoughts of Night
There’s something about the city that I can only sense at night. It’s its smell. Not the one that you might smell during the day, a mixture of bad perfumes, flowers, sewage and exhaust fumes. It’s the scent that conveys how night envelops the city, a smell of love as blackness pervades its streets,...
Posted by Alexandra on August 17th, 2009
“Baby Fat” Forever
A couple of years ago I went to Italy on holiday. I spent 10 days in a beautiful little city called Vieste. I remember losing myself through the narrow street when I saw a beautiful Italian woman pushing a stroller with a boy that appeared to be about 5 years old. The boy seemed to be healthy, nothing...
Categories: Daily Corner, Nutrition
Posted by Alexandra on August 16th, 2009
Hypnosis for Weight Loss
I’ve been reading lately a lot of articles about weight loss through hypnosis. It sounds fascinating and highly improbable that a person would shed pounds after a few hypnosis sessions. And how about all those you tube videos?  But is there any truth to this claim? Perfect Body Experiments tend to...
Posted by Alexandra on August 10th, 2009
This Summer’s Bruschetta
With a strong basil scent still in my hair and olive oil smudged on my hands I start writing my first post. Bruschetta It’s the first day of my summer vacation and yesterday’s baccalaureates exam already seems a lifetime away. So, after a few long exhausting weeks, I finally woke up this morning...
Posted by Alexandra on August 10th, 2009
Nature’s Intricate Design
I love the human body! We live in an unstable world, a world of ethical battles in which only aesthetic principles have a consistency on which we can rely. Right and wrong we will always fight over, struggling to find and maintain a moral balance, but the beauty of nature’s art is beyond dispute. I...
Posted by Alexandra on August 5th, 2009
Beat The Heat: Run Safely During Summer
It’s getting harder and harder to stick to a decent workout routine as the temperatures skyrocket off the charts and running is becoming a real challenge. Sometimes, I come home late at night, at 1-2 a.m. and that seems the only time that working out can be pleasant. If only running alone in a...