Archive for August, 2009
Posted by Alexandra on August 17th, 2009
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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...
Categories: Featured Articles, Sleep
Posted by Alexandra on August 17th, 2009
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,...
Categories: Daily Corner, Featured Articles
Posted by Alexandra on August 17th, 2009
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
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...
Categories: Diet Talk, Featured Articles
Posted by Alexandra on August 10th, 2009
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
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...
Categories: Daily Corner, Featured Articles
Posted by Alexandra on August 5th, 2009
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...
Categories: Featured Articles, Sports