

Plants vs. pants
Eating plants is good for the pants! The picture shown above is of my favorite belts. I’ve had it for years. Notice the two notches added at the top of the belt. That’s where I was in September of 2015. And…one year later I’m down to the fourth set of notches. I dropped the equivalent of 5 notches! When I began eating 100% plant-based my motivations were for my husband and I to rid our bodies of the toxins and blockage from years of eating animal products. Of course comp


Elizabeth Vargas and me
Twenty-five years ago I went to my first Al-Anon meeting in the basement of a small office building in my home town. A few weeks later I attended my first Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting, because alcoholism is prevalent in my family. Very few people knew that, fewer still knew the pain and suffering I experienced along the way. (Thank God my sister was with me through it all!) At that time, I was a mom with two children under the age of three married to an alcoholic and,