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Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now...

It’s getting to be that time of year again, when squirrels store more nuts and the evenings get longer and in certain parts of the country (like mine, for instance), you start waking up to a crystalline blanket of frost on the lawn. Squadrons of geese fly overhead, honking and flapping, leaving their summer stomping grounds for warmer climates. And thousands of starlings fly in undulating...

Homeless Shelter's precious momentSeated in the TV room waiting for dinner when I hear ‘Rose L. please report to the kitchen.’ ‘Darn what the heck do they want now,’ is my first response. I get up from watching an old movie with a couple of other women and head to the kitchen. I’m slightly dizzy because of the hour and haven’t eaten since noon, when I had a peanut butter sandwich...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now...

I'm back to the beach. South Beach, that is. As in South Beach diet.If nothing concentrates the mind like a hanging in the morning, nothing concentrates diet motivation than the desire to look good in the wedding pictures of your son's upcoming nuptials. They're exactly three months away. I've ordered a dress a full size smaller in which I hope to cavort gracefully through the garden reception....

This past week, four of my family members arrived into town to be with Pierre and I for this Thanksgiving! I'm so happy. I just love to see them all and catch up...at least more than we can do on our very short weekly phone calls. The hustle and bustle of the holidays is just beginning for me, and I'm loving every minute of it. I've been cooking several meals a day for the past 40 years,...

Dear Pharmacist, I read you in my local newspaper and find your columns very interesting and refreshing in a sea of misinformation about drugs and supplements. I know you are a pharmacist, but sometimes I think you’re anti-medicine. Suzy is that true? --J.E. Gainesville, FloridaDear J.E.,No, it’s not. I’m anti “over-medicating.” I do “think outside the pill” and I feel strongly that...