Are your “healthy” beverages killing you or hydrating you? by Jen Beck In all reality, the only one true healthy beverage is…Water. All the rest pose some kind of challenge to our health, big or...
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Food Walking Tours
A great way to learn about and sample local cuisine. I’m not an organized tour kind of person. I don’t like the lack of intimacy, the feeling of being herded, and the forced structure of having to be...
Truth or Myth?
Is losing weight really only about eating healthy and exercising? by Jen Beck When trying to improve their health or lose weight, people will hire expensive personal trainers, go on crazy restrictive...
Addicted to Cell Phones?
It’s not just the young, and there’s a reason why it might be easy for all of us to develop the habit. The other night I was out to dinner with friends. While sitting at the table, one by...
Fountain Pens
Write it Right…with the Fountain Pen of Your Choice. If you have read other High Life articles you know we often present something which we can only dream about, but that very few of us can...
Gites in France
Little cottages that are old world and offer a different kind of travel experience. We’ve talked about renting villas as a great way of feeling embedded in whatever country you’re...
Cutting the Cable Cord
If you’re watching television, listening to the radio, or reading a newspaper as you did thirty years ago, you’re out of touch. By Bill Wood In November, 1974, Muhammad Ali told a battery...
Translating Emojis
Modern communication is taking a page from the ancient Egyptians. by Bill Wood Even if you’re not a member of the Millennial generation, you’ve probably learned how to use emojis in...
Unique Reads
Great books that are out of the ordinary but worth your time. Periodically we’ll present some wonderful, informative reading that you probably would not have seen at your local library or book...
Are you Stressed Out?
Knowing the warning signs is an important step toward better health. In a previous article we talked about how chronic stress is harmful to your health — it’s linked to cardiac disease...
