Posts Tagged ‘Sleep Challlenge 2010’

Migraines are an ailment onto themselves. You get your full blown, you want to die ones. There is the mid-sized ‘I may make you take to a dark room, close to a toilet and not let you sleep or I might go away’ level and last is the mini migraine that I have had for awhile; the head pain is nagging and constant and your stomach is queasy but you can function. 

Unfortunately though I choose this weekend to watch Shutter Island with  Leonardo DiCaprio; not knowing that it has a very vivid scene that triggers a migraine for his character. That managed to kick my symptoms up a notch. I wonder too if anyone else finds that some of the commercials for migraine medication leaves them feeling slightly unwell?

Needless to say all this has left me quite ineloquent so let’s get to our …………..

With Your Biscotti & Coffee

1) A good nights sleep can be so illusive; two very busy women HuffPost’s Arianna Huffington and Glamour’s Cindi Leive decided to embark on a month long Sleep Challenge 2010 and they blogged about its successes and failures.

Huffington Post’s version

Glamour’s Posts

2) An Interesting Woman: Gayla Trail

Gayla Trail is a writer, photographer, and graphic designer. She is the creator of the popular gardening project, You Grow Girl and the author of You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening as well as an in-demand gardening personality and spokesperson with a focus on urban gardening, growing food, sustainable living, and community. Her own line of pithy gardening products

O magazine recently featured Gayla in How to grow your own herbs 

3) Afganistan remains a paradox as these three reports illustrate

Afghan women swap burqas for police uniforms By Daphne Benoit

Lyse Doucet reports on the Afghan women jailed for bad character 

A garden can be much more that than it seems Growing gardens, independence and esteem by Terry Glavin

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