Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

Pigeon Point, Tobago - My new profile pic! Blogger vs Google+ ? Creating a brand? My head is spinning! You may notice that I've updated my profile picture, both here as well as on my social media accounts. I've also moved away from the CEO Human Capital blog name and embraced the persona "Austin Trini". Please update your bookmarks accordingly (because I know you have my site bookmarked if not subscribed to receive my feed the instant I post). Why change? When I first started as CEO, Family Human Capital, I had just become the stay-at-home parent/homemaker/domestic executive. I was in charge of the family human capital: my children. By now, I have to admit to myself (and yes to the world), that I have succumbed to the twin evils of laziness and selfishness. Laziness because I am not improving their human capital at all (and if you ask them, I am in fact doing the opposite of that). Frankly, as my children get older, I am less and less able to inf...

I was one of those women who said, "If I had kids I would never ....", fill in the blank. In this case it is pander/cater to multiple tastes. How did I end up here? Milk - I started off the year with 3 different types of milk - low fat for Lucas, whole for Liam and soy for us. I've made it down to 2 (switched Lucas to back to whole milk) and I am slowly transitioning both of them to soy. Whew!! Bread - We are down to 2 types of bread, one type for Lucas and Liam and one for us (hard-core multi-grain whole-wheat). I started giving Liam our bread which he accepts, but Lucas has something against bread that has "stuff" in it. As for toothpaste - that's for later. Meals - Ok, this needs some serious work. In general, once we sit at the table, I try for all of us to eat the same things, but maybe Lucas would have plain spaghetti and Liam would have his with spaghetti sauce. It is a mess, but Lucas, my problem eater, seems to be getting more adventu...