When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in the storms of life may your heart be like an eagle’s and soar above.” – Author Unknown

Category Archives: How Can I Heal My Body?

You can become and stay healthy!

These articles in this category teach you how to become healthy and maintain your health. Articles include:

  • how to lose weight,
  • how not to lose weight,
  • and how to prevent illness.

Its purpose is to enable readers to be healthy and overcome life’s storms as an eagle does.

BJ’ s vision is insightful and motivating. Her vision brings you a successful and positive outlook on life. These articles will enable and inspire you to be healthy.

BJ writes to encourage others.  She promised her Grandma before she died that she would continue to spread her Grandma’s message of hope, faith, love, and encouragement. BJ hopes these articles encourage you to stay healthy!

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic book for children about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives.

Near a River encourages early reading for children. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and overcomes the storms in life.

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Strategies to help you beat this heat this summer! The heat can make you feel generally miserable, and it also intensifies depression and anxiety. There is no way to completely escape the summer heat, but you can try to beat Read more…


Looking for an escape from insects? Here are a few ideas… It is summer and bugs are everywhere, especially the kind that bite. Some of them carry dangerous diseases! If you are like me and have sensitive skin, keeping these Read more…


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Did you know that simply following your Circadian rhythm will make you healthier and help you maintain a healthy weight? Your circadian rhythm is a 24-hour internal clock that runs in the background of your brain.  It cycles between sleepiness Read more…


Do you understand life?  I do not understand it fully, but I do understand these things… Some days life is too hard, and other days it is quite enjoyable. As I watched the sunrise on a Florida beach the past Read more…


Where do your rights stop? Yesterday, we went to Walmart to get a few things we need for our campsite.  People were smoking cigarettes by the doors, so I had to walk past cigarette smoke to enter the store. When Read more…


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It was my pleasure to cause my current problem, and I am also enjoying solving it! Ten years ago, I was as slender as I was the day I graduated from high school.  But then I met my second husband.  Read more…


Encouraging you to eat healthy and pay attention on near a river.

Students starting school are not the only people who need to be able to pay attention.  In addition to students, people making road trips also need to pay attention.  Since my husband will be making a 10 to 12 hour Read more…


Encouraging you to eat cake in spite of food allergies on near a river.

If you are vegan or have food allergies, this cake recipe is a must bake for you… Today was a rainy day and my husband and I had fun in the kitchen.  First he made dinner in the crockpot using Read more…


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Have you heard about the new mental health disorder? Yesterday evening my 3rd grade neighbor Johnny helped me pull weeds in our yard.  I asked him if he had enjoyed the past year in school.  His answer was interesting. Johnny Read more…


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What would your one resolution for next year be?  Here is my choice. Please don’t make another resolution you won’t keep. Make an achievable resolution that will take you to new heights in 2020! Love yourself as you are–unconditionally! Doing Read more…

"Each reader's heart is like an eagle's and can soar above the storms in life..." - Near a River's Author, BJ Rae.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic children's book about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives. Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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