by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Self-Improvement
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Women who are experiencing symptoms of menopause or perimenopause and have decreased estrogen production face increases in their risk of developing major diseases like osteoporosis, heart disease, and cancer. Smoking exacerbates the risk...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Parenting
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce As moms, part of the fun of Halloween is helping your children enjoy it. This means finding costumes, taking them trick-or-treating for candy, and bringing the best Halloween-themed foods to the school party! Here are some great ideas...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Our biggest fear at having a ten-year age difference between our first set of kids (the ones Dave started making without me) and our second set of kids was that we didn’t want the younger ones to catch the disease of teen cynicism too...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Self-Improvement
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States. There are two main types of heart disease: hypertension (high blood pressure) and arteriosclerosis (blocked arteries). High blood pressure makes the heart work too hard to...
by Shadra Bruce | Education, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce When Parker was in first grade in Reno, he had the most extraordinary teacher. She was caring, compassionate, and intuitive about her students. She immediately recognized that Parker could benefit from spending part of the day in a...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Recipe Corner
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce We’ve spent much of the summer enjoying summer food – corn on the cob, grilled burgers, foot long hot dogs (our daughter’s favorite), steak, and many different salads. I love summer foods, but when the weather starts...