In the early years of our country, children were usually educated at home.

The wealthy would bring in tutors and less affluent parents would teach children themselves.  Boys were taught many subjects as befitting their future roles in life - to work the land or be apprenticed to learn a skill - but girls were taught just the basics then taught skills which prepared them for their roles as wife and mother...

In the late 1990s, Mike Berry met fellow artist Wolf Kahn, an abstract expressionist known for his vibrant use of color.

"He's a phenomenal colorist," Berry says. "He actually took the pallet and brush out of my hand and said ‘Where are your yellows? You don't have enough yellows.'"

Life is full of paradoxes.  As a country, we're probably the most overweight, but also the most nutritionally deprived.  We're starved for minerals, vitamins, phytonutrients and fiber.  Our foods today, which are processed with saturated- hydrogenated fats, white sugar and white flour, leave our cells starving for "building materials" of regeneration.  It has been reported that cancer statistics have risen over the past one hundred years from one in fifty to one in two.

As a nation, we have changed our eating from fresh to processed, home cooked to fast food, oven to microwave, and from organic to chemicals.  It once was, when you saw someone with a blue tongue, it meant a medical condition.  Today, it's from dye ridden fruit rollups.  Should we reconsider what we are doing?  We should definitely enjoy our food and live every moment to the fullest, but perhaps by understanding a few tips, we can live life to the fullest while adding more moments.