Thursday, June 11, 2009

Presenting: The Great Greens+ Experiment

My office recently heard about Stacy Lane, who has a blog named, "Eating to Live Laugh Love Tri." The TRI has to do with the fact that she is a triathlete. Stacy (at left, before a run) had tried one of our products and wanted to learn more about Greens+. We obliged and provided her with some samples.

Now we are looking forward to the results of what Stacy calls "The Great Greens Plus Experiment." She is trying a bottle of the Wild Berry Burst powder. We look forward to seeing her follow-up posts. So far, so good, from what I have read.

Of course, I was the very first taste tester of Greens+ because our original formula was created just for me back before we had a company. I can take the credit -- or the blame -- for what we have today. If anyone else would like to try their own version of the "Experiment" and post the results online, please let me know.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Celebrating 51 years of life -- with joy

It's my 51st anniversary! No, it's not my 51st birthday; I'm 69 years old. I haven't been married 51 years (39 years last month). And it wasn't 51 years ago that I water skied from Key West to Cuba, although I wanted to until I saw just how big barracuda were and understood that they might think that I was bait being trolled by a fishing boat.

I celebrate June 2, 1958, because it is the anniversary of me breaking my neck and living through it. I dove off of a seawall in Atlantic Beach, Florida, breaking my fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae.

Breaking one's neck in the 1950s was almost certainly a death sentence -- if not immediately then within about five years. I am a living, laughing, loving, goofy quadriplegic who has had a wild and wonderful life in the 51 years since I broke my neck. Since then I have:
  • obtained a high school diploma
  • completed a bachelor's degree and attended graduate school
  • been a hippie
  • partied a lot
  • drank too much
  • worked as a clinical psychologist
  • taught psychology at a university and community college
  • become a rehabilitation psychologist
  • gotten married and become a mom
  • raised a wonderful son who is now 24 years old who works for our business
  • gone to parties and danced in my wheelchair
  • ridden horseback
  • run a state program for the governor of Florida
  • started Greens+ 20 years ago with my husband and turned it into a successful nutritional supplement company
  • retired and gotten bored with being retired
I have led the most incredible life that I could have dreamed! I wouldn't change places with anyone! And that, my friends, is why I celebrate my 51st anniversary with joy!