Well Being Magazine

Walk to Beautiful

By Jimmy Wayne with Ken Abraham Jimmy Wayne is a country music singer and songwriter whose songs have reached the Top Ten on the country music Billboard charts since his debut in 2003. Caring for others in need has always been part of Wayne’s message, as with his song “Paper Angels” which was written about the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program. Wayne was abandoned by his mother at age thirteen but Read more »

Being Mortal

By Atul Gawande When I saw Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End on the shelf at Lemuria, I knew I wanted to read it. I also knew I was afraid to read it. I knew Gawande wrote about a really difficult issue: growing old in a nursing home or assisted living facility and making decisions with your family members about critical care for yourself or anyone in your Read more »

A Cook’s Initiation into the Gorgeous World of Mushrooms

By Philippe Emanuelli Philippe Emanuelli is co-founder of Café des Spores, a restaurant in Brussels, Belgium. Over the course of four seasons, Emanuelli developed recipes for every mushroom he could get his hands on. Over 100 of his recipes with the approval of his customers, along with the gorgeous full-page photography make up one of the most comprehensive mushroom cookbooks on the market. The book features the definition of the mushroom, Read more »

Why Most Women Die

By Shyla T. High, M.D. Why Most Women Die might be a scary title but it is a handbook that every woman should have – and the sooner the better. The introduction explains the hard truth: heart disease is the number one killer of women, not cancer. More than one third of American women over the age of twenty will die from heart disease. Despite the numbers, there is very little Read more »