: About Me

I am Denys Trowbridge. My husband Steve and I live with our 5 kids in a very small house. It promotes togetherness and lots of neat stories. We have been married for 16 years. Steve is an accountant and I am a stay at home Mom. I home schooled for 7 years and I worked in the schools for 6 uears. I love to write mainly for a stress reliever, but now that the kids aren't babies anymore I have more time and I am exploring writing for more then just fun. We are heavily involved in our church and choir. And life does keep us busy with everything, but I am looking forward to trying my hand at writing on helium.

My passion is ...

God and family in that order with music as a side bar. I pray that there is n

I know too much about ...

Children and childhood disorders and dirty diapers.

My parents always told me ...

Not to talk to strangers.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a teacher and get married and have lots of kids and a dog and a cat.

My favorite memory ...

Holding my kids for the first time and counting all their toes and fingers and snuggling with them, Visiting my Grandma and grandpa and our neighbor Mae telling me stories. A dog named Fonzy at a haunted hay ride. Talking to my Grandpa's dog QUeenie and confiding all my secrets after she led me out of the forest down South in little Southern Ohio.

Why I write ...

It has always been a passion a way to express myself and to destress. When I was little I always made up my own songs and stories.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Earlier I was listening to Have No Fear(our choir Christmas music)/and looking at a book on XHTML

My first job ...

Besides babysitting I worked at a little drug store.

My best moment ...

Asking God to be my Lord and Savior

My inspiration ...

God my Father, my Savior, my everything

Health & Fitness > Fitness & Exercise Tips Exercise outdoors, even in winter

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We all know exercise is essential for good health, but then the snow flies and our resolve flies out the window with those little white flakes. Winter is the time of year when some of us tend to hibernate like bears. And we get grouchy as a grizzly. We sit and mope longing for those warm summer months to return. Somehow exercising indoors just doesn't have the same luster as the summer months held for us. But winter has its advantages too. And while some people hibernate others have learned some secrets to thrive on being outdoors in the winter. So how do we find their nirvana? I got to wa...

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