This week Mighty Mommy is joined by author Laurie Gelman. Laurie was born and raised in the Great White North. She spent twenty-five years as a broadcaster in both Canada and the United States before trying her hand at writing novels. Class Mom is her first book and boy is it great: Funny, poignant, and endearing.

This week, I got a really intriguing email from an anonymous listener. She’s a science PhD student and, on the one hand, is really into hard facts and figures. On the other hand, she’s having a hard time using her well-honed logic to change a deep, soul-level worry.

Mindfulness, or the ability to attend nonjudgmentally to one's own physical and mental processes, has been receiving more and more air time as a potential determinant of health. Sadly not enough is known about mindfulness and its association with cardiovascular health and fitness, in my opinion, but I am none the less completely on board with this idea.

As I sat visiting my father in a physical therapy rehab center (following his recent, unfortunate stroke), I was delighted to find that he is able to distract his mind and enjoy some entertainment by watching all-day rerun marathons of the hit reality show, "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."