I have experienced both kinds of cross-roads. I have lost near and dear ones, and I had no choice but to see it happen. I have also made choices of my own - choices that have changed my life in many ways.

By making conscious choices we are able to make positive lifestyle changes. Instead of letting things happen we can take control. We have power to make changes.

I would like to encourage you in your decision to build something new, something better! I want to inspire you to see possibilities, and I am convinced that you have power to make positive changes in your life. It’s a choice. You can build a better life! You have possibilities and power to make positive lifestyle changes. No one else can make right choices for your life. But you can.

It's time to start feeling better! You deserve it! Reduce stress, start exercising, change career, or learn something new and different for your own personal development. Start today by taking that first step to a more fulfilling lifestyle!

Remember: The only ones that never fail are ones that never try.

Ingela Berger Lifestyle Plans

APRIL 16, 1999

It was around four in afternoon when I got call from my brother, Steve: We were all being called to mama’s bedside as she only had hours to live; lung cancer had taken its toll on her, as it did with daddy almost nine years earlier. Although living in Ashland, Kentucky (eight hours away), I promised him I’d be there – my son, Tim, was shipping out for Navy basic, but, after seeing him off, I’d be coming down. Unfortunately, I was an hour late. Mama was probably already hugging Daddy again by time I made it into Pineville. As I stood outside my sister’s house, thinking about all years I’d spent apart from family and living on my own with my two sons, I couldn’t help remembering how, on my last visit in 1995, I went over to mama’s house on Park Avenue and, just before leaving to return to Kentucky, reminding her of what daddy said years before. “Mama, let me hold you just one more time.” How could I have known I’d never have that opportunity again? Today, I wonder: How can any of us know when, where or even if we’ll see each other again? Maybe it’s time we took a closer look at what our spouses, our children, our friends, neighbors – our country – mean to us. In light of today’s turbulent political and socioeconomic climate – at a time when we’re faced with so many uncertainties – isn’t NOW a good time to hold those we hold dear just “one more time” … just in case? Because how do we know … we may never see them again, except on other side of forever. We may never taste goodness we have right now … it could be taken away in an instant. So, with that in mind, let me say: Tim and Mike, though one of you is in Iraq, other just returned and you’re still some distance away, in my heart and through email let your dad “hold you just one more time”; brothers and sister, it’s same thing, for you’re still “down home”. In my thoughts, “let me hold you just one more time.” Friends, readers, acquaintances from Ashland and around world; though I may have never met you in person, “let me hold you just one more time.” AMERICA – LAND OF THE FREE AND OF OPPORTUNITY – MY HOME – “LET ME HOLD YOU JUST ONE MORE TIME.” … just in case …