Tag: health
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clouds
Everywhere I’ve lived before, clouds were a common part of life, but here where I live in the Southwest, clouds are a rarity, the days filled with sunshine. This morning I look up from my patio and see clouds. Becoming mesmerized, I spend close to an hour just watching the clouds float by. Little bits…
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white coat syndrome
With my multiple semi-recent doctor and dentist procedures, you would think I could have quickly figured out what my friend was referring to. Rather than appearing to be illiterate, I nonchalantly turned to my google friend, where I ferreted out the following “white coat syndrome” details: – term for when your blood pressure rises in…
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adventures in probiotics
Isn’t google grand? I have just found out, I have been misinformed. Among other things, the great benefits of eating more fiber, the gospel I’ve striven to live by most of my life, is wrong. I am just clogging up my whole digestive track. Apparently, I need more probiotics. I am determined to keep up…
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for my cousin….
….. who is experiencing cancer returning. Our mothers were sisters and we have shared how their upbringing has influenced us through the decades. [Taken from the site where I share my experiences caring for my Mother, and the post, “Living in Borderland: Helping Yourself“] > Practice Self-Love: (This was challenging for me, being raised with…
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i’ll take Rubens
It’s Friday and I am going to have to rant a little bit. I am so tired of America’s obsession with ultra thin, anorexic glorification, while bombarding us with unhealthy food ads and unattainable photoshopped goddesses of thinness. Full disclosure, I have spent most of my life watching my weight climbing up and down the…
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24 hour detox
That would be the digital detox I am planning to attempt. I think we all should. As a social scientist, I purchased my first computer 40 years ago. Oh the miracle. A person could type ten pages and easily edit. Rejoicing that liquid correction goo would become obsolete, I completed my first advanced degree, thrilled…
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waldo
Meet my companion Waldo (he’s the striped snail), a gift from my adopted daughter. I search for him often, and with my gentle coaxing, he has survived for three days. He lives in the bottom of my two-tiered fountain (gift from a friend), which I am trying to turn into an aquaponic habitat, with mixed…
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