I must admit that I’ve always been a bit of an anxious parent. I always had this nagging feeling that something terrible would happen if I didn’t worry. I can’t tell you to this day what I thought worrying would accomplish, but at 3 am, that didn’t seem to...
As you go through your day, in your interactions with people, notice two aspects of yourself.
When given the opportunity to speak, there is a part of you that will speak quickly. When given the opportunity to react, that part will react quickly. That is not really you.
That...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here March 09 - March 15
Monday I watched more TV last night than I have in over a decade. The Oscars were fascinating—even the commercials, which I could see but not hear at La Catrina Cantina at Jim Lee's Oscar Party.
I used to...
You know, we’ve been in this El Niño rollercoaster for many months now. Which, by the way, followed a La Niña stretch of about two years. To say that the present current situations, water temperatures, and species specifics are confusing would be an understatement.
To be boating (catching) schooling...
I recently read a research study about how North Americans use their dining table. I always find this type of information enlightening and interesting. You may want to share some of these tidbits tonight over your dinner.
According to the information in this report, the average life span of...
When I was a kid--well, a smaller, relatively hairless kid--one of my more astute schoolteachers dared ask what the lot of us wanted to be when we grew up.
Standard answers abounded: a future firefighter here, an aspiring athlete there, a couple of doctors in the second row, a...
A couple of days ago, as the weather made a sudden hard turn into Spring, I finished slow-poking my favorite garden fork into the weedy mess of my potager as the sun went down, heard flapping, looked up, and saw them settling in one of the big walnut trees...
Besides migraines, are you overweight too? Great news: my experience has been that finding significant pain relief from migraines is much easier and works more quickly for me than getting rid of excess weight.
Getting rid of excess weight in a healthy manner is a major step in finding...
The orange originated in Southern China, Northeast India, and Myanmar. The earliest mention of the orange was in Chinese literature in 314 BC.
As of 1987, orange trees are the most cultivated fruit tree in the world. Orange trees are widely grown in tropical and subtropical climates for their...
