When I was around thirteen I spent a summer living with my older sister. One of her part time jobs was to curate and run films for a movie night at the local library. One evening I was visiting her at the end of her shift when the janitor popped in to tidy up. They […]
Read more »In 1859 an English naturalist and biologist named Charles Darwin published the book ‘On the Origin of The Species’. It was a book describing his new theory, the science of evolution, meaning that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors. It introduced to the public the concept of “natural selection” known […]
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I’m a loud talker, my voice just travels. It’s probably not genetic though, my family jokes that it’s because the sister closest to me in age became hearing impaired in childhood so I subconciously just started talking loud so she could hear me. In the 70’s and 80’s some butcher doctors invented a surgery for […]
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I’ve been so psyched to have my veggie burger recipe (http://www.sundewhiteindustries.com/delicious-veggie-burger-recipe/) through this Shelter in Place world pandemic because it seems like it’s kind of difficult to get meat right now and because we’ve been enjoying our veggie burgers so much, I haven’t even worried about obtaining any meat. So I started to think about […]
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Back in the 1800’s, when the pioneers trudged across the Great Plains to build their new life on their homestead, they had to survive any way they could, they were on their own. When a woman got pregnant, she’d just have to get through it and pray for a safe delivery. Injured? Whelp, you’d better […]
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Since I’ve been in quarantine I have thought a lot about the gross and tragic story of Typhoid Mary. She was the first person identified as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever in the early 1900’s, a disease that causes fever, weakness, abdominal pain, a rash and sometimes death. A vaccine was created in the […]
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On Thursday Britt woke up with a sore throat. “God Dammit,” he said. “I’m sick.” “What??? It’s summer time. Get away from me though.” I told him. “You know who gave it to me?” he asked. “ A little kid?” “Dr. Coolum.” “The root canal dentist?” “Ya, he was coughing and had sniffles the whole […]
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I’ve been sucking it up and just getting on with things all week while I recover from ear surgery and it reminded me of a day where I was horrible and mean and terrible to Britt and demanded that he suck it up. Years ago we went on an early season snowboard trip. The mountain […]
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First of all, I hate crowds so I really can’t stand crowded yoga classes. But I’m really trying to do two yoga classes a week because it calms my mind, makes me more focused and reduces sports injuries. So today, since I hadn’t done my second yoga class, I forced myself to go to a […]
Read more »In celebration of our new leader, Vlad, and also as a refreshing relief from the long hot summer, here is a recipe for the delicious adult beverage, The Moscow Mule! I reached out to the recently indicted Russian spy—oops I mean student, Maria Butina in her DC jail where she is awaiting trial and she […]
Read more »***I am not a doctor! This is not medical advice, just my personal life experience! Please just go to a doctor, thanks!*** ___________________________________________________________________________ I didn’t have health insurance for about twelve years. During this time I tried to eat right, exercise and prayed I wouldn’t get into an accident. I became really good […]
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