Any book with “Rebel” in the title makes me want to give it a chance. When I write about books that I love, I tend to infuse a lot of my personal life that might make you roll your eyes. So, to save ticking minutes, you may want to skip my meanderings and read a…
Tag Archive: Science
Your Body is a Fortress, Part 10 – Training for Old Age
Warning: this post is longer than my usual ditties. The articles in my Your Body is a Fortress series are meant to be more meaty with heft and breadth. So, come back when you have more time if you’d like to learn more about your beautiful body electric. I enjoy reading research results that support…
Your Life as a Comic Strip
OK, I’ll admit it. I daydream about being in a comic strip. (I know, I know, I’m a goofball.) Yes, I actually draw comics sometimes, too, when I feel the urge. Believe me, they’re nothing to write home about. But I always end up laughing somehow. I think I make myself laugh more than what…
I Love Your Mind
Our Amazing Brains! I spend a lot of time in awe and amazement thinking about our amazing human body: the physical component of our human body, and the emotional and spiritual side. I love the body so much I earned my B.S. in nutrition and Ph.D. in molecular biology so I could understand it better….
Your Body is a Fortress, Part 8 – Go Nuts!
[Photo courtesy Athena's Pix] An easy way to build a stronger body fortress is to pay attention to what you eat. OK, stop it. Stop it right there. I can hear what you’re thinking! (Seriously, I really can.) “Do you have to take us there!? This is so boring. I’m going to eat what I…
Blue
[Photo Credit: Flowery *L*u*z*a*] I’ve been drawn to blue lately, more than usual—blue ‘anything.’ Blue skies Blue photos Blue marbles Blue sketch pads Blue ocean Blue incense smoke (as pictured at the top of this post) I am a scientist by training, but I’m also a certified HHP (holistic health practitioner/massage therapist) and have spent…
I’m Showing – Not Telling
[Photo Credit] There’s a flurry of conversation blowing around the microsphere of the web I inhabit—a snowstorm initiated by Lisis Blackston at Quest for Balance. I must say I’m not shocked—that girl tells it like she sees it. (Good for you, Lisis!) I mean, geez, for a woman who has previously compared her ideal post…
My Writing Experiment – The End
The Short Version: 50,414 words in 19 days I won NaNoWriMo! (OK, so I only won a badge for my website and a PDF certificate, but I also have a draft of my first novel. How cool is that?) The Longer Version: I think anyone who earns a living by writing or teaching writing should…
Your Body is A Fortress, Part 7 – Work with Evolution: a Pep Talk
[Photo: JM Cameron] November 24, 2009 marked the marked the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the book with the highest impact in my life to date: Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Not to trivialize this moment, but I like to think the publication was planned in conjunction with the oncoming winter and…