Posted on December 14th, 2008 by admin
Food is, of course, the most basic of our needs beyond water and air (and toilet paper!). Isn’t it funny how we take these simple things for granted? You breathe in and out, you pull on the roll, you turn on the tap, you pop a Lean Cuisine into the microwave, or answer, “Yes”, to “Fries with that?” Easy, automatic, instant. But of course, it’s not. All of these things, with the exception of air, require a complicated combination of infrastructure and workforce to get to us. We only think about it when the system breaks down (imagine a toilet paper factory worker’s strike!), or when we pay our bills.
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Posted on November 29th, 2008 by admin
Once again, I started watching a movie, expecting a documentary (this time about the evils of the tobacco industry). Instead, I was given a delightful thinking comedy movie about the tobacco industry, lobbyists, spin doctors, and the sales industry.
Nick Naylor is the spokesman for the tobacco industry. He lobbies in Congress, appears [...]
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Posted on November 27th, 2008 by admin
I wrote this back in June, when it happened, and since then I haven’t even felt like writing on this blog. On top of that, we’ve had various computer issues. Anyway, now I’m getting organized again, and I feel I have to put this on, for women who might be having the same problem:
This [...]
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Posted on November 25th, 2008 by admin
I’m always interested when I see an “Oprah’s Book Club” seal on a novel, and I’ve never yet been disappointed. They are always haunting, thought-provoking, realistic stories. Once again, I was not disappointed.
The story is from the point of view of the 14 year old daughter (Connie) of a Vermont midwife (Sibyl). The [...]
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Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
I’m not really feeling the disastrous effects of the “depression” that we’re experiencing. Yes, things are tight, but for someone like me, they’re always tight. In the news, I keep seeing all these sob stories about comfortable white people feeling sad because now they can’t afford their laptops, ipods, cellphones, and three cars without tapping [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2008 by admin
This is a thought-provoking book about how our diet affects our daily life from emotional, physical and spiritual perspectives. I found a lot of myself in Annemarie. She was Dutch but lived in South America for most of her childhood and adolescence. Then she moved to America. She was married to a middle eastern man [...]
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Posted on April 6th, 2008 by admin
Basically this book is a long sales brochure for PS (phosphatidylserine). However, it does have some good memory tricks, tests, and exercises. It claims that a 65 year-old who trains using their guidelines (and product) will remember better than an untrained 25 year old.
As we grow older, our ability to remember things, like names and [...]
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