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Nutritional Blood Analysis
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Nutritional Blood Cell Analysis Until a few weeks ago, I had never heard of it. I got emails from Abbey’s health food store, and there was an invitation to a nutritional blood cell analysis. “It can tell you things that your annual blood test cannot.” REEEEAAALLLY? Interesting. If it told…
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Did you miss the mid-January asteroid?
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I didn’t miss it, I just didn’t want to know. Ukraine hadn’t started yet, but the Jan 6 Committee was hard at work. Dr. Fauci was refusing to say that the pandemic was winding down. That Rabbi threw a chair at a gunman and the hostages escaped. The whole vax/not…
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So the Earth’s atmosphere is warming while its core is cooling
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The Earth’s core is cooling faster than scientists thought. Well of course it is. Because there’s not enough going on in our world. Election challenge(s). Insurrection. Covid. Inflation. Ukraine and Russia. Exploding undersea volcanoes and the planet core is cooling (or maybe those are related?) So, the outside of the…
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Emotion: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
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I am not an emotional person, though I sometimes play one in certain circumstances. I have a slow-burn temper, something I have cultivated as I have “matured.” One way I do this is by pretending to be mad well before I’m actually mad. This generally gets the other person to…
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Manatees and seagrass and not thinking ahead
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If you live in Florida, you probably know that manatees are starving because seagrasses are dying. Scientist are desperately trying to feed them lettuce and while it wasn’t working at first, the manatees are coming around. But, how long can we do that? This Smithsonian article is about the value…
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What’s in a Vanity Plate
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I bought a sporty little car this summer (you can’t take it with you) and I bought a vanity plate for it. The plate supports the Florida Wildlife fund and it reads WILDME. That’s how I feel when I drive it. I can feel it in my core. Vroom, vroom.…
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Global warming allows iguana hordes to conquer South Florida
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If you have never been to Fort Lauderdale or Miami, or haven’t been there recently, it’s not just the growth you’ll notice or the diversity. You’ll notice the lizards, the big ubiquitous lizards. They are on the streets, in the trees (though as we’ve learned over the last week, they…
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About five years ago I started a journey to develop my craft as a writer. The writing I wanted to do wasn’t the kind that I’d been paid to produce my entire professional career. I was taking an online class about braided essays, where you take two (or more) seemingly…
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Toilet to Tap. Safe. Cost-effective.
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Opponents of recycling wastewater into drinking water call it toilet to tap to make it gross and unacceptable to the public. Years ago, I recommended that the national Reuse Association take the term and make it their own. “Use it,” I said, “take the power of the words away by…
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Joyce Maynard The Best of Us
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Thursday, when I told a friend that I was reading Joyce Maynard’s book, The Best of Us, she asked what it was about. I told her that it was about her husband’s diagnosis and death from pancreatic cancer. “Stop that,” she told me. “Don’t do that depressing stuff.” “it’s not…