Author: honeyrand
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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…
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Making a Scene at the Doctor’s Office
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A friend told me this story years ago. It’s absolutely true, though the names are changed. TheNursingSite.com published it in June.
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Those growing up in the digital age are being rewired to see the world a whole lot differently. Researchers in Hungary say children who start using digital devices at a young age pay more attention to tiny details and less to the whole picture. The result, some fear, will be…
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Convincing Covidiots
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This researcher wanted to better understand the ways to gain compliance for people to stay at home, wear a mask, and social distance. He used Moral Foundations Theory, which states that people judge the “rightness” or “wrongness” of behaviors along with five different moral concerns or “foundations.” The first is…