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Category Archives: Health

Love it or hate it No matter your approach to it there is a constancy to the work of cooking. Even the simplest tasks require some degree of preparation, assembly, and cleanup. If you hate it the work is odious, if you love it can literally and figuratively feed you. Either way, most of us […]

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Better than what? I would like to be better. But it’s not that easy. An old friend often responds to my snarky Twitter posts with that very tag; #Be Better. I suppose he means to be kinder, but he is a kind of snarky person himself, so maybe he means be even better at being […]

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Hoping and dreading Last week I got the email with the best worst news I’ve been awaiting. Or was it the worst best news? The university where I work(ed) is reopening for the fall semester, and I will return to work in August. Yeah! Oh. What do you want first? The good news or the […]

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I’m not a fan I hear there are people who love that new car smell so much they buy air freshener that mimics it. I’m not a fan. Nevertheless, back in the time before, I was planning to buy a new car. It’s been quite a while since I dared to consider such a purchase, […]

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How can I write when the world is on fire? There is the non-stop noise of helicopters through my windows, how can I write? My country is on fire, and the President is spreading gasoline, how can I write? People are succumbing by the thousands to a pandemic that ravages communities in disproportionate, direct, and […]

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