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Twenty Years
Twenty years ago the internet was a small collection of goverment and educational computers, a place for scientists to communicate. Today, you can access the internet and 3 billion other connected beings with a device that fits in your pocket. Twenty years ago your car had an AM/FM radio, and a fancy cassette player. Today, your car plays music and helps you navigate with signals sent from satellites that orbit the earth. Twenty years ago, hearing impairment meant wearing funny... Read More
Count Your Blessings
Recently my mother was attending a show. They called a woman in the audience to come on stage as it was her 95th birthday. She excitedly got up from her chair and with surprising agility climbed the steps. They then began to play her favorite song. With a lot of enthusiasm, she sashayed across the stage as she enjoyed her special moment. A few weeks later my mother was attending another show at this same venue. A woman in the audience got up and commented that it had been her... Read More
Swimming in the Bliss of Natural Birth
I’d always imagined a natural birth. In our 20s my cousin, Christina, and I would joke and laugh about squatting in the shade of a tree to have our babies—and we were just joking…but not completely. Through my 30s I watched not one or two, but almost all my friends enthusiastically enter the hospital in labor, having claimed for nine months that they would have a natural birth, and saw them come out 2-10 days later having been induced, forced to labor on their back,... Read More
Health
Book Review: Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? (Children’s Nutrition)
Whether the subject is religion, education, politics, or even eating — when you swim against the current, you’d better be strong, confident, and resilient. Parents who work to feed their children nutritious foods know this well. The Sea Change Around the world and throughout time, the choice of what to eat has been made by [...]
Reviews
Movie Review: Another Earth
The possibility of another planet that can sustain life is a frightening thought for many people. Even worse is the idea of a duplicate self on that planet. Would you want to have a conversation with your duplicate or runaway or blindly pretend they do not exist? Part sci-fi and part indie drama, Another Earth explores many [...]
Astrology
Your Winter Stars: Astrology Forecast (Winter 2012)
Welcome 2012! We’ve been waiting for you and I couldn’t be more excited to see a New Year arrive. It’s a year filled with financial opportunity and political debate that ends with a new plan and likely a new man in the White house. The first six months have powerful Mars transits that keep business [...]
Beauty
Natural Skin Care Products
Unfortunately many people underestimate the importance of skin care. Skin, our largest organ, must be protected from the elements. Our layers of skin protect us from the elements and play a vital role in immune system. By nourishing skin on the outside, we are also protecting our insides. Skin topography is the most important indicator of [...]
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