On average, Americans spend over 12 hours a day in a seated position, slumped at a desk, flopped on a couch, or hunched over a device like Gollum over his ring. Remember a few years back when everyone started saying that sitting was the new smoking? Science now knows that sitting for more than […]
With much trepidation, the Smith Family recently adopted a puppy. To understand why I’ve spent the last two years claiming I was a “cat person” who would never own another dog, you need to know about Siddha Pup. Siddha was a mutt David and I adopted from the Clark County Animal Shelter in 1998. She […]
There is almost always a jigsaw puzzle in some stage of completion on my dining room table. Sometimes I might complete the puzzle over a weekend and other times it takes a few weeks. I never feel pressure to finish a puzzle; I trust it will be completed in its own time. My brother-in-law […]
I have a friend who is an emotional eater. When stressed, food is her comfort. So to set a better example for her daughter, she started dieting and working out. For sixty days, she ate no sugar, caffeine, alcohol, dairy, or gluten. She juiced celery and made cauliflower rice, listened to podcasts about vegan cooking, […]
I watch my daughter battle the Pacific surf and lose, swallowed by a giant wave. The ocean here on Mexico’s west coast is a turbulent, tempestuous thing. Unlike its East coast cousin, this water is dark and moody. It changes temperature on a whim, large swells rolling in without warning. As a very young child, […]
In 1945, a farmer in Colorado named Lloyd Olsen chopped the head off Mike, his prize chicken, because his mother-in-law wanted chicken and dumplings for dinner. Olsen was bad with an axe and, while he did remove most of Mike’s head, he completely missed the jugular vein and the brain stem. Since the brain stem […]
