Aunt Mimi is home now. I’m glad she didn’t have to struggle through a long rehabilitation or linger unresponsive for a long time. I’m glad I got to spend time with her twice this year. I’m glad she told me when I was a rotten teenager that God had a plan for...
What does a carbohydrate addict do when all her favorite foods are off limits? I now literally walk down the bread aisle telling myself, “Poison, poison, poison . . . ” because that’s the effect all those wonderful goodies have on my body. So here’s how I’ve been managing the desire for certain foods that...
Sometimes there’s just no other perspective than the one that has you flat on your belly, face in the grass making friends and strangers alike wonder what in the world is so compelling that you’d make a fool of yourself in public like that. Nothing wrong with the end of the fence shots. Nothing wrong...
At least Craig Venter is honest in saying his team didn’t create life from scratch, even if some of the media are getting carried away with it. He has an interesting result, for sure, but even the statement that they have synthesized man-made DNA is a little suspect to my mind. Everything I’ve read...
The 211 reading highlighted is my fasting blood sugar the morning I restarted a low-carb eating program. This morning, my FBS was 104 with two post meal readings below 100 yesterday. Not quite a cure, and I am still using 2 grams of metformin per day, but definitely encouraging. And with things...
I got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes just in time for my 40th birthday (happy birthday to me!). The first two doctors I had were pretty good. Each of them would spend half an hour to an hour per appointment explaining what I needed to know, going over test results, explaining medications and...
If any of my math teachers had ever told me you could do THIS with math, I might have paid more attention in math class. Amazing stuff. It reminds me of fractals, but I don’t know what the mathematical relationship is between the two. Click on the pictures if you want to read more....
Reading another article at SciAm today – The Moral Call of the Wild: A study suggests that spending time in nature changes our values. The basic gist of the article is a new study has “shown” (I’d have to see more about the structure and methodology of the study to remove the quotes) that people...
Seeing stuff like this always makes me wish I had the decorating gene. I don’t. Boy do I don’t!!! I see nice stuff in the store but never think it might look nice in my house. I see nice arrangements in other people’s houses and never think to try to do...
It only took 2 years, but we finally found Spunkmeyer’s favorite TV program (I suppose it didn’t help that the TV was never on before we moved to the new place). Sunrise Earth on HD Theater really gets him looking around trying to find the other birds and watching the screen, and even vocalizing...
