Get a grip on time — Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing. Miles Davis You begin typing your blog, and an urge to check your email is so overwhelming it’s worse than the urge to peek in the oven door when baking popovers. Next thing you’re on Facebook and forty-five minutes are gone…

What to fix. — You’re at a cocktail or Thanksgiving gathering, brilliantly rattling away the reams of evidence illustrating how the city maintenance crews waste tax dollars or how, despite the deep tunnel system, sewage is dumped into the lake after heavy rain. Initially, those gathered appear interested and nod in agreement, but when…

In a nutshell, a mixed bag. Those doom and gloom stories rattling in my brain about Medium followers tanking within days and certainly within weeks if a writer abruptly stops posting seemed to miraculously not fully apply. When I finally pulled my frightened ostrich head from the sand and glanced…

The downside to intermittent fasting — Fasting is the way to go if you want to improve your metabolic parameters. Twelve hours or more of not feeding the hungries will decrease plasma blood sugar and insulin levels, reduce inflammatory markers, and improve autophagy (cellular clean-up). …

Sometimes sneezing hurts — There are times when we don’t want to sneeze. I’m not talking about those situations where it can be embarrassing at a luncheon or meeting, when you rifle off a succession of sneezes; I’m talking about pain. …

And it’s not pretty — That cricket might seem harmless or even friendly like the loveable Jiminy Cricket character from Pinocchio but BEWARE. Inside the belly of that droning creature your child caught in the backyard could be a simmering stew of parasites, bacteria, or worse, a slimy bundle of worms. …

What’s it all about? — Other than family members ransacking the Christmas tree each holiday in a frantic search for the pickle ornament to guarantee an extra Santa gift, I am unaware of another game using the word pickle. In fact, other than the word following watermelon, or cucumber dill, pickle isn’t often used. …

It has nothing to do with meeting people — We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. –Albert Schweitzer We are in the aftermath of another contagion; a loneliness infestation. In the months following the pandemic, loneliness is on the rise nearly as fast as food and gas prices. The changes to social behavior…

Willpower is not the way. — photo by ileela/Canva The vast majority of people place too much emphasis on willpower. For example, consider this Google definition of willpower: Control exerted to do something or restrain impulses. I’m okay with the definition; the phrase beneath caught my eye. Most of our bad habits are due to laziness…