Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
In my software development career, I often repeated a few maxims, including: Always have a backup. If it doesn’t have to work correctly, I can make it really fast. Every problem in computer science can be solved by adding a level of indirection, and Don’t fight the framework. Like all...
The Accident It is 2017, and I had a bad accident, so I’m in hospital for 4 weeks, followed by 3 weeks in inpatient rehab. At least I don’t have to shave, but I need help with everything, and I do mean everything. I was very lucky to only break...
My beautiful niece Hannah died at age 17 after prolonged suffering because of a reaction to a commonly prescribed drug that she took as directed. She became one of the iatrogenic deaths that are the third leading cause of all deaths in the United states. To be clear, this is...
What is the question? There are more than one, including: Why do people keep smoking when they know it is killing them? Why do people seek out excuses to cheat on their diets? Why do people gamble with money they can’t afford to lose? Why is porn damaging so many...
It is summer of 2022. I just wrote a post about Keeping Kosher, which translates somewhat literally as “eating clean.” Lately, I have been hearing the phrase, “eating clean,” in the miasma. Friends are doing it, or trying it. Someone actually claimed that I claimed to do it. I don’t...
I grew up in a Reform Jewish family. We didn’t eat pork, but we did eat pepperoni pizza, so we clearly were not strictly Kosher. I only learned much later in life that pepperoni is a sausage made from pigs. I did learn the most important rules, however. Only later...
