Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
Engineers tend to focus on what’s wrong or could be improved. In contrast, creative writers need to be able to turn off their internal fault-finder, to get a full draft done before paralyzing themselves with analyzing the flaws. I’m definitely the engineer type. I have always tended to think negatively,...
Lee gets a break, for once. Cruising through the Compass Rose subdivision, looking for packages to snag, and here comes a Package Express vehicle from the other direction. It passes, and Lee sees in the rear-view mirror where it stops. No hurry, proceed to the end of the block and...
Beyond the spam I discuss in How Not to Spam My Blog, I also receive frequent emails that are computer generated and sent using the Contact Dan’l page. So far, they all seem to come from the same source, using a variety of email addresses that I suspect are invented...
In three years of high school, Chatsworth High class of 1974, I took five Advanced Placement classes and did well in all of them. But I only took three of the AP tests. Passing the test could be worth college credits. I didn’t want too many of those, because I...
At one level of description, everything that happens is extremely unlikely. So many other things could have happened, but didn’t. At another level, because it happened, everything seems to have been inevitable. I have seen several versions of a line of reasoning that goes something like this: the conditions required...
It is 2022, the last Thursday in September. After Senior Boot Camp, Kathryn and I, along with some other members of the class, check out the Health and Wellness Fair being held at the fabulous Rancho Cucamonga Community Center. We sign up and receive raffle tickets. There are over 100...
Writers on nutrition, like medical doctors in general, tend to express themselves with a great deal of certainty. Since there are so many areas of disagreement and so much marketing noise, this just confuses the lay public and undermines trust in doctors and medical research. Virtually all such research is...
