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Mass E-mail
If you are visiting this blog because of the mass email that I sent out using my university account (that will soon die), thanks for...
harp, 20 July 2005 |
CT
Hello everyone! I'm having a great time with family here at the Maggie P. Soon I'll give everyone my new email address and a link to...
IrishOboe Goes Overseas
A point of contact between the Itinerant Musician and her friends and family. Right now it bears too much of the System Administrator's...
Tofu and Fertility, Science and Common Sense
Women who want to get pregnant are now being advised to avoid tofu and other soy products , at least around the peak times for...
Judging a Book by Its Cover
I've never read Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right , and frankly I doubt it...
Dance with Your Baby!
Score one more for mothers. When you sang to your baby, rocking and bouncing him, or danced with him around the room, others may have...
Music Meme
This isn't high on the list of important things I have to do at the moment, but Jon challenged me and it looks like fun, so I'll see if...
Memorial Day
Like many Americans, we plan to spend this Memorial Day relaxing with friends. As good and proper an activity as that is, we would be...
Boosting Your Brain Power
Who wouldn't want to be smarter, think more clearly, and be able to concentrate better? New Scientist has compiled a list of...
Cattlemen's Barbecue Sauce
Back in the old days, when corportate headquarters was on One Mustard Street in Rochester, New York, Porter worked for the R. T. French...
RSS
For those of you to whom this matters, I've added syndication links (RSS, etc.) to the right-hand panel. I'm a complete novice here, but...
Breastfeeding and Blood Pressure
Research has shown, once again, that the human body works best when used according to its original design. A study of more than 2000...
Claude Moore Colonial Farm
Just off the Georgetown Pike (Route 193) in McLean, Virginia, right across from the CIA, you can step back in time to 1771 at the...
Out of the Mouths of Babes
I have an eight year old friend who is a self-proclaimed vegetarian ("I don't like meat"), although this is not entirely accurate, since...
Sunshine
When God created the sun, He called it good. In recent years we have been told that God was wrong. Doctors—and hence parents,...
Who Will Make Medical Decisions for You and Your...
While the United States is busy wrestling with the so-called right to die, in the United Kingdom it's the right to life that is in...
Who Are You?
The statistics for this blog tell me that I have had over 1400 unique visitors so far. Since only a handful have left comments, it...
Aaannd, That's Why I Like Frazz
Sometimes I like the Frazz comic because of its references to things that have meaning to me but are relatively obscure (like the...
"Virtual Doctor" Is Not ALL Bad News
Parents in Rochester, New York no longer have to stay home with sick children, nor be inconvenienced by having to take them to the...
Now They Tell Us
I'm am really tired of reading about procedures that were once known to be right now being shown to be useless or even harmful....
05-05-05
Happy Cinco de Mayo to all!
Cancer Screening
Regular breast self exams, pap smears, mammograms, colonoscopies, prostate exams, full excision and pathological examination of moles...
National Teacher Day
So today is National Teacher Day. (I know because Google told me so.) Since this blog includes rants against the terrible damage...
Who Will Make Medical Decisions for You and Your Family?
If this story doesn't scare you, you need to read it again. (Here's another version .) A 14-year-old Canadian girl has gone into...
Work
Hard, painstaking work is the toll an independent spirit charges itself for self-respect. — John Taylor Gatto