Brand New Weight Loss Miracle Food
This is a new one– resistant carbs. “Starch can fall into one of three classifications: readily digestible, slowly digestible and resistant. The latter does not get absorbed in the small intestines. Starch foods that fall into the resistant category are only minimally digested. On a side note, any digestion that takes place is slow, which [...]
Cross Quarter Day
Terry Smith at TheTownTalk has some inspiring words for Pagans celebrating Imbolc this February 2nd. The Winter Solstice has passed, the historical lunar eclipse was seen, and now we go forth from darkness into light. It is the center point of the dark half of the year. The holiday of Imbolc or Candlemas is also [...]
Cotton Mather Action Figure
As your opinionated citizen-journalist noted in Afraid of Our Own Shadow, there’s not much in the culture that doesn’t connect with politics. Proving once again that great minds think alike, Alex Mar of Salon sees more than entertainment in the rise of exorcism in fiction, movies and practice… The exorcism movie is the most all-American [...]
Challenger
In 1986 I was launching my health care career, pounding the floors as a nurses aid at Wayland Health Center. That’s where I heard the news of the Challenger disaster. A space shuttle launch had become routine. The inclusion in the crew of a teacher, Christa McAuliffe, was the human interest until that tragic launch. [...]
Our Love-Hate Relationship with the Great Education Myth
Lots going on in education news these days, it seems. First, we are crucifying this poor woman for trying to sneak her kid into a better school. It’s a familiar story — we did something similar to a woman here in Providence recently, as was covered in the long-ago early days of Kmareka. Apparently, this [...]
Bambi vs Eminem
I don’t usually link to Fox ‘News’, but they got the scoop on the attempted attack on our beloved national crooner, Eminem. Fortunately, the terroristic feral intruder was stopped by a gate. Hang tough, Eminem. No random deer gonna sneak up on you.
Live at the Liberty
Judy, concierge and cook extraordinaire, may be the star chef tomorrow. Today the word is that there is a run on chocolate chip muffins. The inch of snow we were promised looks like about three and fluffy on the sidewalks, slushy on the roads. Coming north up Elmwood it looked like the Providence side had [...]
Afraid of Our Own Shadow
Early visit is cancelled and I’m psyched for work but stalled for a half hour. The TV is on, Anthony Hopkins is starring in a re-make of ‘The Exorcist’. I’m still just Catholic enough that this stuff creeps me out, and Pagan/Earth Religion enough that I have several effective recipes for pest removal, even non-corporeal [...]
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