Posted in Computers, Computers and Internet, Health, Health and Wellness, Internet, Life, News, News and Politics, Science and Technology, Technology, Wellness on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
As you’ve no doubt been able to tell, I’m not killing myself writing new posts on my blog. Seems there are others who have been, however.
Pity.
Posted in Books, Drink, Food and Drink, Health and Wellness, Life, Wellness, Writing on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s another book that’s gotten a lot of attention over the last few months. The director of our public library suggested I read Michael Gates Gill’s How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else.
Reading some of the online reviews and reader comments it seems people often miss the point [...]
Posted in Health, Health and Wellness, Life on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Had a routine office visit with my doctor this week. For the last seven year my blood pressure has been stable, reliably around 120/80. Not so this time - 150/90. Now he says he wants me to monitor it daily and see him again in a couple of months.
Sucks.
I know, I shouldn’t complain. A lot [...]
Posted in Health, Health and Wellness, Life, Wellness on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There was a time when I smoked. It wasn’t really until I was in basic training with the Army that I smoked; actually, it was when I had washed out of basic training and was waiting for my discharge orders and a flight home. But I became a regular smoker, and stayed that [...]
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Health and Wellness, Life, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Wellness on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Make a habit, break a habit. That’s what I said a couple weeks before New Year’s. Having any luck?
With me it’s pretty much same ol’, same ol’, y’know.
I’ve been a little more conscious of the stress level in my life, and trying not to do things that add to it. Honestly, though, I’m not [...]
Posted in Books, Catholic, Entertainment, Health and Wellness, Hobbies, Life, Motorcycles, Music, Photography, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Wellness, Writing on January 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In my previous post I intended to talk a little more about the sometimes jarring experience of returning to work after an extended vacation. Whether two weeks constitutes an “extended vacation” is, of course, debatable, but let’s just stipulate to that, okay?
During vacation I was able to do more of the things that make me [...]
Posted in Computers and Internet, Health and Wellness, Internet, Life, Wellness on December 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For those of you who are looking beyond Christmas, New Year’s is only two weeks away. The coming of a new year is a time many look forward to with resolve, to make new habits, or to break old habits. A quick search shows about 2.5 million ways to make a habit or break one. [...]
Posted in Books, Catholic, Health and Wellness, Life, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Thomas Merton, Wellness on October 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been working my way through the journals of Thomas Merton lately. Several years ago I read Merton’s autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, after stumbling into it completely by accident. His style of writing, and thinking, struck a chord and I have been reading his work ever since.
Having read several of his books now, but [...]
Posted in Food, Food and Drink, Government, Health, Life, News, News and Politics, Politics on September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In my mail at work the other day I received a copy of “For I Was Hungry,” an editorial series run this summer by the central Maine newspapers the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. The series is about hunger in Maine, manifested in what has come to be called “food insecurity.” Food insecurity is, depending [...]
Posted in Health and Wellness, News and Politics on September 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Went to the doctor last week - time for my annual physical. I’m one of the lucky ones, not just because I have a good doctor, and not because my blood pressure is good, or my cholesterol (albeit chemically-assisted) is 150, but because I have a good employer-provided health plan.
Employer-provided health insurance seems to be [...]
