Writing the good read
This week for my Health123.com blog, I look at the power of small changes and how, over time, they can have a big positive impact. It’s not just intuitive truth, but scientifically proved. A lot of the literature and idea-banking of small changes is about diabetes, in part because it is such a huge problem,…
Just about every Monday, I have a blog posted at Health123.com. I love the work I do for this local health and wellness start-up, and I believe in the company. It not only works with companies to help their employees manage their health, but it offers great tools to help individuals keep track of how…
While out doing errands today, I was listening to A Prairie Home Companion on KUOW, my local NPR station, when Garrison Keillor launched into his news from Lake Wobegon. He was talking about how people will like things despite common sense — like the love of the desert southwest in the summer even though you…
I’m going to start a list, compiled from my much-too-frequent interactions with physicians and other healthcare professionals, of things that these professionals say and do that they probably shouldn’t. Some sound funny, but are still potentially problematic. * When you go see your OB/GYN before becoming sexually active after a break, and you ask the…
In my 49 years, I have gained some wisdom. Some, like don’t touch fire, came easily, if painfully. Others, such as daring the universe to laugh at you by speaking aloud the Always and Nevers of your belief system, I have learned only slowly and with much pain. For example, about 12 years ago, I…
I lost Saturday. I went to bed on Friday night, and when I couldn’t sleep, I read into the wee hours. I fell asleep at about 5:30 a.m. My intention was to get up around noon. When I first awoke, it was late afternoon, and I wasn’t able to get up. Darling Son always asks,…
My friend Sandy is really into food and animal welfare, and over the past year or so, she has moved from a vegetarian to a vegan diet. The impact on my life includes trips to amazing vegan restaurants that I didn’t know existed, like Araya‘s in Bellevue, which specializes in vegan Thai food. She picked out…
Note: This blog post is adapted from one I wrote for my trainer, Ja’Warren Hooker, a former Olympic sprinter who enjoys making me sweat. I don’t love exercise. Growing up, my friends and I referred to it as “The E Word”. I like the way I feel afterwards, but the whole process of being sore…
And hating it anyway It’s been more than a decade since I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. It’s a disease that people often confuse with osteoarthritis because they both impact the joints and can lead to debilitating disability. And they both have the word arthritis in them. But my version is an autoimmune disease that…
If my life is a movie, I get that I’m the star, and the director and producer, but I’m pretty darn sure at this point that someone else wrote the script. Because this is not where I’m supposed to be, in an personal care aisle in a superstore looking at 18 shelf feet of choices…