Category: health | A Year of Reading (with gratitude)

November 7, 2019

I am grateful for my memory. I keep checking on it and although it doesn’t have the same alacrity it once did, it’s still intact.

November 4, 2019

I have a new project. I’m going to shift my mindset and decide that I love winter. I must. I dread the season so entirely

November 2, 2019

As I look back over nearly a year of proclamations of gratitude, I note that spring and summer and fall each earned excitement. Beautiful seasons,

October 7, 2019

I am grateful to every restaurant that keeps its online menu up-to-date. It’s vital for me to plan how many carb units I’m consuming at

October 1, 2019

I am grateful for the watchers, the inspectors. At least at the Minnesota State Fair, the food inspection is rigorous (if not so much the

May 31, 2019

I am grateful that medicine has evolved to the point where early detection can head off all sorts of health issues. A word today: don’t

May 28, 2019

When someone asks what your favorite food is … a barrage of tastes, smells, and images floods into the open space of possible answers. You

February 6, 2019

What’s your best place to think? Mine is in the shower. All kinds of ideas are borne in that soothing cascade of water. I get

February 5, 2019

My mother was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma just 10 days before she died. An incredibly healthy woman all of her life, this was a

February 1, 2019

Eighteen years ago, I woke up in the recovery room after a particularly rough surgery and said, in that anesthetic fog, “I feel like I

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