So, last month, I had the opportunity to visit the House of Sweden (the building that houses the Swedish Embassy in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC). It’s a stunning building with vistas of the Lincoln and Washington Monuments, the Kennedy Center, the infamous Watergate Hotel and Residences, Rosslyn (VA), and Roosevelt Island.
Continue reading The Age of Living Machines
Cancer.
When you are done shuddering, let’s consider the changes in the therapeutic choices. Up until recently, it was radiation and/or chemotherapy.
Continue reading Cancer Vaccines
I have been driving a car for some 54 years. Long before I had a driver’s license. I drove to Suffolk County, Westchester, New Jersey… luckily, I never got stopped or had an accident until my 17th birthday. The day my license actually arrived. (I had taken the test two weeks earlier and was told I passed. Whew!)
Continue reading Drive? Or RideHail?
Yes, I write about farming. Not often. But, when I have something to offer, I share it. (To be honest, the bulk of this post has been in my queue for a while- I was looking for some timely information to allow it the light of day. Read on!)
Continue reading Old McDonald Had a Farm…
What determines if we are skinny as a rail or as wide as a hula hoop?
Sure, if my daily diet includes ice cream, donuts, three bagels, 2 liters of pop, two bottles of wine- then I will approach hula hoop status- unless I ride my bike for 50 miles a day or swim 15 miles routinely.
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48, 49, 50!
I already told you about L’ag B’Omer, the 33rd day between Pesach (Passover) and Sh’vuot. Tomorrow, will be the 50th day of that counting period. 50 days after we were freed from Egypt (Mitzrayim- a place of narrow straits), we were waiting by Mount Sinai (sorry- NOT in the “Sinai Peninsula”, more likely in Saudi Arabia, near an active volcano), to receive the 10 Commandments. Where the words were seen- yes, seen. I admit, until I saw the effects of a rocket plant explosion in Henderson, Nevada, I had no idea you really could see “sound”. Not surprising that those in attendance were totally awed…
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It was 75 years ago. And because of that, so many young children don’t have a clue what today is.
D-Day. The day the Allies launched a full-scale invasion of the European mainland; the first rung in the eradication of Adolph Hitler and his stranglehold on freedom and his promotion of anti-Semitism. (Do not for a moment think that the Allied forces did any war planning or actions to terminate the Holocaust, though. Because they didn’t!)
Continue reading 6 AM on the 6th, under a full moon
I planned to have this post follow the one on Monday where we discussed sweeteners in pop. But, as I moved things in my queue around, it turned out I needed to interrupt the flow to recognize the significance of the 4th of June.
Continue reading Mirror, mirror on the wall…
I am always flabbergasted that so many folks believe that our country is perfect. Almost always, these folks are WrongWingers- and the fact of the matter is that they only know the myths- but not the facts about the USA.
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About two decades ago, we were retained to bring about a change in Bolivia. (We actually were working on several interesting projects in Bolivia at the time. It was right after Jorge Quiroga was elected President.)
Continue reading Calorie free pop?