I'm back in Switzerland visiting my family and one of the very first things I notice is the difference in food. The taste, the quality, the very feeling of fullness that you get when you eat food here. Back home I buy organic for most things, but I have to tell you that I had forgotten what onions REALLY smell like until I was here in Switzerland.
Read MoreI know it sounds like I'm talking about a radio, or some electronic thingy, but in truth I'm talking about the human body.
Read MoreWhen we were kids, some of my fondest memories were rolling down a grassy hill, slinging mudballs at my sister and eating snow (well, not the yellow or dirty snow!). Now everything is antibacterial, kids live in sterile capsules and we are constantly washing everything in sight.
Read MoreRecently my photography mentor sent me a poem by an Irish poet friend of his: I would love to live Like a river flows, Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding - John O'Donohue. In truth, we do live like a river and this is the best analogy I've found to explain our health and the path of wellness.
Read MorePart of a parent's job description is constant control over their young child's eating of the world around them.
Read MoreOver the past couple of years I have been spending more time with my friend's children. It reminds me of my grandfather's stories about walking 400 miles to school each day through the snow in the same pair of shoes for 18 years. What brings up those reminiscences are the sheer tsunami-size flood of toys that require batteries.
Read MoreRecently a very wise man said this to me. It really made me stop and think. Color pretends to be realistic.
Read MoreMany years ago I had the most wonderful old salty client. His name was Tom and he was a grizzly old Irish guy from Southie. He used to swear that a drop of the creature (a bit of imbibing) was the cure for every ill.
Read MoreNow we have all known commitmentphobes. Usually men, usually the great-looking men with flashing smiles who smell great and say all the right things. But we are all commitmentphobes of one sort or another.
Read MoreI loved the movie Highlander. Not just because I love Sean Connery when his brogue is broader than the Corrieshalloch Gorge. But because it is one of the most basic concepts in life, literature and the pursuit of happiness.
Read MoreThis weekend is Mother's Day and I'm spending it with my mother. Now it may be the fact that it gives my mother lots of time to think, or it may be the grey Maine rain, but she is haunted by the idea of Alzheimer's Disease or dementia.
Read MoreEach of us has developed a routine. We eat the same things, do the same things, use the same things.
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