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The headline reads: Praying Parents Get Jail for Child’s Death.  A Wisconsin couple who prayed rather than seek medical care for their 11-year-old daughter were sentenced this week to 6 months in jail and 10 years probation in the girl’s death. Madeline Neumann died of an undiagnosed but treatable form of diabetes. The parents were convicted of 2nd degree reckless homicide.  In sentencing the couple, Judge Vincent Howard said the Neumanns were “very good people… who made a bad decision.” Prosecutors said the couple had a legal duty to take their daughter to a doctor but relied totally on prayer for healing. Continue reading →

This week I’ve been  getting my quarterly financial documents together for my tax accountant. Until last year, I used an accountant who let me just hand her a box full of papers.  Now I use someone who’s really on the ball and makes me give her my work in organized fashion.  I created a checklist from her email that told me what she needed me to compile for her.  I know if it’s something I only do every 3 months, I could use a To Do List that I can check off to make sure I remember it all.  Even so, this month I seemed to have a hard time deciphering the list, so I put it off until I felt like giving it my full attention.  That time came yesterday. Continue reading →

I had a very productive day yesterday.  After I spent the weekend painting furniture, I was ready to get back in the office and I got a lot of work done, even for a Monday. I spent the morning compiling quarterly documents for my tax accountant, and making my way through the emails that had come in over the weekend.  I’ve been spending time visualizing PayPal donations and so I wasn’t surprised that I had a half dozen waiting for me.  In the afternoon, I ran to the post office, the bank and the produce stand for broccoli, onions, carrots, scallions, mushrooms, tomatoes, romaine and lemons.  I like squeezing lemon juice on my vegetables. It used to be butter on everything; now it’s lemon and parsley – evolution! Continue reading →

This weekend I had all sorts of plans to get all the quarterly records together for my tax accountant, plus make copies of them for her.  I didn’t do any of that.  Instead, I spent Friday moving furniture around, clearing out my back office, and tossing files that I no longer needed. I see former assistants had created folders and filed many things under “miscellaneous” that already had folders created for them elsewhere.  As well as making file folders for individual receipts. Grrrr! Glad I didn’t need to find them before now!  I also  found a giant folder marked “Articles To Use” from 2001, all hard copies.  Aaaugh!  Into the trash to start again.  I put 70 pounds of newsprint in the recycle bin, stuff that never should have been filed in my cabinet in the first place. This will teach me to do my own filing and to know what I have. The good news is I can consolidate down to one giant file cabinet and take the other one out to the shed.  I like to go through every piece of paper in the house on a regular basis, so I don’t turn into one of those people who has bunch of stuff that I don’t know what or where it is. When I know what I have, it seems very manageable and I feel very organized. If I don’t know what i have, I can feel scattered and overwhelmed more easily. Continue reading →

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for.  One morning, a blood vessel in her brain exploded. Taylor had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one.   As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke.   She recounts her experience of living in the right hemisphere of her brain while her analytical left side shut down.  Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk.  Although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy and intuitive awareness from her right.  “How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I’ve gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career.” Continue reading →

The idea of this method is based on the fact that there is a neurological association between the surface cells of the skin and the autonomic nervous system of the body (the sympathetic nervous system), which controls all the biological functions and internal organs, the endocrine glands and the immunity system of the body. Bio magnetic touch healing is one method used for complementary medicine using the bio magnetic energy of the healer. This trend appeared in the United States of America via the International Organization for Bio Magnetic Energy (I.F.B.M.). Nevertheless, there were some researching attempts to prove that this trend appeared before in ancient Egypt. However, these researches have not finished yet.  This method, due to being modern and effective, and after conducting researches on it, is taught in some of the nursing schools in the United States of America and in some of the advanced countries of the world. Continue reading →

If you’re among the many baby boomers and beyond who are noticing that the ads in the media and the shows on tv all are quickly becoming irrelevant for our age group, get used to it. In Retailers turn away from baby boomers, focus on younger customers, we are reminded that the purpose of marketing is to attract dollars, and so it’s only smart to use the shotgun approach and talk only to the audience who is spending.  Of course, that leaves out entire groups of consumers who can’t find what they want.  Not everyone is in business to provide a service or product to their fellow man; most are in it just to make a living.  Rather than complaining about this, because the older you get, the more prevalent it may become, realize there is great opportunity here. This leaves many opportunities for savvy entrepreneurs to fill several niche markets.  Clothing is just one of them. Continue reading →

It’s such beautiful cool weather, I’ve had my windows open since yesterday.  At 2:00pm, it was  84 degrees but only 59% humidity so it felt like 70 degrees.  Actually, anything less than 80% humidity is a relief big time to us here in Florida.  My entire house is under a heavy oak and pine tree canopy, so once the humidity lifts, my place stays nice and cool.  My Uncle Jimmy, who built my home for me back in 1984, put extra insulation in the walls and under the roof and I’m sure that has saved me a bundle in the past 25 years.  In fact, last month when I had my giant head and chest cold, I kept the a/c on 73 degrees for two weeks’ straight because I was fevered.  I got the electric bill today and it was only $116.  I usually keep the a/c on 76 during the day and down to 73 or 74 at night and my Florida Power and Light bill for my little 2,000 square feet cottage is usually about $90.  I know that’s cheap.  When winter comes, I usually keep the thermostat set to come on automatically if the temperature drops to 55.  I rarely have the heater on.  I enjoy the cool air, and especially like to sleep with the windows open at night when the cool air is blowing through.  That’s because being cold in Florida happens so seldom that it’s a novelty.  I’m sure I wouldn’t want to sleep with windows open in Montana. Continue reading →

On Twitter: I’m in a board meeting, having a miscarriage. In Tweeting Your Miscarriage: Is Nothing Sacred? Melinda Henneberger writes: “Thus did 43-year-old Penelope Trunk, CEO of the aptly named “Brazen Careerist” blog, Twitter her recent miscarriage: “I’m in a board meeting. Having a miscarriage. Thank goodness, because there’s a f***-up 3-week hoop-jump to have an abortion in Wisconsin.” (The asterisks are mine, not hers.)  It seems a lot of people have the judgment that was too much information and were offended by it.  To them, I say, then don’t have that person on your Twitter stream.  And don’t care who else does.  Isn’t the point of a free country to be able to say what we want when we want?  It’s the same as tv: I have the right to mute or change channels when anything comes up that I don’t want to be subjected to.  And the broadcasters have the right to broadcast what they do and the producers have the right to have the actors say what they do.  People have a right to say what they want to say, and to share whatever intimate details of their life they want to share.  It is up to them to decide what is appropriate to share.  Just because it’s not something you want to know about them, doesn’t mean it’s not appropriate for them to say it.  And I personally would be much more offended by the violence on the news than by someone blogging the details of her own personal life.  I think she’s bold and courageous to be so open.

And after the media exposure, it’s gotta be good for business.

Or maybe that was the point.

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Mmm sweet honeysuckle

Autumn has officially arrived here in central Florida. Just before sundown yesterday, I noticed it was cooler outside than in, so I turned off the a/c and opened up all the windows.  That means we had only five months of summer heat and humidity this year – yay!  Right now it’s down to 65 degrees and 65% humidity – ideal snoozing weather!  Actually, anytime it’s less than 80% humidity, I like it, no matter what the temp.  Less than 70% – heaven!  One nice thing about getting to sleep with the windows open is that I can hear all the night critters as they make their way along the trails; the raccoons, the armadillos, opossums, squirrels and bunnies.  I can hear the frogs and the crickets, and the occasional car on the road.  I can hear the bamboo rustle and creak and I can smell the night blooming jasmine and honeysuckle growing outside my bedroom window.  All these things I miss for 5-6 months each year as I live inside in the a/c.  So when the first cool of autumn hits, to me that means vacation time. Continue reading →