Here comes another study, about wild mushrooms called turkey tails, and this one is right up my mushroom hunter’s alley: The University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing has received a $2.3 million grant to do a rigorous scientific study on whether turkey tail mushroom extract can boost and maintain the immune responses of... Read more
About ten years ago, much to the amusement of my friends and Jungian therapist, I resolved not to improve myself for an entire year. No more self-help books. Out with diets, self-critical analyses, and crises of fashion. After an intense period of self-improvement following a divorce, I was giving myself permission to leave myself in peace for... Read more
I’ve been hearing a lot about YouTube lately, but it’s taken quite a few info hits to get me to explore it, much less get a grip on what it is. As with the Blackberry, upon which apparently millions of lives depend but which remains a mystery to me, I seemed to be living quite well without it, and there have been more pressing demands on my... Read more
A brief news story on ABC’s Good Morning America show this morning reported a study claiming that dusting, doing dishes, and scrubbing floors—i.e. housework—works better at breast cancer prevention than participation in sports—20 to 30 percent better. I worry about media reports like that, so I Googled it. At first I found a study... Read more
For so long I’ve associated Betty Ford with her famous drug and alcohol recovery retreat—the Betty Ford Center—that until the recent flurry of news over her husband’s passing, I’d forgotten that her addiction was preceded by a diagnosis of breast cancer and a mastectomy. Betty Ford may have been the first celebrity—Gerald Ford, had... Read more
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