Zambia, The “REAL” Africa: African Adventure – Part 5
Compiled By: Working Class Wanderer-Kathryn Mann “Zambia with its dreamy landscape and astonishing density of wildlife fits perfectly into a trip to Southern Africa. Its unique appeal is its rough edge: known as the “real Africa” Zambia is not set up for independent...
Health For A Lifetime-Part I: Making Small Changes For Big Results
Scientists at Harvard University's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute recently published a formal study that supports something we’ve all known for years. In a study involving mice, they found that by making a number of small changes in nutritional intake and exercise,...
My Shrink Rap
I have been tall since the sixth grade. I remember looking down at boys and liking that feeling of being able to make them feel awkward. But a tall girl was like the plague – avoid coming into contact at all costs. But I liked being tall. Now I am not as tall as my...
This Week SING YES TO YOU!
During the last years of my mother’s life she lived in a wonderful assisted living residence in Manhattan. It was great that either my sister or my son or myself would see her each day. She got more of us in that dwelling than she did when she was in her house in...
The Opinionated Bitch – On Cognitive Dissonance
People tend to seek consistency in their beliefs and perceptions. So what happens when one of our beliefs conflicts with another previously held belief? The term cognitive dissonance is used to describe the feeling of discomfort that results from holding two...
It’s not me, it’s you! Breakup 101
Alasha, I’ve always had a hard time breaking it off with someone I am dating. My normal breakup routine is dodging phone calls, hoping they will eventually get the point or avoiding places I know that person is likely to go. I can admit I probably carry on...
Direct Air Company Has Crashed and Burned
You may have already heard that the discounted airline Direct Air has canceled all flights until May. What you don’t know is that this sent me into a frenzy. The first time I heard of Direct Air was around last year. My roommate uses the airline to fly from Myrtle...
Just Plain Rude – a Night at the Movies
My husband and I went to the movies last weekend with some very good friends, who brought along their 22 year old daughter. These friends have been part of our lives since our children were in pre-school, and since their daughter lives out of town I hadn't seen her in...
Physical Bodies, loss of weight, Determined at Death
Our physical world contains the existence of complexity that has been updated to many new and innovative technological components. We have a better understanding for the supernatural? Knowing that we are not able to visibly recognize energy traveling, it is known that...
Mercury in Retrograde. So this is what hell is like?
This is Mercury. Isn’t he cute? Looks like a bed bug with horns. In 2011, Mercury the wise communicator—and universal trickster—turned retrograde at 19 01’ Virgo, in the sign of the Virgin, sending communications, travel, appointments, mail and the www into a general...
FDA Says Walnuts Can’t Be Proclaimed Good? That’s Nuts!
Lately I've been writing about food labeling. You know, that small print stuff that covers up what's really happening in the food and supplement industry. Well, here's another shocker that's just come to light about, of all things, walnuts being warned by the FDA not...
Spread the Word…Kony: You Need to Know about This Monster
There is a man by the name of Joseph Kony. He is the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army and he abducts children in Uganda, gives them guns, and turns them into soldiers. He forces the boys to kill their families and the girls to become sex slaves. Over 60,000 children...