by Sue | May 16, 2021 | Body & Soul
The growing season has begun. Professional landscapers drive their huge mowing machines like race cars on the S curves of Watkins Glen racetrack. I’ve lost a few fence corners to those roaring grass cutters over the years. Still, for me, they are a godsend. I simply...
by Sue | Apr 18, 2021 | Body & Soul
Think we humans invented teamwork? As usual, Mother Nature is way ahead of us. Only she calls it “synergy.” Entering my world of geekdom, “syn” means together and “erg’ is a unit of work, so synergy means working together. As I am going to discuss today, the edible...
by Sue | Mar 21, 2021 | Body & Soul
Hopefully, we will soon put this pandemic in our collective rear-view mirror, put the pedal to the medal, and reclaim our lives. Three cliches aside, many of us have a little souvenir from our quarantine days. There’s a little bit more of us since this time last year....
by Sue | Feb 20, 2021 | Body & Soul
Today, as I look out at a foot of snow and ice, I thought I would sample Qigong and Yoga to get the body moving indoors. My neighbor is a fan of Qigong Baden-Baden and sent me a link. I tried Lesson 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SliEplK_Ss. I liked that the...
by Sue | Feb 6, 2021 | Body & Soul
When I was in nursing school, we had to write up “bib cards.” We went to our medical library, selected an article to read, jotted down its salient points, and cited its bibliographic information. Bib cards —you could trust that the information was peer reviewed and...
by Sue | Dec 27, 2020 | Body & Soul
It took over a year that included questioning my sanity, to finally prove I had an underactive thyroid gland. You would think that diagnosis would be a slam-dunk, but apparently it can be elusive. That I did not exhibit symptoms in the usual manner could have been the...
