Coffee and Dying
November 17, 2015Coffee as liquid concept, and myself a low-bred java connoisseur, didn’t start until middle age — although consumed on a daily basis all my adult life, a great deal of the time even drinking ‘instant,’…
Category Archives: Health
Marijuana — Least Community Drug Threat
November 6, 2015Clear-bright and chilly this Friday morning on California’s north coast with a fairly-decent rainstorm slated for this weekend. And more cool temperatures with the storm, too, as a low pressure shifts southward from the Gulf…
Campus Crazy in a Stab of Panic
November 4, 2015Personal involvement this morning in a national freak-out — more college violence, the latest at the University of California Merced, located about 60 miles north of Fresno, with five wounded, the attacker shot by police…
Educated Mortality
November 2, 2015According to Wikipedia, “middle age” as that ‘…period of age beyond young adulthood but before the onset of old age.’ In birthdays, your 40s, and early 50s, a stretch supposedly where you get a last,…
Touchy Not-So-Feely
October 30, 2015Bright sunshine curdled by a chilly breeze this early Friday afternoon on California’s north coast — clear sailing supposedly until Sunday with another rain-front expected, and more cool temperatures. In this particular age of much-ado…
‘Weed Czar’ in Charge
October 15, 2015Until just recently, marijuana had been considered outside the bubble of reality, playing on the edges of society, despite pot’s huge following, and maybe next year it will be actually legal. A longtime-a-coming last Friday,…
NRA Terror
October 5, 2015Sunshine this Monday afternoon on California’s north coast with a fog bank drifting in place just down the street, creating cooler temperatures than yesterday — overall, however, we’re shooting mostly for good weather for awhile.…
Cannabis and Pain
October 2, 2015Warm sunshine tempered by a chilled Pacific breeze this Friday afternoon on California’s north coast, with nearly-clear skies and a sunny look to the weekend. In the ongoing enlightenment of the wonderous marijuana plant, another…
‘Conscious’ Selfie
September 29, 2015In a sense within my own personal space, cocooned as it were in time, knowingly-conscious right now in the nowadays, a reflective mirror via Miss Emily Dickinson: “Wonder — Is Not Precisely Knowing” Wonder—is not…
Java Day!
September 29, 2015Overcast skies highly-influenced by a persistent marine layer this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast — a hint of sunshine every-once-in-awhile, but mostly just a gray landscape. Internal perkiness, though, is easily swallowed as today…