Are you: Busy? A food lover? Always looking for some new, easy, & (somewhat) nutritious recipes? I always love finding new recipes to try out, & they score bonus points if they’re even vaguely healthy! Here are three tried & tested options that I thought I’d share with you this week: Two Minute…
If you’re in the same position as me and have a full time job in addition to running a freelance business, you’ll know all about “not enough hours in the day”. Even without my freelancing, my life is busy enough: I get up at 5am & drive 45 miles to work I do volunteer…
This past weekend I had an enjoyable experience in Ogdensburg, upstate NY at their annual Founder’s Day commemoration of the region’s French colonial history. They held a re-enactment of the French-Indian War, bringing the mid-18th century to life for a couple of days. One of the events I attended there was a lecture on “18th…
With heat warnings and advisories in effect in most states at the moment, and especially spreading east right now, it’s time to take action and ensure that your pets are protected from heat stress. SOME TIPS TO HELP KEEP YOUR PETS SAFE: Indoors Provide extra drinking water, especially if your home is not air conditioned…
Every year, over 40 million people in the US suffer from anxiety disorder, and more than 20 million will experience some depressive illness. Although anxiety is a natural reaction of the body to any risk, threat, or danger, if your worries become a recurring theme and prevent you from living a normal life, this could suggest an anxiety…
The latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine describes the results of an interesting series of cases of respiratory symptoms in a group of soldiers returning from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. Eighty soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, were referred for medical evaluation due to respiratory symptoms between 2004-2009. All were unable to…
Everyone should have an up to date resume ready – whether you have no desire to leave your current job, or whether you are looking to transition to a new position as a full-time or freelance worker. Although “anything is better than nothing” in an emergency, ideally you want to avoid your resume being a…
Everyone seems to be twitterizing themselves, so I decided to jump on the bandwagon. Apparently I’m not very chatty, interesting, or enthusiastic – seems I may benefit from more socialization, and less twitterization! I did love the “likely obsession” though – anyone who knows me will know how my cat is my nemesis…….she’s tried to…
I’m a pathologist, so buying this book was a no-brainer for me. Mary Roach is a science writer, originally from New Hampshire, whose previous lives took her through freelance copy editing and public relations at the San Francisco Zoo! “Stiff” was her first book, released in 2003. It shares the findings from her exploration…
“Chocolate poisoning” represented one of the “Top 10” pet poisonings reported by the Animal Poison Control Center of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). This occurs as a result of an adverse reaction to the alkaloid theobromine in chocolate. The toxicity affects dogs more than cats, probably because they are…
