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Get Dirty, for Less Depression
Why I am going to go garden after work to alleviate frustration with technical glitches: Some researchers have proposed that the sharp rise in asthma and allergy cases over the past century stems, unexpectedly, from living too clean. The idea is that routine exposure to harmless microorganisms in the environment—soil bacteria, for instance—trains our immune [...]
Entreprenuership and an Unstructured Lifestyle
I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to impose my own “structure” on life. As I am contemplating entreprenuership, how do I balance and manintain separation? So often, I want to structure my time as “now” and “not now”. I came across this excertpt again: The roles of wife and mother add [...]
Labels and Self-Perception
I’ve been thinking about labels this weekend. I’m doing some research for a contracting position I’d really like to land and so I’ve been looking into a number of books on Autism and getting help for “disorders.” I don’t want to minimize the importance of any help that people need or should advocate for, but [...]
Long Term Study Shows Meds Help ADHD In Schools
I was lucky. School always interested me so I didn’t have the same problems as a lot of kids with attention and focus. I saw an article today while I was looking at the news about swine flu, and wondered if my life would have been different if I took meds during school. These days, [...]
So Many Projects, So Little Time
As is so often the case, this first post for my new blog has been in the “to do” reminder list for over a week now. Mind you, it’s not that I don’t want to write it, it’s just that there are so many other things I”m trying to do at the same time. What [...]