It’s National Poetry month people. So get out there and celebrate. Not sure how? Poets.org lists 30 ways that you can slip poetry into your daily activities. I’ve posted before about the heart healthy benefits of reading poetry. Other studies suggest that reading poetry can boost the immune system and also reduce the severity of [...]
August 6, 2009 – 11:11 am
Reading a review of How Not To Act Old by Pamela Redmond Satran (the follow up to How Not To Look Old) revealed the fact that young people don’t wear watches. Is that true? Maybe just the fact that I have to ask that question makes me a member of the old team. I already [...]
The following is one of the questions posed to Lucas Glover during his post tournament interview and courtesy of the U.S. Golf Association Web site.
Q. Talk about how much you love literature and how much you’re doing reading; tell the fans some of your favorite authors so they can go read some of the stuff [...]
At last month’s book club meeting, the question was asked, “Is anyone else feeling overwhelmed by all the new technology that’s out there?” What followed was a very animated discussion of Who had a Face Book page and why? and What was Twitter and why did anyone use it?. One of our members told [...]
Tomorrow I’m headed off to San Francisco to spend the weekend at the beach with ten plus fabulous friends. It’s an annual event. We call ourselves the Stinson Beach Babes. Each year I go, I return home with aching cheek muscles from all the talking and laughing. Our friendships go back some 30 years. Back [...]
This was my book club’s April pick. The story line revolves around Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book expert, who is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of a very REAL book known as the Sarajevo Haggadah ( a book used in the Jewish passover services). The book originated in Spain, during [...]
What better way to celebrate National Poetry Month and do your body some good, than to receive poet.org’s poem a day in your inbox. Poetry has been used for therapeutic purposes in health and healing for centuries. One of the more interesting studies is the effect that poetry has on blood pressure. Apparently, rhythmic vocal [...]
February 3, 2009 – 7:13 pm
The last few weeks my siblings and I have been consumed by helping our 93 year old mom move from her home into an apartment inside the retirement community where she has lived ever since our dad passed away ten years ago. Besides the sorting, tossing, moving and giving away of her things that there [...]
December 2, 2008 – 8:21 pm
I feel better already. Happy with the knowledge that reading book-like text on my computer screen and surfing the web for story ideas is like taking my brain for a walk. The study was done on middle age volunteers ages 55 to 76. Online reading stimulates regions of the brain controlling language, [...]
November 21, 2008 – 6:58 pm
I will wind this week up by recommending another book that reads like a medical thriller but is all too true. Atul Gawnde’s “COMPLICATIONS, A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science” is a collection of eye opening essays written for the New Yorker about patients and their doctors and how deadly mistakes happen. This book [...]
