ChanDeereGreen

So – two trips to the ER. Every test an ER can do. There is nothing at all wrong with me. I’m in*perfect* health. (Okay, that part is good, and I am grateful.) Except for the part where it really hurts to breathe.  I have been aware of and pretty well in control of my [...]

Yeah, so – I spent Tuesday night in the E.R.  No rumors of my demise, please – I’m fine. I just couldn’t breathe very well. It was scary. I’m not gonna lie.  Saturday I started having a little trouble breathing. Nothing dramatic, just … it felt like I had run a mile or so, when [...]

A year ago, I was annoyed. Today, I am appalled. I heard an interesting lecture recently – it was in a recording of the “Lead Like Jesus” presentation hosted by Ken Blanchard, Bill Hybels, and Rick Warren. The point emphasized by one speaker (I’m sorry I don’t remember which one, I was driving my ca

In my line of work, there is a lot of discussion about “pedagogy” v. “androgogy” (thank you, Dr. Knowles) – basically the differences in how children learn v. how adults learn. I won’t bore you. But the question that always interests me is, of course – what about our teens? How do they learn best? 

is that they don’ t seem to work for a lot of kids. Why is that? I know that the trend in U.S. education is to try to make it all more standardized, to get rid of the gaps between the “great” schools and the barely-functional ones that may be doing more harm than good. [...]

First disclaimer… I am NOT going to push Paleo, low-carb, or any other food/lifestyle philosophy on ANYONE. Everyone has different blood chemistry and food sensitivities. I react badly to processed carbs, it took me decades to figure that out, so I just don’t do them anymore. That’s just me. I know

Sidetracked. Scattered. Random. I am all of the above, stops, thinks for a second about where she is going from here, goes downstairs to get a banana, decides to do this as a stream-of-consciousness post and see what happens and some days it is worse than others. The past couple of weeks I have been

I wish there was a trustworthy list somewhere on the big magical information-net of all the cleaning products and what chemicals they contain. There is not. And cleaning products are not required to list their ingredients.  ”Green” cleaners are, generally speaking, more “greenish.” There’s a spectru