Ultra-Processed People: The Food That Isn't Food — A Book Review

Ultra-Processed People: The Food That Isn’t Food — A Book Review

As regular readers know, I’ve long been heavily concerned with food: the effects on my body of what I eat. I noticed, for example,…

Looking the World Frankly in the Face: One Skeptic's Case for Belief

Looking the World Frankly in the Face: One Skeptic’s Case for Belief

Some books you up pick up and you know – “Woops, this is going to be interesting!” Christopher Beha, Why I Am Not An…

Quakers Speak Out: Accompaniment and Testimony in a Time of Adversity

Quakers Speak Out: Accompaniment and Testimony in a Time of Adversity

The following excerpt shows some of what goes on with Quakers. See the more complete report at Epistle from Quaker Trans Day of Visibility…

Doctored: When Alzheimer's Research Was Built on Lies

Doctored: When Alzheimer’s Research Was Built on Lies

For the last couple of weeks, horrified and sort of scared, I’m been studying the book, Charles Piller, Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in…

War Is Being Reinvented: What Drones Are Doing to Modern Combat

War Is Being Reinvented: What Drones Are Doing to Modern Combat

I breathed a huge sigh of relief – a writer I’ve long trusted, explains current war happenings so I can understand. And, hopefully, you…

A Medical and Spiritual Journey Part Two The Book That Talked Back

A Medical and Spiritual Journey Part Two The Book That Talked Back

Day Fifty-two Arthritis, Medicine and the Spiritual Laws: The Power Beyond Science fell into my life through the agency of a used bookstore and…

A Medical and Spiritual Journey, Part One: The Verdict

A Medical and Spiritual Journey, Part One: The Verdict

Distinctly odd. So many ways to view memories. And myriad ways for a writer to use the material of her life. At the time…

What Can One Person Do? Reflecting on Katherine Stewart's Money Lies and God

What Can One Person Do? Reflecting on Katherine Stewart’s Money Lies and God

I sit with Katherine Stewart’s quite readable Money, Lies, and God: INSIDE THE MOVEMENT TO DESTROY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY and I don’t know what to…