YOU ARE CARRYING AROUND A BOWLING BALL.  Really. And I’m only exaggerating slightly.  Up to 9 pounds of our body weight is bacteria, most of which resides in our guts.  Bacteria outnumber human cells 10 to 1.  That’s a LOT of little microbes crawling in, around, on, and through our cells.  Luckily for us, most of them (~85%) wear white hats. Only 15%...

SPACE TRAVEL? Why not?  CURE CANCER? Sooner than we think. FEED THE WORLD? Absolutely. All of the things that seemed so distant and impossible even 100 years ago have already come to pass, so I don’t see any reason why these seemingly impossible things can’t come to pass, too.  To me, it’s not a matter of if, or when, but which ones we want to...

SOMETIMES GOOD THINGS HAPPEN!  And yet, we tend to remember only the bad ones.  Every day is filled with these yucky events:  we lose our car keys, forget a meeting, our printer runs out of ink right before we need that document. Went down to Laguna Beach last month and put money in the parking meter next to my car, not mine (wasn’t paying attention), so got...

ELECTIVES vs CORE SUBJECTS strongly suggests a value judgement, don’t you think?  But it wasn’t always like that. When we are little, our parents seem equally impressed with our ability to draw a sun with stick rays as they are our ability to write our names.  Just about anything we do, including pooping in the toilet, is greeted with big smiles of...

MOTHER’S DAY, like most holidays, can be joyous or sad, and often both.  If all of your children are happy, healthy, can stand on their own two feet, and love you, it’s a happy day!  Even if your children live many miles away, (one of my sons is in South Africa today), if you know they love you and you have many happy memories together, it’s a...

SATURDAY SALON QUESTION:  How responsible are we for what happens on the other side of the globe? BANGLADESH is not a convenient place to do business.  No good roads, unreliable electricity, and not exactly the most politically stable.  So why has it become so popular as a manufacturing site for clothing?  Walmart thinks it’s a great place to do business....