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My Wheat-Free Life, Part 1
I’ve stopped eating anything that contains or is coated with wheat flour because wheat gives me stomach aches and I don’t like pain.
Wars of the Buttercream Roses
Well, the McCombs Candida Plan is effectively over. The last part of it is that I'm supposed to stay off dairy products until Feb. 21st, but actually I’m eating whatever I want at this point and it's not good. Since Juldmort my anxiety level gradually lessened until...
Releasing Another Layer (Cake)
Previous post on this topic: McCombs Candida Plan Day 53 I've been on the 16-week (112-day) McCombs Candida Plan for 71 days and yesterday I completely rebelled by buying a Pepperidge Farm frozen cake and trying to eat it (after thawing it, of course). But a strange...
Socially Divided
Social media is not both good and bad. Its effects are quite destructive.
Coronavirus and Addiction
I published this story on Medium.com: I live alone and I started using again. The coronavirus isolation has caused a perfect storm for addicts struggling to stay on the wagon. Follow me on Medium.com where I write even more stuff.
Broke Up with Amazon.com
Hey, since I stopped buying things on Amazon.com I've reduced my spending and started getting out of my apartment more. I didn't foresee that not getting things from that website would cause me to get more exercise, but duh: if I have to leave my home and go to a...
Hurdle
I'm in my first real test since my three-day fast. Yesterday I felt depression symptoms coming on, possibly because of prolonged lack of sleep (I'm working with my health practitioner to fix this problem). In the afternoon I badly wanted a nap, but had to keep going....
Please Put Your Damn Cell Phone Away
Maybe I’m just old. So please respect old people by not looking at your phone!
The United States of Excess
Last night at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs talk I heard one of the most engaging, yet disturbing, speakers I've ever seen. Robert Paarlberg, author of The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism, talked about what he...
A Story about Norco
It was just five days. Her prescription was for 20 pills to be taken every six hours. After the doctors in the emergency room couldn't figure out what was causing the intense pain in her abdomen, they gave her the prescription and told her to go home. It wasn't...
12-Step Programs Are Not Great
The April 2015 issue of The Atlantic has an article called The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous. In the article Gabrielle Glaser, author of Her Best Kept Secret: Why Women Drink - And How They Can Regain Control, discusses the ways that Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)...