A friend of mine recently came down with a hideous, unexplained rash on his arm. It kept him awake at night, itching and burning. I met him in the local health food store, lurking like a leper by the peaches, with big bags under his eyes.
Our local health food store is also the local community [...]
All the parents of teenaged girls I know in California have daughters in crisis. Several are in treatment for drugs, alcohol, mental health and/or eating disorders. One started cutting. Another has a pending felony charge, related to things she did on meth. These are not the daughters of people struggling against appalling conditions in the [...]
In another post I wrote about honesty and common respect for other people’s property. I had the impression that I remembered a time when there was a lot more of that, so I did some homework and discovered a STAGGERING FACT: When I was born, in 1962, there were roughly half as many people on [...]