Below is an ace-high post for those of us who are Computer Cowboys and Cowgirls. If you also spend a ridiculous amount of time saddled up to a desk, you probably fret as much as I do about not getting  enough activity.  At the end of a long, hard ride, I feel pert’ near worthless.   (So no...

Facts are stubborn things. - John Adams A few nights ago at the movie theater, I was walking into a door when a young man, apparently, walked in front of me.  I say apparently because there was a great crowd and, pretty much, it was each person for himself or herself.  A man in a plaid coat  and ...

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by rising above them. - Charles Caleb Colton My mom worked in the school system practically the entire time I was in school. She sought and accepted the job because she wanted to have the same hours as me - weekends, holidays, a...

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”  - James Baldwin During certain months of the year, I can tell you right where you’ll find me every Tuesday night: Most of my family and I will be enjoying healthy snacks, sitting in front...

Hello.  You know me.  I’m Joi, your chatty and happy blogger.  I have one husband, three daughters, three cats, an invisible bulldog named Duchess (don’t judge me), and I love animals beyond all reason. I possess a happy addiction to coffee, tea, Diet Dr. Pepper, and chocolate. I love...

Congratulations to the Science Commons team and everyone involved for this amazing project. It's great seeing the application of Creative Commons "architecture of openness" being applied in increasingly more sophisticated and diverse ways. Sharing data is really hard and really important and this is...

Misty Trees Art Print I love this - tea and the environment in one post! On one of the walls in our kitchen, I have an antique “hanging shelf” which actually includes 4 shelves. It’s filled with different boxes and canisters of tea: Green tea - delicious and filled with antioxidant...

I love irony. Truth be told, I stand gawking at its beauty every time. A few weeks ago, I made a few decisions in the section of my life that I call “work.” Why the quotation marks? Because I know enough to know that my “work” would be PLAY in the lives of those of you who da...

A few days ago, my male cats (Bo and Svenn) were helping my in the yard.  The disaterous ice storm here in Kentucky did a real number on trees, and since we have a virtual forest in our yard, we had limbs and branches down like you wouldn’t believe.  It honestly looked as though a tornado ha...

by Mona Morstein, ND Today, we are all surrounded by unclean air, polluted water, processed food made with thousands of chemicals, pesticides sprayed on our homes and offices, xenoestrogens leaching from plastic, tobacco smoke drifting over to you–if you eat, drink or breathe on Planet Earth, ...