Why The Elliptical Is Your Best Friend?
UNITED STATES—Building up stamina and agility is not an easy thing, but exercise is the key to maintaining a healthy body. Some love to utilize the treadmill, others are fans of the bicycle, I however, am a fan of the elliptical. Look at it this way it’s a bicycle in the air, it’s a treadmill without all the excessive...
Trick-Or-Treating Discouraged By Experts
SAN FRANCISCO—An official from San Francisco’s COVID command center says certain halloween activities including trick-or-treating are not banned, only discouraged.
Eater SF, a dining-centric publication, contacted the city’s health officials who say in an email, “trick or treating is strongly discouraged because the sharing of food, candy, and items is risky,” and that “it can also be difficult to maintain...
Hard Knocks
UNITED STATES—Samuel Johnson, the British wit and man of letters, said that he never knew a man with a toothache to be a philosopher. Well, this concept I tested now and then during my time at 1980 Estrella Avenue. I suffered periodic molar aches and would just tough it out. They seemed to come and pass like rain clouds....
How Inadequate Training Can Kill Construction Workers
UNITED STATES—Working on a construction site can be quite hazardous as there is a lot of heavy machinery as well as dangerous elements such as electricity, sharp objects, and more.
For these reasons, in order to ensure employee safety, it is imperative that proper training be given to employees before they begin working on the job. Here are just some...
Beverly Hills At Night
UNITED STATES—Oh yes, Beverly Hills at night. To my delight, based on an exhaustive sampling of three people encountered walking an a recent Friday night, there predominates a single category of walker: the tipsy kind.
In contrast, the people I have encountered during my morning walks break down into three main categories, and they reinforce a harsher vision of humanity:
--The...
Late Bulbs Require No Wintry Chill
UNITED STATES—Spring bulbs are making a comeback from their unceremonious internments last autumn. Some of the earlier sorts are visibly extending foliage above the surface of the soil. A few narcissus, daffodil and crocus are already blooming! Now it is time to plant late bulbs, or summer bulbs, which start to grow through warm spring weather, and bloom for...
Flowering Fruit Trees Without Fruit
UNITED STATES—All of the popular fruit trees produce flowers. Otherwise, they could not produce fruit. The stone fruits, such as almond, apricot, cherry, peach, plum and prune, bloom very impressively this time of year. (Stone fruits have single large seeds known as stones. Almonds are the large stones of small fruits that resemble peaches.) The pomme fruits, such as...
Overworked Plants May Recover Slowly
UNITED STATES—Landscaping and growing houseplants really is no way to bring nature closer to home. If it were up to nature, most of our gardens would be relatively bare. Most of the few native trees are less than ideal for home gardens. The few native annuals and perennials with colorful flowers bloom only briefly. Almost all native shrubbery is...
Day 17: Out Of Sight
UNITED STATES—Let’s go to something very simple and helpful to hang onto: the non-negotiable concept of out of sight. If there are foods for which we have no preference in the 30 pounds in 30 days plan, better off to keep then out of sight. Out of sight, out of mind. And this diet is a diet for both...
Should You Avoid Talking About Your Ethnicity?
UNITED STATES—I ran into a post from @theshaderoom on Instagram that discussed how Demi Lovato recently shared her DNA ancestry results on social media and received some backlash for it. According to the post, it turns out that the starlet has Spanish, Irish, British Scandinavian and Native American ancestry. Additionally, Lovato revealed that she is also 1 percent African....