Unhealthy at Every Size and a Path to Metabolic Health
The fat acceptance movement frequently makes the claim that weight is not an indicator of health and BMI is a form of […]
The Hilaria Thomas Baldwin Accent Controversy and the Real Reason People Love to Hate Hilaria
Before the dawn of the internet, it seems people could con their way to infamy with a strategic move to a new […]
Seeming Paradox and the Pursuit of a Both/And Lifestyle
“I’m an animal activist. Many people say that I’m a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won’t […]
Modesty and Mystery: Some Thoughts
Few can deny that the feminine form invites the eye. Nowadays, this is likely taken exclusively as a comment on personal sexual […]
Musing on the Virtuous Life
It was great fun to appear on Pat Oedy-Murray’s “The Virtuous Life” radio program on the Annunciation Radio Network out of the […]
Hope in Action or No Hope At All
“Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And […]
Suffering Does Not Discriminate
Norman Cousins’ Anatomy of an Illness is a book as relevant today as it was upon publication in 1972. Cousins has a […]
Freedom in living beyond the illusion of control
Grasping at control is nothing new in the human experience. However, in a culture infused with unhelpful ideas and composed of isolated […]
Norman Cousins’ “Anatomy of an Illness” and Taking Laughter Seriously
The Medieval scholastics observed that risibility, the propensity to laugh, is intrinsic to man. In other words, to be human is to […]
The Two Worst Things That Can Happen to a Child
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Gardenis now considered a children’s story, but the work originally appeared as a serial for adult readers. […]