The previous blog talked about reflexive blinking which occurs automatically to protect the eyes and is controlled by centers in lower...

After taking yet another group photo where my eyes were closed, I decided it was time to learn more about the science of eye blinking....

“The more you know, the more you can create. There’s no end to imagination in the kitchen.” ~ Julia Child. (For those who do not bake,...

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ~ Oscar Wilde. Ah, January. I am still reeling from the herculean...

When I was in high school, I had a keen interest in nutrition: What food was considered healthy? Was there a schedule of eating I should...

Woodpeckers: a human head butting a tree at woodpecker speed of about 20 times per second would be concussed. But woodpeckers have...

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”~ Dr. Seuss. Creativity has...

“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their...

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color,...

Once upon a time, when our brains were very young and trying to figure out the world, it took in lots of information from that world and...

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ~ Frederick Douglas. Like so many other things our brains do with seemingly little...

"See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train; Vapors, and Clouds, and Storms." ~ James Thomson....

“Gratitude bestows reverence...changing forever how we experience life and the world.” ~ John Milton. You may think that the time for...

“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” ~ William Shakespeare. Halloween comes around and suddenly everyone...

"The strongest have their moments of fatigue.”~ Friedrich Nietzsche. Ever come home from work feeling like your brain is fried! Can’t...

“Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.” ~ Rumi. It is raining! We, desert dwellers, greet any rain with relief and joy, but...

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.” ~ Jane Austen. The dry hot desert season is here,...

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of...

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke. You wake up with the sun - unexplainably...

I bet as mid-February rolls around you have one thing on your mind – chocolate. Or, maybe love? Nope. Chocolate! Ah, what is it about...