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Between being a writer for a living and having this incredibly effusive personality, when my husband and I decided to move to Puerto Rico and start life anew living off the grid, there were a few aspects about this new ...

Every year, tens of thousands of people around the world are killed or badly injured in natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, floods and tornados, while millions more suffer some kind of significant property damage. In recent years, natural ...

It wasn’t all that long ago when learning a trade – such as being a journeyman, baker, craftsman, tailor or smither – in lieu of college (which of course was and still is unattainable to many), meant finding someone under ...

We have addressed before the threats posed by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the food production system. We say “in the food production system” rather than “in food,” because these GMOs, once introduced into the environment, may have effects far ...

In March 2011, I wrote an article called Role Reversal: Mom and Dad Coming to Live with You, which talked about readying your home for your parents to come live with you. This is a follow up to that article, ...

I’m writing this in an old executive-style office chair discarded during a departmental move during a past sentence I served in biotech. It’s a sturdy, reasonably attractive piece of leather; its main value, though, is in the range of its ...

We women are complex creatures aren’t we? Apart from the organs we share in common with our male counterparts, we get to have a whole different set that men neither needn’t deal with nor understand fully – unless and until ...

The only way evil can flourish is if good men do nothing. We can never be silent in the face of those wishing to destroy others. – Edmund Burke On Sunday evening, United States President Barack Obama announced the killing ...

In early April, Senators John Kerry and John McCain introduced a bill in Congress that would allegedly protect the privacy of Internet users from the unwanted advances of online marketers and retailers. Called the Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act ...

In this time of modern convenience, which includes the availability of pretty much everything to everyone, one thing lots of folks take for granted is the safety of their information. Once upon a time in a land far, far away, ...