Something Albert Einstein once wrote to his friend Otto Juliusburger inspired me. “People like you and me, though mortal, of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.  What...

When I was ten-years-old, we moved back to Prescott, Arizona and away from the lush garden, fruit trees and road side produce stands that provided the bulk of our diet in the San Joaquin Valley.  We also...

Have you ever thought about how many things you grew up believing that you now know are untrue?  You don’t have to go back to bloodletting days to see how far science has come.  In the early...

When I was a small child, I was lucky enough to be poor.  So, we ate a lot of fresh vegetables from our garden, fruit from trees in the back yard, eggs from the chicken coop, fish from the freezer that...

Exercise, the very word conjures up a bad experience for me.  As a child I loved cruising on my yellow Schwinn and won neighborhood contests for the longest hula hoop sessions.  As a pre-teen,...

I didn’t do myself a lot of favors in the beginning of my quest to change our diets.  I thought I needed to cook every meal from scratch and I soon became exhausted.  Then we would ‘cheat’ by eating something...