My Health Adventure
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Seriously?
You need to go watch Jurassic Park again… My answer is NONE. Simple and straight to the point. My reason involves the following two main arguments: They may seem cute (the little tiny ones), and fascinating, but there is no way anything good could happen if T-Rex was in my neighborhood. Why post about dinosaurs…
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Surfing is hard…
Clearly, there are a lot of activities that are difficult to start in your 50s and one of them is surfing. For most of my life, I’ve struggled with balancing on everything from a skateboard to skis and now I can add a surfboard to that list. Ever since I was a child, I’ve had…
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Health maintenance stategies
I feel that the best way to maintain your health is to have a primary care provider. This gives you the opportunity to sit down with an expert to analyze your health and to discuss your well being in detail and to come up with a plan to make it better. Not all PCP’s are…
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Chinook Pass is about to bloom
I just returned from a trip up into the Cascades, east of Mt Rainier, and the meadows at Lake Tipsoo are about to erupt in wildflowers! I would guess that the best time to visit will be from 7-20 days from today for the full display of color and natural wonder. I wanderered a bit…
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Ultraprocessed foods
A fairly new concept in the scientific community is the categorization of foods into subtypes based on the amount of industrial processing that it takes to create the food. Every since 2010, Dr Carlos Monteiro, from Sao Paulo, Brazil, has proposed a tiered system based on his research. Basically, there are four classifications, called the…
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The North Skokomish River, Staircase, Olympic National Park
Backpacking is an adventure that forces you to utilize an entire toolbox of skills in order to have a memorable event. Not only do you have to be in good shape, with stamina for long haul activity, but you need to understand and be able to implement survival skills, planning, and gear use to avoid…
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Health Care Black Holes – insurance gaps
I’ve decided to post the problems when I see them: gaping, unjust elements of our healthcare system that need to be fixed. Now if we could just have a few politicians believe in doing the right thing no matter who donated cash to their political party machine… anyone… Bueller? I’ve decided not to put out…
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The Ocean
For me, when I want to unwind and relax, the coast is the ideal setting for the discipline of rest. There is just something about the sound of the ocean waves striking the beach in rhythmic time that calms my soul. So, last weekend we headed out for a weekend of camping at Ocean City…
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Lena Lake
Friends at work and I were chatting a bit and discovered that hiking is an interest and we all had June 19th off. The obvious next step was to organize a hike. We decided on a day hike and a entry level journey that would not overwhelm anyone. One such hike that I had never…
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Vacation
At this point in my life more than any other, I’m realizing that taking a break from work is so important for my own health. I’m on day three of a really relaxing vacation sitting on an awesome little beach on the coast of Oregon. My kids and I were trying to catch some waves…
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