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I think our grandmothers were right all along.
While I consider myself a skeptic, someone who tries to be rational and objective and who likes to rely on scientific studies to come to new conclusions (or harden up old ones!) I do thin that our grandmother’s were onto something. Well, many somethings. The first is that I can remember my grandmother telling me…
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From books to experience
There is a house, one enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it? A school. -the ancient Sumerians. I began my university experience a bit later than most north Americans. I was 22 when I enrolled at a local community college on the foothills of the Rockies. I was fresh off the boat…
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The Humours of Whiskey
I cannot stop humming Hozier’s rendition of this Irish drinking song. The first time I heard it, I was rendered speechless which is ironic because I have been sober (from whiskey) for over six years. Whiskey was my closest friend and also my nemesis. But I started abusing it after I returned to academia back…