Rants & Religion admin | 30 Jun 2009
The sap in my veins starts bubbling when some ignoramus like Billy Graham spouts nonsense that’s layered in irony thick enough to frost over the entire Statue of Liberty.
On June 30 of 2009, you see, in one of his more insipid syndicated columns Billy was asked by a reader why atheism was getting so popular.
One [...]
Health & Healthy Recipes admin | 27 Jun 2009
I received the email you’re about to read for healthy Bircher Muesli from Megan, a reader of my vegetarian recipe newsletter.
Here’s what Megan had to say:
Chet, thanks for posting John Tobe’s muesli recipe on your website.
I worked in a restaurant where we made Birchermuesli, although it didn’t contain as many ingredients as John H. Tobe’s [...]
Books & Health admin | 25 Jun 2009
Since 1993 I’ve read so many books on diet and nutrition I could literally fill a large garage with them.
In fact, if I hadn’t donated most of the health books I’ve read over the years to Goodwill, the CasaDay garage would be filled to the rafters, and my wife wouldn’t have any space left to [...]
Meditation & Music admin | 24 Jun 2009
For this week’’s meditation, we turn to the late, great jazz musician, Charlie Parker, who wrote…
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.
Your life is an on-going symphony of music, but I bet you’ve rarely slowed down and been still enough to realize [...]
Health & Healthy Recipes admin | 23 Jun 2009
From all my years as a natural health writer, I’ve managed to collect literally thousands of tasty, easy-to-prepare, and healthy recipes… recipes that aging boomers can (and should) eat and enjoy.
Today I’m going to start sharing some of these delicious, life-building concoctions.
With that said, the first Aging Boomer Special Recipe is for…
HEALTHY VEGGIE AND APPLE [...]
Meditation admin | 18 Jun 2009
For this week’s meditation on how to just be, we turn an ear to Robert Linssen, author of Living Zen, who writes…
Being incapable of conjugating the verb “to be,” we conjugate instead the verb “to have.” But as the verb “to have” can lead us nowhere for nothing lasting can be acquired, we seek indefinitely [...]
Health & Natural Remedies admin | 17 Jun 2009
One of the things I plan to do with this blog is to provide a variety of natural remedies for some of the more common ailments aging boomers are apt to contend with as they continue to trod down the long and dangerous road of life.
So, for the first natural remedy in this series, I’ll [...]
Meditation admin | 12 Jun 2009
For this week’s meditation on how to do without, we turn to one of my favorite Russian writers, Feodor Dostoyevsky, who keenly points out…
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
I don’t know about you, but as I grow older (I’m 61 years old as I write these words in June 0f 2009) [...]
Health & Veganism admin | 10 Jun 2009
In my other life where I try to earn a living, I spend a lot of time writing about natural health, nutrition, fitness, and related topics.
Because I was for several years a raw foodist and strict vegan, I occasionally stir up a hornet’s nest of anger from a vegan zealot when they read an article [...]
Misc. Diatribes & Rants admin | 09 Jun 2009
Here’s the letter I wrote a few minutes ago to cancel my subscription to what was once a decent weekly news magazine:
To Whom It May Concern:
The new Newsweek is totally unreadable, and I want to cancel my subscription immediately. I also want my money refunded for the remaining years on the subscription.
I NEVER in [...]