“Stop eating the salad,” she told me. My friend’s mom was a nurse, and my friend explained to me that the “salad” we were being served was full of pesticides and insecticides and had no nutritional value whatsoever. Yes, we were being...
I couldn’t remember what I had said! A few years ago I was overseas for humanitarian aid purposes. Along with facing jet lag, we were doing manual labor (not digging wells, but also not just sitting in a desk). In other words, I was exhausted. On the bright...
“It’s 85 degrees at 7:30 am! There will be no hope for this day.” These were my thoughts as I left for work several years ago. I lived in a hot, humid state where one summer the temperature reached 117 degrees. I was used to blizzards and...
I was so thirsty! A couple of years ago I traveled to a sunny state for business training. Since the water at the hotel was not drinkable, I needed to purchase water to drink to avoid dehydration. Being without a car, I set out on foot to the nearest place that...
