tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:59:03 +0000gastritissummerulcernutritionvacationespressoendoscopyCalifornia"Education is the key that unlocks locked things." -- The Onionhttp://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)Blogger386125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-6838646398509463882Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:59:00 +00002011-08-28T22:05:11.455-04:00I wrote this little paper for the biology class that I took over the summer as a pre-requisite for my upcoming masters' program. Dan suggested that I post it on my blog. Why not? The first two laws of thermodynamics address the constant amount of energy available in the universe, or, otherwise stated, the amount of energy in a closed system. The First law of thermodynamics states that energyhttp://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/2011/08/short-treatise-on-thermodynamics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-5440437380914555509Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:06:00 +00002011-02-21T12:22:24.952-05:00Dan and I had the strangest experience the other day. For Valentine's Day, we have a tradition of going to the Bombay Club Indian restaurant for their Valentine's Day extravaganza where they do a once-a-year gala and pull out all the stops -- a tremendously indulgent experience that we look forward to every year. Last year, we enjoyed their new digs in the South End, even if we missed the http://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/2011/02/valentines-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-4543209212557887224Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:14:00 +00002010-12-27T10:45:18.680-05:00Christmas this year was a whirlwind as usual, but it carried the blessings of tradition and ritual to buffer to the blow of what could otherwise be crazy. The last few years, Dan and I have had Christmas Eve with my mother's family, Christmas morning with his mother's family, Christmas night with my father's family, and the day after Christmas with Dan's father's family. It sounds a little http://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-2010.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-7852297632784709895Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:10:00 +00002010-09-30T09:31:33.378-04:00Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders FriesCourtesy of the New York Times, this quick little article looks at why even America's health care professionals aren't eating their veggies. We're issued the tall order of eating 4 and a half cups (considered 9 servings) of fruits and vegetables a day, I'm not sure that even my veggie-lovin' self eats that much.On that note, I'm sure that you all http://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/2010/09/are-you-eating-your-veggies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-3964003274977081886Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:36:00 +00002010-09-10T09:54:06.343-04:00Courtesy of WebMD6 Best Foods You're Not Eatinghttp://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/2010/09/alarmist-titled-article-with-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-5778189146372108854Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:39:00 +00002010-08-22T10:16:11.123-04:00Dan and I are not big home improvement people. Sure, we like to get things settled, and we're not made out of money, so that has taken the form of us doing things ourselves. It's not hard; it's just time-consuming and exhausting. We tend to stay away from exhausting, time-consuming things that aren't inherently pleasurable. That having been said, we have a mouse problem. After multiple http://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/2010/08/home-improvement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-1862722799112156985Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:06:00 +00002010-08-19T16:08:55.757-04:00But Will It Make You Happy?She had so much.A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people. Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend treadmill.” So one day she stepped off.Inspired by books and blog http://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/2010/08/courtesy-of-new-york-timesa-fun-article.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-6738222241245051428Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:20:00 +00002010-08-12T12:24:20.785-04:00daN and I spent a good bit of time this weekend outside. When I got home from work on Friday night, I did yoga on the grass in the breezy sunshine, which was a fabulously grounding way to start the weekend. The next day, we went for a good long walk around Jamaica Pond and enjoyed the flowing water, the wind, and even some young baby duckies. That night, we enjoyed a picnic dinner on Boston http://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/2010/08/making-good-use-of-outdoors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-3125470984314171455Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:30:00 +00002010-08-07T15:33:58.841-04:00I love doing yoga in the sunshine on the grass. Something about it brings me a real sense of peace that I'm hard-pressed to find somewhere else. When I am doing yoga in the sunshine on the grass, that's the only thing I'm thinking about. It's important to have stuff like that in one's life.http://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-love-yoga-in-sunshine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-2187339003730068789Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:04:00 +00002010-07-17T18:16:52.854-04:00http://spokeschicken.blogspot.com/2009/02/httpimgs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (spokeschicken)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220349.post-482668961922201053Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:07:00 +00002009-02-01T10:17:11.387-05:00