I'm not trying to make light of someone else's ailment, or be disrespectful, unsympathetic, or judgmental, because I watched this whole process 8 times in a row growing up, with my mother and all 7 of her sisters getting cancer. And I freely admit, it's easy to make "backseat driver" comments about situations we have [...]

"Things are never as bad as they seem, you just gotta learn to see the forest for the trees" –Huey Lewis   There is a 222 acre nature park named Tualatin Hills near Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton Oregon, and I started walking through it to get to work, and at lunch, since the weather [...]

Just sharing a pic (as I occasionally do)                                                                                                               ~stay healthy~

I'm not trying to disrespect scientists and researchers, I'm sure they are hard working people just like the rest of us. It's perhaps their superiors, and all the "higher ups" in the medical industry, scientific community, and drug industries, and their "Nutty Professor" mindset that I am taking issue with. This quick post came about [...]

"Life is….. that thing that happens while you are waiting on the things you want out of life to happen" –Doug Wallace (me) ~stay healthy~ (and in love with the "here and now")

"When the gun clicked, all I could hear was my coach John Smith telling me ‘Stay patient, stay patient, let the finish line come to you,’ … That’s exactly what I did." –Carmelita Jeter ~stay healthy~

Man how time flies. Although Jimmy Valvano's greatest moment before 1993 might have been the NCAA Championship last second victory against Houston in 1983 (video below), he would have one even bigger. It happened exactly 20 years ago, most sports fans will never for get former North Carolina Basketball Coach Jimmy Valvano's famous speech upon [...]

Just sharing a pic (and a quote)                                                                                       ~stay healthy~ "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." -Lao Tzu

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I sometimes regret that I don't speak enough on my blog against the hazards of eating Genetically Modified Foods, or GMO's. Just for the record, I am a conspiracy theorist at heart, and a person who's natural inclination is to venomously "Rage Against the Machine". However I don't wanna spend the rest of my life [...]

I have a confession to make……………. As much as I use the words , "Zen", "Zen-Master", "Zen Philosophy", "Zen-bla-bla-bla", I don't have a very still mind. Perhaps both good and bad, since I love my active mind, and love the reality of my current "world view", and future possibilities that my mind creates for me. [...]

~stay healthy~

I think this entity called God, or Allah, or the Tao, or whatever we choose to call it, speaks to all of us in various ways. For me, I get the gift of simple logic. Not very dramatic like a burning bush, but whatever works. Growing up watching my mother and all 7 of her [...]

It's funny, I thought when I had to leave Chicago back in 2009 after the economy collapsed, it would be of short durtation, when an out of state opportunity came up in my technical field. Man!!!! that was almost 4 years ago!!! My "Short Story" has got pretty "Long"!!! Anyhoo, I know now home is [...]

The time has come, I'm ready for the next level in my health and wellness journey. I've done some good work in 2012, established myself as the "King of Research", even healed a few things on the ol' bod via my research, logical thinking, and God given insights (I'm not special, we all get these [...]

Will Smith has definitely seen the light Not that I equate myself to Will in any way, I'm rarely am in awe of any man or woman, but I am inspired by people often, and I always acknowledge it when it happens. Will and I seem to have been on the same track, going from [...]

Seattle, is it my last stop on this crazy 4 year journey before I get to the Caribbean? The Tao, a.k.a. the "Way of Heaven" will decide all that. The rest of my story is still "Unwritten". Eight straigt days of rain, wow!!!! Fortunately I have a song on the iPad that always uplifts me [...]

Trust me ladies, it begins and ends here with exactly what he is saying. Every [real] man says it differently  or words it differently, but it is ALWAYS the exact same formula. And Boris, the renaissance man that he is, could say this in four languages if he needed to. Take notes ladies!!!!

……..I'll explain myself. Methinks the Mayan Calendar represented a celestial "long cycle" as I call it. On that fateful day December 21, 2012, the solar system moves into the beginning of another long cycle to last 5125 years. I don't think the world will explode or get hit by an asteroid (and if it does, [...]

~stay healthy~

"that is all"  ~stay healthy~

Just some parting "Food for Thought" on the last day of the Olympics. I got so much inspiration from the games this year,  From Allyson Felix finally getting her gold, to Gabby Douglas making us all feel a little more innocent again , to the double amputee from South Africa  Oscar Pistorius, to Tahmina Kohistani, [...]

In my recent research on my new superfood Gac (a.k.a. Fak Khaao), I learned that there are an estimated that 250,000 to 300,000 species of flowering plants, and regrettably, only about 10% of them have been investigated for commercial or medicinal potential. My classic historic example is the dreaded Scurvy disease that plagued sailors in [...]

Not that I have really got to do this yet, except for a dozen or so times in my head, but I think a date of just hanging out in the kitchen, preparing some food together, drinking a little wine and eating some "while we cook" appetizers could be a helluva fun date. But I [...]