My Super-Uplifting Self-Talk.

Tell your story …. blink, blink, blink, blink.

There’s nothing which proffers more pressure than a blinking cursor. No passive aggressive manipulative tactic more effective than a blinking cursor. Especially when you’re an unemployed empty-nester…

THE RULES

And so it came to pass that I needed to lay down the rules. I was not going to be gentle or obsequious. I was going to lay it down, like a hot juicy jazz riff, blaring out of a New Orleans bar. This was going to be a, take no prisoners kinda deal. And if he did not adhere, I would ship his geriatric ass off…

DIALOG WITH THE DEMON- Part two

“ I don’t need no stinkin’ badge” From the film- Treasure Of the Sierra Madre

As the days rolled on and his strength started to return with it came the same old greasy monster, I thought I’d tamed, it rolled back in, in all its greasy glory…

DIALOG WITH THE DEMON

“Do not carry on a dialog with the demon, he lies” THE EXORCIST”

And so he returned, his suitcase and two black plastic garbage bags in hand.

He came through my door, grinning and bobbing, thinking he had pulled the wool over my eyes, once…

Newly identified proteins give into age-related illnesses

Researchers at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology found six tiny proteins that can help to understand aging as well as a range of aging-related diseases, including Alzheimer’s, cancer and diabetes. (Cusabio produces protein…

The Art of Looking Down

The best advice I received from a childhood friend in North London was to look at an opponent’s feet when in the boxing ring. This sage advice came from his father, who was neither a boxer nor a student of the famous Ali shuffle. But the advice proved useful for me, especially when in…