Monthly Archives: November 2019
This is a busy week full of travel, adventure, and socializing with authors who write about adventure, science fiction, intrigue, suspense, family drama, animal science, and police investigations. I’m honored to be a Finalist in the Readers’ Favorite 2019 International Book Awards Contest with my latest book RIPPLES IN THE GENERATIONS. The award ceremony recognized gifted authors from around the world who received not only prestigious peer reviews but were recognized as credible storytellers in the publishing world. My book…..
Puppies are born with the instinct to make eye contact with humans. Dogs understand the significance of where we look and where we point to relay a command. Dogs learn by watching us. It’s not only what we say but what we do that garners a response from dogs. Just as dogs respond to eye contact our bodies respond to our daily routines. The seasons are changing from summer to autumn and since we’re looking toward the holidays it’s important…..
As a writer, I’m always thinking about words and as a nurse, I’m always thinking about bodies the two ideas seem to go together. Each of these entities has individual parts that contribute to making the whole a better unit yet if we take each part away from the whole the unit rearranges and doesn’t function. Books and bodies, each is a sum of the whole – a person needs to read the signs of their body to determine the…..
Microbiome (mikro . biom) – This medical term has it’s first known use in 1952. It’s the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space. Joshua Lederberg coined the term arguing the importance of microorganisms inhabiting the human body in health and disease. Simply, it’s the bugs that live on or in us. The bacteria, fungi, and viruses that inhabit a particular environment and especially the collection of microorganisms living on our body number about…..