Here is an inversion of the famous phrase that encourages people to "Think Globally, Act Locally," a slogan attributed to the late Patrick Geddes, a Scottish biologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner: "Think Locally, Act Globally" because, when you travel abroad (for work or leisure), your body does not...
A trip to the ballpark is a summer rite of passage, something so indelibly a part of our culture that I can no more mythologize this experience – I can no more romanticize the sounds and sights of a big league stadium – because the material belongs to too...
Gardens and gardening are as much a part of summer as the obligatory ceremonies and images of the season: Evening barbecues, pool parties, baseball games, fireworks, fireflies and afternoon getaways to amusement parks and days of youthful innocence; the iconic "Fresh Lemonade" stand, with its makeshift sign, paper cups,...
Being outside and basking in the final weeks of spring, a time when even the smallest backyard is a social venue, play area ore barbecue station, is an unofficial kickoff for summer. The backyard, with its concrete surface or tomato garden or swimming pool or spacious lawn, trees and hedges,...
In a few weeks, there will be a mass exodus—we will hear the cheers and hosannas of tens of millions of children—as they race toward the exits, to waiting parents, bus drivers and crossing guards, at the end of the last day of school. Many of these boys and...
If there is a misnomer that plagues our community – and by community, I mean our fellow enthusiasts of healthy living and sound nutrition – it is the belief that organic is a synonym for expensive. That it is a lifestyle label, a stamp or certification (or even a gold-embossed seal) reserved...
Earth Day is an increasingly solemn occasion, as it should be. The moment this event becomes the second half of a twice-yearly excuse, along with St. Patrick's Day, to wear something green, we will have converted a cause for education into yet another crass means of commercialization. Please understand,...
Despite its association with the carefree days of youth and the lazy months of backyard barbecues and pool parties, summer is not a season for patients with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes to rejoice. As I emphasize in this previous post about diabetic itch, diabetes, with its many complications...
With spring having finally sprung, as the last molehills of formerly mountainous amounts of snow (in Boston and throughout New England and Upstate New York) begin to melt, and as the formal rites of a new season of baseball begin today, tens of millions of Americans will soon take...
Too many Americans suffer from an ailment they can feel but not see. This "phantom menace" is, with all due respect to fans of Star Wars and others familiar with the prequel of the same name, a much greater threat than anything George Lucas made fans endure for 133 uninterrupted minutes of mediocre...
