November 2012 Issue Reversing Type 2 Diabetes With Natural Therapies By Constance Brown-Riggs, MSEd, RD, CDE, CDN Today’s Dietitian Vol. 14 No. 11 P. 28

http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/111412p28.shtml

Cooperative Catalyst

[This post originally appeared at Classroots.org.]

In the first part of his new book Present Shock, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff explains how we have come to a “now-ist” “presentism” resulting in “narrative collapse.” If I understand him correctly, Rushkoff argues that new media, social change, and technologies make traditional story-telling untenable. While we are accustomed to stories that fit the mold of Campbell’s hero, we are no longer able to use or enjoy them (or any new Star Wars movie?) because

1. We have become too self-conscious to consume narratives uncritically (see everything from Beavis and Butthead to MSTK3000 to Community). [These references and the following are Rushkoff’s.]
2. We have become more interested in current individual performance (see the itinerant NBA star) than collective group history (see baseball rivalries).
3. Our pop storytellers in news and entertainment have reduced (betrayed?) storytelling to the serial exploitation and…

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Rickshaw driver in Jogjakarta

Rickshaw driver in Jogjakarta

Photography

Photography.

My she-tiger, the eccentric Azumi.

Back to blogging

After a hiatus from blogging, I am back. Work, friends, the offline world has stolen me from blogdom for six months, but I think I am back. There have been times when I wish I had never quit blogging but I guess I needed some perspective and some prioritising and value-checking to do. 

I am not sure what shape the blog will take from down on, but having a tete-a-tete with the hereafter will definitely have an impact on what I think and say and how I say it.

 

PS. This was shown when I pressed the Publish button:
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” Barbara Kingsolver

We’re covered with microbes inside out, and it’s crucial that we are.

“Minimize doubt. Find a way—a method, a trick, a psychological tic to dissolve doubt’s potency. You will most likely always be working alongside it, so best to have some useful way of repelling it. I write against it, a little like diving into a cold pool of water—scary but invigorating. Generally, it does the trick. But if that doesn’t work, get up and do something else. Forget about it for a while.
Be gentle with yourself—you will find so many reasons not to be. But it’s most likely your kindness toward yourself (I’m not saying self-indulgence) that will help you alongside the rigors of constant, daily writing.
I can’t speak to a practice that is anything less than daily. It’s the only one I know, so it’s the one I peddle.
By writing daily, you make it your life.” – Anne Germanacos

ph.d. in creative writing

As writers, we live double lives: lived once in the world of others, and again, in the quiet of our own minds. It takes a certain amount of will and courage to leave with regularity the circle of humanity in order to enact a kind of theft, which is one aspect of what the writing life seems to be.

Anne Germanacos is the author of the short story collection In the Time of Girls (BOA Editions). Born in San Francisco, she has lived in Greece for over thirty years. Together with her husband, Nick Germanacos, she ran the Ithaka Cultural Studies Program on the islands of Kalymnos and Crete, and taught writing, literature, and Modern Greek. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared in over eighty literary reviews and anthologies, including Dzanc’s Best of the Web 2009. She and her husband have four…

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Life Lessons 101

Life Lessons 101.