Marlene Dotterer's Blog, page 20
June 25, 2015
Plant-Based on a Budget: How I Ate Well on $5 a Day
Here’s an important lesson for good food on a very limited budget. It really can be done.
Plant-Based on a Budget: How I Ate Well on $5 a Day.
The Time Travel Journals: Shipbuilder, Chapter 11
Chapter 11
November 1906
Arms full of rolled up plans, Casey dashed along the lower catwalk of the gantry, shivering in the November cold. She’d just left Tom and several foremen on the gantry, and now she hurried to get the plans back to Ham so Mr. Carlisle had them for a meeting. As she rounded a corner, though, Trouble appeared, in the overbearing person of Mike Sloan. He stepped in front of her, holding up a hand to stop her headlong rush. She skidded to a stop, struggling to keep hold of...
June 24, 2015
Tulane spreads ‘food as medicine’ gospel to med schools nationally | NOLA.com
This is a perfect course for medical schools. Huzzah to those schools using it!
Now if we could just get them to include natural childbirth…
Tulane spreads ‘food as medicine’ gospel to med schools nationally | NOLA.com.
June 22, 2015
The Time Travel Journals: Shipbuilder, Chapter 10
Chapter 10
September–October 1906
Casey dashed past the Number Seven slip, with a stack of logbooks for the office. She met up with Tom at an intersection. His grin grew wider as he shifted the machine parts in his hands, tucked some rolled plans under an arm, and handed her a few sheets of paper. “You’re on the way to the office, aren’t you?” he asked hopefully. “Just drop these on my desk. I’ll get to ’em later.”
“Sure,” she replied, following his example and placing them in a pocket. That...
June 18, 2015
Physician’s Weekly for Medical News, Opinions, Features Articles
Too many women face authoritarian procedures and care providers when they go into labor. This is one of the biggest reasons why I teach natural childbirth. I want women (and their partners) to understand that they have the right to consent or not consent to any medical procedure. In this case, the video clearly shows the women repeatedly saying “no” to an episiotomy. Her doctor essentially commits assault against her while she is helpless to stop him.
This article is by a surgeon who viewed t...
The Time Travel Journals: Shipbuilder, Chapter 9
The Dry Dock at Harland & Wolff Shipyards Chapter 9
August 1906–September 1906
Casey had to collect reports and deliver supplies to all the departments at the yard, and it turned out there were a lot of departments. Tom Andrews was Head of the Designing Department, which evidently involved a lot more than just drawing pictures of ships. They drew plans for every part of a ship, from the tiny screws used in a switch plate, to the huge funnels that graced the skyline. Tom worked with all the ot...
June 15, 2015
The Time Travel Journals: Chapter 8
Chapter 8
June 1906
At the end of her first week, Casey found a doctor to examine Sam. She paced outside their flat, wondering why it was taking so long. Somehow, the longer the exam, the more worried she was that something was seriously wrong. How long did doctor exams take in 1906, anyway? It wasn’t like he could take x-rays or anything.
Eventually, her private eternity ended, and the door opened. The doctor motioned her in and she anxiously looked over at Sam, resting on his couch. He mana...
June 13, 2015
Michael Pollan: How Cooking Can Change Your Life
This is a great talk, given by Michael Pollan somewhere in England in 2013. Please, if you hate to cook, or don’t have time to cook, take 20 minutes to watch it. Not you people who already cook all your food and never touch a refined grain. You can watch if you want, since you might know someone to pass it on to. But mostly I want the folks who use Costco or Taco Bell or whatever, on a regular basis. This is FOR you.
You know, if you hate to cook, I totally get that. I hate housework. I hate...
Micahel Pollan: How Cooking Can Change Your Life
This is a great talk, given by Michael Pollan somewhere in England in 2013. Please, if you hate to cook, or don’t have time to cook, take 20 minutes to watch it. Not you people who already cook all your food and never touch a refined grain. You can watch if you want, since you might know someone to pass it on to. But mostly I want the folks who use Costco or Taco Bell or whatever, on a regular basis. This is FOR you.
You know, if you hate to cook, I totally get that. I hate housework. I hate...
June 12, 2015
The Time Travel Journals: Shipbuilder, Chapter 7
Chapter 7
June 1906–July 1906
If she had not already known where Harland & Wolff Shipyard was located, Casey could have found it by following the noise. Even in the midst of town, it was possible to hear a rhythmic banging coming from Queen’s Island. The sound increased with every step as she approached the gate shortly before eight the next morning. The yard was crowded with the second shift, hundreds of workers, several of them young boys, moving through the gate, or loitering as they wait...
