A Summer of Solicitude

A Summer of Solicitude

The slow turning of a ceiling fan. Thin alabaster window shades sway in the breeze of an idle summer’s day. Beyond its gentle sway, I can see our garden blossoming like never before. And beyond that, a vast sea of sprouting corn that extends for miles in many...

Secret to a Peaceful Life

Secret to a Peaceful Life

“I wish I was as peaceful as you are,” he said as he shook his head. “You don’t seem to get upset about much of anything. How do you do it?” I smiled as I considered what my friend had just said. Surely, you have got to be kidding, I thought. But I knew he wasn’t. Of...

Bigger than the Sum of its Parts

Bigger than the Sum of its Parts

The first vitamin was discovered in 1925. In the following decades, the identification and ability to isolate many of the known essential vitamins and minerals, and their use to prevent and treat nutritional deficiency related diseases, began to be understood. We...