Sips, Snacks, and Healthy Hacks-A Nurse’s Blog
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I’ve been around over half a century… So when I think about inventions, I had to google it because there have probably been a lot of them. The term “google it” for one. The internet is up there as one of the most important inventions of the last 50-plus years, and computers as well. Computers…
Invented
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I’ve always thought of myself as a night owl. I naturally tend toward being awake later at night, when things are quiet and there isn’t much to do as far as errands, social events, etc., and I can just do my own thing. But then I started working night shift after graduating from nursing school.…
Night Owls Vs. Early Birds (Part 1)
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What’s a perfect day like? A perfect day is waking up, having coffee, time for praying and meditating… reading… writing… eating toast… going for a walk… writing and reading some more… drinking more coffee… eating pizza for lunch… going to a bookstore… time with family and friends… time for arts and crafts… going out for…
A Perfect Day
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There are 4 or 5 events that have a lot of significance to me. The birth of each of my 2 kids. My marriage. My divorce. The day I graduated nursing school in the middle of a pandemic. Those are the big ones. More than anything, those events show me how much I have to…
Significance… and Perspective
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Pasta. Cheese. Pepper. Pasta water. That’s it! That’s all that goes into this dish. I love it so much, I could probably eat it every day. Along with pizza. But that’s another story. I’m an Italian girl (mom’s side), and chalk up my love of Italian food and obsession with pecorino romano to my ancestors.…
Favorite Foods to Cook-Cacio de Pepe
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Oh, she was a beast. My first computer, along with the printer, the disk drive (which took my all-time favorite, floppy disks), and all the rest of the stuff, was huge by today’s standards. A lot of it was the monitor. But I had a lot of fun on that computer. We had a game…
Meet the Commodore 64/128
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I have to admit that I am not the greatest sleeper, and I rarely take naps. However, it turns out there’s a recent study in NeuroImage that talks about how even a brief nap can help us learn (see link below). But what if we aren’t good nappers? I remember way back in first grade.…
Grab Your Blankie, We’re Taking a Nap
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I had no idea that there were so many ways to boil an egg, mostly based on how you want it to turn out- soft-boiled, hard-boiled, etc. But I’ve been on this hard-boiled egg kick. It’s one of the easiest grab-and-go high protein foods for me, especially at breakfast time. And I need breakfast to…
Let’s Boil an Egg-Snowstorm Style
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I was never a big sports person. I’m tall though, so that makes everyone wonder if I played basketball. I tried, a little. One summer my mom shipped me off to basketball camp in the Poconos. I was terrible. I wandered around, wondering which group I was supposed to be in, because I was awful…
Sports
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Have you ever heard about those studies where they say that lottery winners are miserable? Apparently it is false (see Forbes link below). I was under the impression that once people won the lottery, they probably felt really great for a month or two, and then after experiencing all of the troubles that potentially come…
Lottery
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