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We Are Shrinking

We Are Shrinking

by | Jun 6, 2019 | Health-related behavior

I’m shrinking. I bet you are too. As we get older, we tend to lose bone, cartilage, and muscle mass. These losses in the spinal area cause us to shrink in height. After age 40, an average person loses about one cm of height per decade.  This height...
Embarrassment

Embarrassment

by | Jun 6, 2019 | Coping, Emotions

Have you had embarrassing experiences? Want to hear some of mine? When I was a teen, I met a woman in her 20s who was on the run from another state for some small crime. We hung out a few times and then I got metal braces on my teeth. When she saw me in them, she...
Learning from Experience

Learning from Experience

by | Jun 1, 2019 | Human Thinking and Behavior

Ten years ago I went with my three brothers to a Mexican restaurant in a small town near where we had lived as children. I ordered a tostada, a stiff, toasted tortilla with beans, cheese, and other ingredients on top. I added hot sauce, and the tostada looked...
Words We Dislike

Words We Dislike

by | Jun 1, 2019 | Human Thinking and Behavior

I read that many people dislike these words: moist, bulbous, fester, mucous, vomit. I did a Facebook-pal survey of disliked words and found a huge variety, including discharge, phlegm, and unpack [as in unpack an idea]. Some of the folks I asked dislike filler terms...